Alex Ferguson is set to make an audacious £20m swoop for Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard.
'Gerrard could be the long-term successor to Roy Keane, whose United future is hanging in the balance. Ferguson knows the big stumbling block is whether a Liverpool captain would dare move to that club’s most hated rivals.
Gerrard, 23, would risk being forever damned by Kop fans in much the same way Sol Campbell has been by Spurs fans since moving to Arsenal.
But that will not stop Fergie from testing the water and the United board is prepared to back him in one big summer swoop.'