Paul Gascoigne was the hottest prospect in the transfer market in 1988 but after sending Sir Alex Ferguson off on holiday with a move to Man United agreed, he had a sudden change of heart.
Sir Alex Ferguson was in Malta when he read the bad news - a holiday cut short in the worst possible way.
Managed by Willie McFaul, the Magpies had been meandering in the lower half of the First Division but they had a star in their ranks by the name of Paul Gascoigne. The then-20-year-old was famously fuelled by Mars Bars and Newcastle Brown Ale but ran United's midfield trio of Bryan Robson, Norman Whiteside and Remi Moses ragged.
“I went up to the North East one weekend,” Waddle told FourFourTwo recently. “Terry had given me an additional day off and said that if I saw my pal up there, to have a word about him potentially coming to Tottenham, because everyone knew he was leaving Newcastle. In what is now an infamous series of events, Scholar attempted to woo Gascoigne with several add-ons, including a house for his family, a white BMW for his dad and even a sunbed for his sister. And so the in-demand midfielder swerved away from Manchester and headed down to London.
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