Why 'f*cking great' Veron flopped at Man Utd
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6-second readThe Red Devils broke the bank to sign the midfielder from Lazio, but his stint at Old Trafford ended up being a disappointment
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Veron does not hold any ill feeling towards Ferguson, though. On the contrary, he acknowledges that he didn't do enough to become a staple of the side.
"At some points, I wasn’t able to give him everything he expected from me consistently," Veron added to FourFourTwo. "He got it in a few matches but not in others, and if you want to be a great player, your game has to be stable.
I couldn’t deliver it at Old Trafford." Ferguson, meanwhile, accepted in his autobiography that he never figured out the best way to utilise Veron: "Although there were spectacular contributions, Veron just couldn’t play in our team He was an individual.
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