LONDON: Alex Ferguson admits he was surprised to see his former Manchester United star David Beckham sign for Paris St Germain.
Beckham had been looking for a new club since leaving LA Galaxy in November and snubbed interest from several Premier League clubs and other lucrative offers from around the world to join the French outfit on transfer deadline day.
Ferguson didn't think Beckham would come back to the Premier League as the boyhood United fan had previously said he could never play for another English club.
But the United manager was still shocked to see the 37-year-old former England captain unveiled by PSG on Thursday.
"I was surprised. I didn't see that," Ferguson told MUTV. "I didn't think he would join an English club.
"He always said he wouldn't after his career with United and he was true to his word. But I don't think anyone saw PSG coming."
While Beckham completed his high-profile move, English football was engaged in a typically frenzied finish to the January transfer window and Ferguson had no intention of being drawn into the mad scramble for new players.
"It is an absolute shambles," he said.
Referring to television coverage of the final hours of the window, which features reporters standing outside the training grounds and stadiums of all Premier League clubs, Ferguson said: "There is a young reporter being mobbed by 30 kids. It is humiliation. I am sure all the managers are glad it is all over."
- AFP/jc
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