Geoff Shreeves

But even though you've never experienced it, you experienced players coming into your club

players leaving your club, will it create the whole thing?

So let's start with you first of all.

Was there ever a point or was there ever a conversation where another club came in for you that you were aware of?

Was there ever a point, now obviously, you know, the club you supported as a boy and also a hugely successful club, but was there ever a point where you thought, this is great, but I'd like to experience something else different in life as a player?

Of course, transfers have always been part and parcel of football, a huge part of football.

But when you said it didn't compute with you, say, for instance, when David Beckham was thinking about leaving, did you find it harder when it was somebody who was a member of the class of 92 when they were leaving?

Did it feel like one of the family was leaving?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's 20 years on.

But at the time, you say you couldn't understand it.

Even though you remain incredibly close as friends, did it cause friction in the friendship?

Oh, there's always the question.

It's for weeks and weeks and weeks in the media.

We're forever asking.

So you're prepared for it.

It's not like it's a shock, is it?

Did you, as a group of players, regardless of who it was, if ever there's a player, as you say, you know about it, there's talk of it in the dressing room, getting a move somewhere else, as a group or as a senior group of players, do you ever...

try and whether it be through serious conversations or a bit of mickey taking try and talk somebody out of a move say let's stay here stay here is is there a line that obviously you don't cross because you're all individuals and you do have to do what's right for you personally but even even as a collective have you ever tried to say you know got together as a group and said come on stay here

How would you sum up, or what would you say defines, in your period of the club, Sir Alex Ferguson's transfer policy?