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Published 18:31 12 Oct 2017 BST
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However, if Liverpool had signed Sheringham a few seasons earlier, United's greatest victory would not have played out as it did.
According to Roy Evans, Liverpool manager between 1994 and 1998, the forward was keen on a move to Anfield, but the club's board at the time wouldn't sanction the transfer. They considered a 27-year-old Sheringham to be "too old" to have any potential re-sale value.
"Biggest transfer regret? I'd say Teddy Sheringham," Evans told The Liverpool Way.
"It was a boardroom decision not to sign him because of his age. They thought at the age of twenty-seven or whatever it was that he was too old. Not too old to play, but too old to be a good investment. He went on to play a number of years with Manchester United, and then back to Tottenham and was very successful. I spoke to Teddy before that, and since then, and he wanted to come, it was just a boardroom decision and as a manager you just have to take that. It was a fair answer, they just felt it wasn’t right. Although they were proved wrong by how Teddy played for United. You just take that on the chin though."Sheringham joined United when he was 31 and played in the Premier League until he was 41. At 27, he would have been a brilliant strike-partner for Robbie Fowler at Liverpool and proved a great signing for Ferguson.
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