But Fergie insists Bayern Munich will not sell the France international this summer.
United, Barcelona and Real Madrid have all expressed an interest in the 26-year-old
“We didn’t try to buy Ribery, we explored it in a nice, quiet way when David Gill was at one of his meetings with Bayern in March,” said Ferguson.
“They told him, ‘absolutely no chance’ and the one thing you can say about Bayern is that, when they say something, they mean it.
“When we negotiated with them over Hargreaves, at the beginning they said ‘no’, but they also said that, if it ever changed, their minds, we’d be the first to know.
“It was exactly the same this time. There is no way that they will sell Ribery.”
