Barcelona forward Robert Lewandowski has revealed he wanted to sign for Manchester United in 2012 to work under coach Sir Alex Ferguson.

The move to Old Trafford, however, did not materialise as his then club Borussia Dortmund blocked the transfer.

Lewandowski would go on to sign for Bayern Munich in the summer of 2014 as a free agent.

"To Manchester United I decided and said yes," he told the BBC . "I wanted to join Manchester United, to see Alex Ferguson.

"They [Dortmund] could not sell me because they knew if I stayed they could earn more money, and that I could wait maybe one or two more years. But it is true that I said yes to Manchester United."

Lewandowski, who had also been a Blackburn Rovers target before he arrived at Dortmund from Lech Poznan in 2010, has mixed

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