Fergie reveals all: Why I turned down Abramovich and Chelsea

Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed that he turned down the chance to manage Chelsea following Roman Abrahamovich’s take over at Chelsea in 2003.Information Guide Nigeria

Speaking to interviewer Charlie Rose on American network PBS, Ferguson said that there is no bigger challenge than managing Manchester United.

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He said: ‘I think he’d shake my hand if he came in now. [He] has got his energy and his purpose back so maybe that was a turning point in a way.’

‘They used an agent to approach me when Abramovich first took over the club,’ he said. ‘And I said no chance.’

‘I always come back to this point – why would you leave? Where is the bigger challenge? And the thing about challenges is, once you have won something, you can’t live on that. Not at Manchester United – you have got to win the next one.

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‘And that’s the challenge. Maintaining that consistency of winning which is a mentality that I have had. Every time we won the League, we would celebrate the night – the next day was another day for me. Where are we going forward?JAMB Result

‘So therefore when clubs came to me and offered me jobs, I thought to myself, “Where is the bigger challenge?” Creating history at United or trying to create somewhere else when I would have to start again and build on the philosophies I had when I first came to United.’