Manchester United defender Nemanja Vidic has lifted the lid on his negotiations with Liverpool.

"I was talking with Liverpool," Vidic told the Independent. "I was very close to Fiorentina, then Liverpool and after that Manchester United. Definitely I made the right choice. At that time it was a hard choice but when you look at it now with the three years we have won many trophies, I play regularly. It's a great team. When you have the players around you who are so professional it's the right environment.

"Liverpool started the meetings, then they stopped. If it was about money I could have got more somewhere else. When I left Russia I just wanted to develop professionally. If I had stayed at Spartak Moscow I would have had more money than at United because they offered me more money to stay. Professionally, to go to Europe, United was the best choice."