Kenyon hits out at snub speculation
Manchester United chief executive Peter Kenyon has denied that the club have been snubbed by a host of international stars.
With a £24million deal for Juan Sebastian Veron likely to go through next week and a meeting with Patrick Vieira in the pipeline Kenyon claims everything in the Old Trafford garden is rosy.
"Listening to all the speculation you'd think we were a club on the precipice, that it's the end of the United we know," he told The People.
"After winning the Premiership so convincingly I just didn't expect this fixation, but I suppose one failure in Europe has made us a target.
"According to some people, we've been snubbed by four of the five players we've supposedly gone for.
"It seems no one wants to come to Manchester United anymore and the selective strengthening we were planning has suddenly turned into a scramble to make wholesale changes - but that's nonsense.
"I totally refute this rejection scenario because the truth is we haven't been turned down by one player we've seriously been in for.
"Players like Bixente Lizarazu, Lilian Thuram, Emmanuel Petit, Zinedine Zidane and Juan Sebastian Veron have all been mentioned, but we have not had one rejection from a player who has said he's going somewhere else instead of United."
