Inside Cantona's transfer from Leeds to Man Utd - by the men who made the deal

Eric Cantona’s move to Manchester United was instigated by a phone call from Leeds managing director Bill Fotherby.

Edwards could not believe his luck. He said: “I was friends with Irving Scholar, the former Tottenham chairman, who lived in Monaco. Whenever we talked he would rave about this lad Cantona. “Bill was almost too honest for his own good. I called Alex and told him of Bill’s enquiry about Irwin. He said no, as I expected.

“Bill said, ‘We’re open to selling him, but we have one problem at our end. He’s very popular. The crowd love him. We’ll get slaughtered. Howard will do it, but only if we do it very quickly.' I said that was no problem.”Edwards: “What do you want for him?”Fotherby: “I can’t do a million! I told you I’d get slaughtered. I’d get lynched at that price. I can’t go any lower than £1.2m.”Edwards: “You can say what you like.

“He came with Jean-Jacques Bertrand from the PFA in France. So we had a cup of tea, and Jean-Jacques went to the table with the chairman.

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