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Originally Posted by Russ D
Pre-United, Cantona was average with occasional flashes of brilliance. He certainly did not justify anything more than his £1 million price tag. Something clicked however when he joined United and that's when he became the legend he now is.
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Sorry mate i disagree. Like I said I think he was the reason they won the title in 92 and not Man Utd.
look at this quote from a leeds site over the transfer..not how you would describe an average player who had only been at a club for 6 months...
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Of course, the most dramatic example of this came in November 1992 with the transfer of Cantona to Man Utd for just £1.2 million. They say we all remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when the news of the JFK and Lennon shootings were relayed. For Leeds fans, much the same can be said of the Cantona transfer. That a man who, in less than six months at Leeds, had become a god, could be allowed to move to our sworn enemies for a fraction of his true worth, at a time when we were ourselves struggling was almost too much to bear. The fact that we, and Wilko, then had to watch in horror as they went on to win trophy after trophy under his influence was even worse. It was perhaps fitting, then, that in 1996 it was to be Cantona's goal in a 4-0 drubbing at Elland Road that eventually led to Howard's dismissal
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