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Opinion: Fred's the real deal for United

The season before I joined, my agent phoned me and told me that United were showing some interest to get me over to England. At the time, like everybody probably knows, I didn’t feel I was ready yet to sign, to make that step up. First I wanted to establish myself in Holland and at PSV and become an international. Hopefully after that I could think about going abroad to the UK, to United.

The first time around, we said we were happy to wait. PSV gave me a new contract over there, but sometimes things can go very quickly in football.