WHEN FERGUSON MISSED GARETH BALE.

When the Welsh footballer Gareth Bale was a 17 year old prodigy a defender at Southampton, Alex Ferguson wanted him , and usually he gets the footballers he wants.Mainly because of the club and the success after 27 years. But it did not work out then, the manager of Southampton was George Burley, but the talks failed.

Gareth Bale was brought by Tottenham Hotspur for 10 million pounds.

Another player Ferguson missed out on Edwin Van der Sar when he left Juventus, that time Juventus got Buff on for a record amount from Pharma.Then as Ferguson had the 1998 world cup goalkeeper Fabian Barthez , Edwin Van der Sar joined Fulham.