Tony Adams kusan ya bar Arsenal zuwa babban abokin hamayya a lokacin rani na 1996 — kuma Sir Alex Ferguson ne ya yi wannan kira na wayar tarho.

Kyaftin na Arsenal ya shaida wa FourFourTwo cewa Ferguson ya tuntube shi kai tsaye a lokacin da akwai babbar rashin tabbas a kulob, yana gayyatarsa ya koma Old Trafford. A wancan lokaci, Arsenal ta saki manajan su Bruce Rioch, 'yan watanni kaɗan bayan rasa George Graham a sakamakon badakalar cin hanci, wanda Graham ya yarda ya karɓi kuɗin da ba a nema ba daga wakili.

Kulob ɗin da yake cikin rudani

Kakar 1995/96 ta kasance mai cike da tashin hankali. Arsenal ta ƙare a matsayi na biyar a ƙarƙashin Rioch — ingantawa daga matsayi na sha biyu mai takaici — amma kulob ɗin kuma ya sha wahalar shan kashi a wasan karshe na Kofin Nasara, inda suka kasa riƙe kofin da suka ci a baya. Ficewa Rioch kafin kakar 1996/97, wani ɓangare saboda rikici kan canja wurin 'yan wasa, ya bar kulob ɗin ba tare da jagora ba.