FORMER Manchester United star Lee Sharpe found out Barcelona were interested in signing him while in a HOT TUB with Jordi Cruyff.
Left winger Sharpe, 52, spent eight years at Old Trafford between 1988 and 1996, playing 244 games and scoring 33 goals.
Ex-Manchester United star Lee Sharpe found out about Barcelona’s interest in him years laterNews Group Newspapers Ltd
Jordi Cruyff, right, revealed to Sharpe that his dad, Johan Cruyff, left, wanted to sign the Man Utd man for BarcelonaAFP
He won three Premier League titles, two FA Cups, the League Cup and European Cup Winners’ Cup during his time under Sir Alex Ferguson.
He also went on to play for Leeds, Sampdoria, Bradford and Portsmouth.
But the opportunity to make the switch to Spanish giants Barcelona never materialised, although Sharpe knew nothing about it at the time.
It was not until he enjoyed a jacuzzi with fellow ex-Man Utd man Cruyff that he discovered the Catalan side had been monitoring him.
Jordi’s dad, Johan Cruyff, was manager of Barcelona between 1988 and 1996, an eight-year spell which saw him claim a plethora of trophies including four LaLiga titles and the European Cup.
And his son revealed to Sharpe that he was on the Barca manager’s radar as a potential transfer target.
Speaking to Instant Casino, Sharpe said: “I was chatting to fellow former Man United player Jordi Cruyff once in a jacuzzi of all places, and he was asking me why I never made the move from United to Barcelona.
“I didn’t know what he meant, I had never even thought of that as an option before he said that!
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“I asked him what he meant, and Jordi then told me that I had been at the top of his father, Johan Cruyff’s, shopping list for a spot in his Barcelona team for a couple of years while he was manager there.
“Apparently, according to Jordi, a phone call had been made to Manchester United by Barcelona, but I never got told about it.
“Who knows what may have happened if I’d have known about it!”
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