Official Site of Man U · Mar 7, 2022
Could Stam have joined United sooner?
In three full seasons with the Reds, the Dutchman never failed to win the league title and he was also a key member of the side that completed an unprecedented Treble in 1999.
Stam’s high-profile exit from Old Trafford in August 2001 has been much-discussed over the years, but fewer people know that Jaap could have joined us from PSV Eindhoven a season earlier than he actually did.
Jaap was a highly regarded 25-year-old centre-back with the Dutch champions in the summer of 1997 when Sir Alex Ferguson and the club initially came calling and he recalls the chase for his signature in the latest episode of the UTD Podcast, which is available to listen to exclusively on the United App now.