{"id":610679,"date":"2026-09-09T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/610679\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:40:10","slug":"leave-me-alone-ryan-giggs-reveals-how-116m-man-city-star-elliot-anderson-snubbed-his-desperate-man-utd-transfer-plea-on-the-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/610679\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Leave me alone!&#8217; &#8211; Ryan Giggs reveals how \u00a3116m Man City star Elliot Anderson snubbed his desperate Man Utd transfer plea on the golf course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:start\">During the interview, Giggs pivoted to another intriguing anecdote involving former Man City manager Pep Guardiola. He recalled a dinner attended by several footballing heavyweights, including Sir Alex Ferguson, where the topic of United&#8217;s squad came up. Giggs was curious to know which player the serial-winning coach admired most within the ranks of their cross-town rivals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">Giggs recounted the conversation from several years ago, noting that the Catalan coach was incredibly decisive about who he would want in his own team. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">&#8220;There\u2019s about eight of us, so he [Ferguson] sat me next to Pep, this was about, I\u2019m going to say about eight or nine years ago,&#8221; Giggs recalled. &#8220;I\u2019ve gone to Pep and says, &#8216;you know, who do you like at United?&#8217;, he went, &#8216;Well, who do you think?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I went, De Gea? He went, no. Luke Shaw? I was just like, no. He said &#8216;the best player at Man United, Marcus Rashford. I would take him tomorrow&#8217;. And that just made me [think], what\u2019s he seeing Pep? And that was obviously as a centre forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the interview, Giggs pivoted to another intriguing anecdote involving former Man City manager Pep Guardiola. He recalled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4488,276570,85,46,2617,3157,132997,2619,276571,105],"class_list":["post-610679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-champions-league","tag-e-anderson","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-manchester-city","tag-manchester-united","tag-manchester-united-vs-manchester-city","tag-premier-league","tag-r-giggs","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}