"I would have wanted to already but he came back from New York yesterday and had to stay one or two days at home due to Covid regulations," Ralf Rangnick said, as per the official Man United website.
"But I’m very much looking forward to meeting him in the next two or three weeks. Darren Fletcher has already told me that he wants to arrange a lunch or a dinner.
"I saw him obviously when we played against each other. After the second leg, he invited me into his office at Old Trafford for a glass of wine.
"At the time he enjoyed it more than I did because we lost 4-1. The team he had and the team we had… the gap was just too big at the time."
In 2011, Rangnick's Schalke side arrived at Old Trafford for the return leg of the Champions League semi-final. As the German says, it did not go well for his side.
"I met him again in 2015 at the awards for Kicker sports magazine," the interim boss added.
"We had dinner together at the time and it was superb. Once again, I’m very much looking forward to meeting him again in person."
While Ole Gunnar Solskjaer always looked at Sir Alex as the source of his inspiration, Rangnick is known as a much more independent thinker, so it's not clear what if any influence Ferguson will have at the club now.
That said, it would not be wise for Rangnick to miss the chance to talk to one of the greatest football managers in football's history while he's still around.
