Southgate denies rejecting Man Utd winger Nani for knockdown price

Gareth Southgate denies turning down the chance to sign Manchester United winger Nani while in charge of Middlesbrough.

Agent Barry Silkmen claimed Boro rejected the chance to buy Nani when he was at Sporting Lisbon for a fee of £3.5m in 2006. Months later he signed with United for £17m.

Southgate told the Evening Gazette today that the claims are not true.

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Comments (4)

this is true about fee 4 the transfer but manure decided 2 pay over the odds 4 the muppet as per usual

how can he agrre to the fact if he would have agreed the Miidlesbrough heads would be pointing fingers and yelling at themselves what have we gained by appointing such an idiotic manager who doesnt know even the C of CLASS...