Adams: Arsenal ambition stopped my United move Tony Adams has revealed he rejected Manchester United due to Arsenal's ambition.
Adams won a plethora of trophies in North London but was approached by Sir Alex Ferguson, with the two clubs dominating English football for the best part of the decade. “Sir Alex Ferguson came in for me,” Adams told Sky Sports. “But I wouldn't leave and I said to the chairman: 'Have we got ambition at the club?' "He said 'don't worry, we are injecting a lot of money and we are going to go for it'. "I stayed and the rest is history - Dennis [Bergkamp] came and Nicolas Anelka, [Patrick] Vieira, Manu [Emmanuel Petit], Robert Pires - we had five World Cup winners in the team.” But Adams went on to say that things