Rio Ferdinand: "Modric, I remember speaking to him, I said, 'Are you leaving [Tottenham]?' He said, 'Yeah, I think I'm going to go' but he wasn't sure at the time where he was going. I said, 'Listen, you've got to come to
#mufc.' He said, 'Yeah I want to be the first Croatian to play for Man United, I want to be that guy, can we make it happen?'
But it didn't happen. I spoke to David Gill and the manager [Sir Alex Ferguson] at the time had already agreed with Shinji Kagawa I think it was โ I think that was the year, I'm sure it was." [
@RioMeets]