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no current intention to make an offer for Manchester United.

The problems had their genesis a long time ago, so it's not that the problems specifically related to new management. They're trying hard at cutting the cost structure, introducing new products, but I don't see what they could have done to have avoided this.

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

I know the St. Louis team and fans wanted me to stay, but [management] didn't try hard to keep me -- that's what I felt in the negotiations.