Thought we were only a couple of days away from signing him, no?
maybe in freddie shephards dream reality, the same place where we could actually afford him without crippling the club financially (which he did anyway with owen)
But the bid was in: we were only waiting on Rooney accepting, which he was close to doing by all account until Man Utd came in at the 11th hour.
all the bid did was flush out fergie earlier than he would have wanted to, we never had a hope of getting him so long as fergie was interested.