10 Players Who Rejected Man Utd
3. Paul Gascoigne
Gazza even promised Fergie he'd be signing for United before the Scot went on holiday. But whilst he was catching some rays (try and get that mental image out of your head), Spurs nipped in, bought the Gascoigne family a house to sweeten the deal, and before you could say dentist's chair, Gazza was a Tottenham player.
Though Gascoigne won the FA Cup with Spurs in 1991, his time at White Hart Lane was ruined by injury, and the eccentric Englishman later admitted he should have joined United, and that one of his greatest regrets was not doing so.