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The blowout fight meant that Sir Alex Ferguson wanted David Beckham gone for good. This was understandable; what was hard for Beckham to swallow was the manner in which Ferguson treated him. For example, as he was on the outs, Beckham’s coach told him he wouldn’t be starting in a Champions League game. Beckham walked away upon hearing the news and was surprised that Ferguson allowed him to do so. “If the gaffer had still cared about me as a person or as a player, we’d have had a [fight] there and then. He wouldn’t have let me walk away from him like that,” the star player later concluded, as noted by The Athletic.
As detailed in “Beckham,” Becks only learned that Manchester United had sold him to another club, Real Madrid, through the media. “I called [Manchester United executive] Peter Kenyon and said, ‘Is this true?’ and he said ‘Yes,’” Beckham said at the time, according to TalkSPORT. “I said, ‘Can I speak to the manager?’ He said ‘No.’”
For Beckham, who called Ferguson “a father figure” and “one of the most important people in my life,” it was devastating to have his coach ice him out. “It obviously hurt. I couldn’t watch [Manchester] United for three years on the TV,” he admitted.
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