It's not the way I remember it-although that doesn't mean I am correct. What I remember was at the end of 94/5 we were linked with a double signing of Macateer and Stubbs from Bolton, that Liverpool came in for Jason and we only wanted to do the signing as long as we could sign both, so a combination of that and Uncle Jack not wanting to make major signings meant we didn't build on the success.
What I remember about the following season was that Ray Harford started looking at Zidane and ended up being more impressed by Dugarry but by the time he got involved in trying to do anything about it, they had both been signed up by an Italian team. When he became interested in Ronaldo, he found Barcelona had already done a deal to sign him.