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“[They are] not the Manchester of before,” Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said in August 2005, after the player was linked with a move to United. “If I were a player, I would laugh about it.”

“I just can’t imagine that he would go to Manchester United,” Rummenigge said in October 2005. “What would speak for Manchester and against Bayern Munich? Nothing at all. If I were a player I would definitely not go to Manchester.”

“Much as I want him to stay, I feel he will probably leave,”