Alan Shearer opened up about his Manchester United talks

Alan Shearer has revealed he asked Sir Alex Ferguson if he could take Manchester United's penalties during failed transfer negotiations. The former Newcastle striker made the move to his hometown team in 1996 despite interest from United. Shearer was interviewed by Gary Lineker on a retro version of BBC's Match of the Day, looking back on how the transfer to Newcastle happened - and how the United move didn't. "I sat down with both Kevin Keegan and Sir Alex on the same day, in a house in Cheshire, believe it or not," said Shearer. "I spoke to Kevin Keegan in the morning, talks had gone really really well, very positive. And then the Newcastle contingent left and the Man United contingent came in, and that was Sir Alex. "And Sir Alex's first question was 'am I seeing you first, or second?'. And I said I saw Kevin this morning, and he said 'basically I've got no chance, then'. In other words he wanted to see me first and he was disappointed he didn't do that. But I thought the talks went extremely well, I was really impressed with what he had to say." Source: MEN

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