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Ryan added: “So I came back and I couldn’t get a hold of Les, Les Kershaw is the one I normally spoke to when I had seen a player. He was in Portugal. There was no-one here except the manager [Sir Alex Ferguson] but I thought: ‘I don’t want to disturb him’. It was a Sunday, but it’s bugging me all the time. I’m thinking: ‘Wolves will be speaking to him or one of the German teams that were there’. Eventually, I just thought: ‘I’ll just phone the manager’. So I phoned him up.
“He said, ‘What about Johnsen, what do you think?’ I said: ‘Yeah, he looks alright but they have got a young centre-forward, who looks a real goalscorer’. So I talked to him and talked to him and I told him what had happened. I said: ‘I’m worried that Mark McGhee is at the game, and he’s telling me he needs a centre-forward, so you might lose him’. He said: ‘Okay, leave it with me’. I didn’t know he would do anything.
“Next thing I know we had signed him. I went to training, start of the new season, first day, and he’s there. Someone had told me we had signed him. Brian Kidd comes up to me and said: ‘You’ve done it now, haven’t you?’ I replied: ‘What?’ He said: ‘You’ve signed a schoolboy’, because Ole looked like a little boy. I thought: ‘Oh, don’t tell me I’ve made a mistake’.
“Anyway, I don’t think it was a mistake in the end. He did alright, didn’t he?”
You can listen to the full Jim Ryan episode of UTD Podcast from Monday, on iTunes, Spotify, Deezer and all of your favourite podcast platforms.
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