If Sir Alex Ferguson is to be believed, Peter Kenyon was the man who questioned whether staying back an extra night in Lisbon to sign an 18-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo was actually worth it.
‘Is he that good?’ Ferguson recalled the one-time Manchester United chief executive saying, after the player in question had so tormented United’s John O’Shea in a 2003 friendly game that the manager wouldn’t leave Portugal without a deal done. Ferguson also expressed doubts that Kenyon, currently leading a consortium hoping to buy Everton, had actually carried out his instructions to phone Arsenal and ask if Patrick Vieira could be signed.