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Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed his regret at passing up the chance to sign Joe Hart for £100,000 earlier in his career.

Hart, 24, joined Manchester City from Shrewsbury in 2006 and has become England's first-choice goalkeeper.

But Ferguson told BBC Radio 5 live: "I could have bought Joe Hart for £100,000 so we all make mistakes."

The Scot also said he would like an ambassadorial role at United after another "two or three years" as boss.

In a wide-ranging interview, the United manager claims Hart will be an England regular for at least another decade and is the best goalkeeper the country has produced for the last 20 years.

After struggling to replace Peter Schmeichel, who left Old Trafford in 1999, Ferguson eventually signed Edwin van der Sar from Fulham in 2005.

Van der Sar retired last summer and although Ferguson has defended the purchase of David de Gea , many United fans will be frustrated to hear that Hart could have been their player.

The United manager claims he could have picked the youngster up from Shrewsbury before he eventually moved to rivals City for an initial £600,000 in 2006.

Ferguson said: "I've no doubt [that Hart will be England goalkeeper for the next 10 years].

"If you look at the England goalkeeper situation for the last 20 years, I would think he's easily the best."

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De Gea for 20 million.

Great business.

Cool story Fergus! How about you go piss your pants again you drunken old fool!

Mase wrote:Cool story Fergus! How about you go piss your pants again you drunken old fool!

Hahaha! This.

Now all Taggart has to do is to run a similar critique over the rest of his squad..."Why didn't I buy Micah, Vinnie, Joleon, etc.

...and we can wonder why he never bought Ben Haim, Kolarov, Samaras, Bianchi etc.

For only £2, I could have bought the £140m winning lottery ticket. But I didn't.

I could have bought some Apple shares in 2001 for $15. But I didn't.

I don't think he was just that interested in Joe. I think he was a name on a list that someone gave him and he wasen't interested to pay such an amount of money for a young player and of course, Taggart made some goalkepper choices over the years that made me pmsl (Taibi, Van der Gouw, Bosnich, Carroll, Timmy Tourrete and so on). To be fair, i was very upset when Sven took Kasper out and replace him with Hart.
The best thing that Hughes made at City was to sent Joey on a loan to B''gham.

PeterParker wrote:I don't think he was just that interested in Joe. I think he was a name on a list that someone gave him and he wasen't interested to pay such an amount of money for a young player and of course, Taggart made some goalkepper choices over the years that made me pmsl (Taibi, Van der Gouw, Bosnich, Carroll, Timmy Tourrete and so on). To be fair, i was very upset when Sven took Kasper out and replace him with Hart.
The best thing that Hughes made at City was to sent Joey on a loan to B''gham.

Don't forget Barthez!

When was this so called mistake made as we signed him for 600k when he was 18? I think mcbaconface is losing it and cannot understand what is fact and fiction.

His biggest mistake is to continue breathing; just stop FFS.

I hope they do give him an 'ambassadorial' role when he retires. I remember how having Busby hanging around put extra pressure on the new managers & generally fucked them up in the early 70's.

What's he trying to do, inflate Joe's head and hope it explodes duringa match? The cunt never changes and shouldn't be commenting on our players or England players for that matter. It wouldn't surprise me if the whiskey-nosed twat has being playing mind-games with them as well, just to bring us down that little bit more.

senile fucking TRAMP.

Bet he wishes he'd signed DeGea for £100k. Dozy drunken cunt

I thought this thread was going to be about Darren.