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Ex-Manchester United chief: 'Arsene Wenger was our top managerial choice'
Former Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards has revealed that Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger was the club's top choice to replace Sir Alex Ferguson in 2002. Ferguson announced his intention to step down at the end of the 2001-02 campaign, only to then backtrack on that decision and remain in place at Old Trafford for another trophy-laden decade. United chiefs had a shortlist of names to take over from the Scotsman, though the man they wanted most - long-serving Arsenal manager Wenger - rejected them out of loyalty to the North London outfit. "Our first choice was Arsene," Edwards wrote in his autobiography, Red Glory. "Since joining Arsenal in 1996 Wenger had been greatly...
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