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Rooney spoke to Fergie about signing Ozil from Wolfsburg, as we know he didn't end up signing him but he lauded Rooney as a future scout if I remember correctly... which leads me to my point- These conversations do go on behind the scenes and usually Rooney is involved in them.
No mate. It went like this :
Ferguson said: 'Ozil was not on our radar. I said that to Wayne at the time.
'We signed Chicharito [Javier Hernandez] that summer. My thoughts at the time were a Rooney and Chicharito partnership
'That was a fair prospect for us to look at.
'When Ozil was at Werder Bremen he played wide right initially then they played him off the front.
'That type of player was not necessarily on our radar.
'I told Wayne, "Leave the signing of players to me".
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...Mezut-Ozil-THREE-years-ago.html#ixzz39KUd66Ny