Cristiano Ronaldo once phoned two Manchester United transfer targets and convinced them to join the club ahead of bitter rivals Arsenal.
"He called my phone, and I'll never forget that,” the current Botafogo man beamed.
"My phone had all the zeros and I was saying 'Who is this? I've never received a call like this.' I answered, and I knew him because I'd trained with him before. "He just said: 'Ah, !’ I ran to my bus saying: 'It's Ronaldo, it's Ronaldo! He's calling us to speak!'"He just said: 'It's raining here, it's raining here in Manchester, like you know.' He said: 'I call to say to you guys: sign for Manchester United. I know you are going to like it,' et cetera.
Meanwhile, Fabio only received one Premier League medal in 2010-2011 and spent time on loan at Queen's Park Rangers. He was sold to Cardiff City in 2014.Arsenal were United's big rivals in the 2000s and Ferguson didn't want to lose out on two young stars to Arsene Wenger.The Red Devils moved quickly to snap the brothers up from Fluminese and they both went down as successful transfers.Daniel is a social editor for SPORTbible after moving from the writing team.
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