Evra reveals Ferguson’s secret Man Utd plan before retiring and his agent’s loss of faith

Patrice Evra reveals Sir Alex Ferguson told him that he would stay for “another ten years” at Man Utd before leaving at the end of that season.

The Red Devils have struggled to hit the heights of their time under Ferguson in recent years after the Scot retired from football management in 2013.

Man Utd have failed to come close to winning another Premier League trophy in that time but former left-back Evra has revealed that Ferguson was planning on staying another decade before a disagreement with the board.

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On United’s current struggles and what Ferguson told him weeks before leaving, Evra told Betfair: “I never thought we’d have to wait this long to lift the Premier League trophy again.

“It was really sad to hear that Sir Alex Ferguson was leaving, because two weeks before the end of the season, I remember Ferguson came to me and said: ‘Patrice, I see in the press they’re saying I’m going to leave, but trust me I’m going to be here another ten years.’

“He told me we need to win the Champions League again, and he needed two players. One was Cristiano Ronaldo, the other was Gareth Bale.

“It was something like £200m to get both of those two players at the club at the time, and United, the board, didn’t agree with that. Now you can see we’ve spent even more money than that and look where we are.

“That’s why it was really painful, that last league trophy. Of course, I didn’t expect to wait for so long.

“After David Moyes came, it didn’t work out, so we changed managers. We need consistency, we need to trust and I don’t want to become a club where every year or two years we change the manager because we won’t achieve anything by doing this.

“Nobody expected that, none of the players. I didn’t expect to leave the club either. So there were many decisions that were massive surprises for us after the last league trophy.”

Evra won five Premier League titles, three League Cups and a Champions League during his time at Man Utd but he admits he had a shaky start at Old Trafford.

The former Man Utd defender added: “I remember I had Liverpool, Inter and Manchester United and my agent said to me ‘those clubs are interested,’ I told him that I would pick United, and when he asked me why I said: ‘Because of Cantona, he’s a role model.’

“Then, I didn’t really know what it was about, I was…