straight to your inboxGareth Bale made his Premier League introduction at Old Trafford but is destined to never play for Manchester United."We were disappointed in Southampton at the time because we were first there, but they never came back to us," Sir Alex Ferguson said of Bale's 2007 switch to Tottenham. "It was not the boy who turned us down, it was Southampton."Bale, played on the left wing by Martin Jol, was so blistering on his Tottenham debut against United in August 2007 the visiting fans heckled Ryan Giggs with cries of 'You're just a s**t Gareth Bale'.Even at the height of their powers United were fighting a losing battle with Real Madrid.
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