Manchester United icon Paul Scholes has revealed how Inter were the only other club that showed an interest in him.
Scholes spent his entire professional career at United, even coming out of retirement in January 2012 to play for the Red Devils again.
However, the former England midfielder claims that loyalty did not stop Inter from making an audacious approach back in 2000.
“I was never ever made aware of any team coming in for me,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
Manchester United icon Paul Scholes has revealed how Inter were the only other club that showed an interest in him.
Scholes spent his entire professional career at United, even coming out of retirement in January 2012 to play for the Red Devils again.
However, the former England midfielder claims that loyalty did not stop Inter from making an audacious approach back in 2000.
“I was never ever made aware of any team coming in for me,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
“I did have one phone call off an agent, Bryan Robson’s old agent, he rang me while we were away at Euro 2000 to ask me if I would be interested in going to Inter Milan but that’s the only phone call I ever had.
“I never heard anything after that and the manager never said anything to me.
“I was playing at my boyhood club, I was a Manchester lad, we were winning trophies all the time.
“If the manager said to me that he didn’t want me I would definitely have gone if there was a big club abroad who wanted me but there was never any need to ever think about Barcelona, Real Madrid or AC Milan because I was at the biggest club in the world anyway.
“We didn’t win as many Champions Leagues as we should have but we were every inch as good as those teams, if not better.”