Arsenal
How Arsenal, Wenger lost the opportunity to sign United legend Vidic
Former Arsenal scout Goran Milosavljevic has revealed that Arsenal and former manager Arsene Wenger lost the opportunity to sign Manchester United legend, Nemanja Vidic.
Vidic who was a Red Devil player would have been an Arsenal player in 2005 before he was allowed to slip off.
Milosavljevic said he had spoken personally to the player in 2005 and introduced him to Wenger who was in charge of the team.
The Arsenal Balkan scout from 2001 to 2007 told Tribalfootball that Wenger instructed a trusted scout Francis Cagigo to access the player in Serbia’s international games against Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina but because the Vidic failed to impress in those games, they turned him down.
According to him, He had first watched the former United player in a game against Italy and concluded that the Serbia international would be fit for the Premier League and Arsenal.
Efforts made by Milosavljevic to convince the French boss about Vidic after scout Francis Cagigao had made negative comments on him because of the performance in the games he watched failed.
He had pleaded with Wenger because the player was ready to move from Spartak Moscow to London but United eventually got him some months later for just £7m.
Vidic did not only succeed at United, but he also contributed to the club’s Premier League and Champions League titles.
