The inside story of how the Cristiano Ronaldo to Manchester United transfer unfolded
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the United transfer latest, team news, match updates and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free When a contact messaged on Friday morning to say Cristiano Ronaldo's transfer to Manchester City was 'gathering pace', it was impossible not to think of those fleeting deadline day reports in 2008, when Sky Sports News speculated that Tottenham striker Dimitar Berbatov had been 'kidnapped' by Sir Alex Ferguson on the Manchester Airport tarmac.
My tweet detailing the Ronaldo information ended with a jocular reference to the 'abduction' 13 years earlier. Little did I know that Sir Alex Ferguson, almost eight-and-a-half years into retirement, had intervened again.
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