
LONDON (AP) — Alex Ferguson lined up Pep Guardiola as his potential successor at Manchester United yet the Spanish coach didn't call him before taking the Bayern Munich job.
In his new book ''Leading,'' Ferguson said the club ''established that several very desirable candidates were unavailable'' before David Moyes was hired in 2013 for an unsuccessful 11-month spell in charge.
After Guardiola left Barcelona in mid-2012, Ferguson had dinner with the former Barcelona coach in New York but, as his own retirement was not on the agenda yet, there was no ''direct proposal'' for the Spaniard to one day take over at United.
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