When Manchester United announced the signing of goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard on November 27, 2010, Sir Alex Ferguson was excited by the Dane's potential.
Lindegaard was 26 at the time but that is still considered a relatively young age in terms of a goalkeeper's development. "Anders is one of the brightest young 'keepers in the game," said Ferguson. "The challenge at Manchester United is always to look to the future and, in Anders, we have signed a goalkeeper of great presence and even more promise." READ MORE: I left United too early and regretted it - now I run a shop for a living READ MORE: I was a failure at United - it will always be the biggest regret of my career Lindegaard, who is now 40, spent five years at Old Trafford.
However, he failed to assert himself as the club's No.1, watching the end of Edwin van der Sar's United career and the first few seasons of David de Gea's at Old Trafford.
The former goalkeeper, who decided to hang up his gloves in November 2022, only made a total of 29 appearances during his United career, with his busiest season proving to be the 2012/13 campaign, marking Ferguson's last in charge and the last season that United won the Premier League title.