Robin van Persie has revealed how his son Shaqueel was excited by the prospect of his dad teaming up with one of his favourite players, Wayne Rooney - because he thought the Englishman was moving to Arsenal.
The Dutchman had spent eight years in north London, where his family were settled, before making the move north in 2012.
And when Van Persie told his son that him and Rooney were set to be team-mates he thought that meant the England striker was heading to Emirates.
Instead the pair teamed up to devastating effect at Old Trafford, helping fire the team to Premier League glory in 2013.
Van Persie told the Utd podcast : 'Maybe I could have chosen different words. What I meant to say, from my point of view, was [about] when you have to make a difficult decision - and it was a very difficult decision if you add up everything because the last few months were very difficult for me and my family as well at home.
'At one point, I told Shaqueel, who was a fan of Wayne Rooney, I said: 'Do you like the idea of me playing together with Rooney?' He said: 'Yeah, is he coming to Arsenal?'.
'I said: 'No, no, no. We are going there.
'He said: 'But that's far away, a different city.' He was quite young then and said: 'I have friends at school and I am happy here.' So he was not too happy about it, he was not too keen.
'With the kids, after three or four days in Manchester, they had new friends and are going so fast. They were really happy in Manchester.
'A lot of people told me, friends in London, they asked why was I going to live in Manchester? It'll be difficult, they said, it's really that bad and always raining - the classic story about Manchester.
'I said: 'Okay, but I want to make the move. I'm doing it.''