Sir Alex Ferguson first approached Pep Guardiola about succeeding him as Manchester United manager before finally settling on David Moyes, the club legend wrote in a new book.
In his new publication "Leading," to be published on Tuesday, Ferguson says he met with Guardiola before his final season as United boss began in 2012.
At that point, Guardiola was starting a year-long sabbatical after leaving Barcelona. And despite Ferguson's entreaties, he decided to sign on at Bayern Munich the following summer.
"I had dinner with Pep Guardiola in New York in 2012, but couldn't make him any direct proposal because retirement was not on my agenda at that point," Ferguson wrote.
"He had already won an enviable number of trophies with Barcelona... and I admired him greatly. I asked Pep to phone me before he accepted an offer from another club, but he didn't and wound up joining Bayern Munich in July 2013."
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