It was the summer of 1995, Michael Jordan had just come out of retirement and John Major was prime minister. Meanwhile, Manchester United had sold Mark Hughes, Paul Ince and Andrei Kanchelskis, so that's what fans will remember. "Three players have departed.
The trick is always to buy when you're strong, so he needs to buy players, you can't win anything with kids," pundit Alan Hansen said after United's opening day defeat of the 1995/96 season, reacting to the three sales.
Hansen was unaware that a special group of players would eventually ensure that those very words would go down in history. Although it wasn't clear yet, Sir Alex Ferguson was overseeing something special happening at Old Trafford.
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