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Manchester United 1999β2000 football season The 1999β2000 season was Manchester United's eighth season in the Premier League, and their 25th consecutive π season in the top division of English football.[1] United won the Premier League title for the sixth time in eight π seasons (with a record 18-point margin and 97 goals scored) as well as becoming the first English club to win π the Intercontinental Cup when they defeated Palmeiras in Tokyo. However, they surrendered their Champions League title with a 3β2 defeat π by eventual champions Real Madrid in the quarter-finals. The club controversially did not defend their FA Cup crown, upon request π by The Football Association, to compete in the inaugural FIFA Club World Championship in Brazil instead.[2] Mark Bosnich, previously at United π as a reserve goalkeeper from 1989 to 1991, returned to the club as Peter Schmeichel's successor, but failed to live π up to expectations and in September, the club swooped for Italian Massimo Taibi to provide competition for him. However, Taibi π suffered some high-profile mistakes and returned to his homeland at the end of the season after just four games for π the club. As the season wore on, long-time reserve goalkeeper Raimond van der Gouw was increasingly called on as the π starting goalkeeper, and proved a fairly reliable performer, but at 37 years old as of the end of the season, π it was clear that he would not be a long-term solution. United then solved the goalkeeping crisis by paying AS π Monaco Β£7.8 million for Fabien Barthez. Also new to the squad for 1999β2000 were French defender MikaΓ«l Silvestre and South π African winger Quinton Fortune. Jesper Blomqvist and Wes Brown missed the entire season due to injury, while similar misfortune restricted π defenders David May and Ronny Johnsen to three first-team appearances between them. Jordi Cruyff left the club on a free π transfer to Deportivo AlavΓ©s at the end of the season, seeing out his four-year contract at a club where he π had failed to claim a regular first-team place. Pre-season and friendlies [ edit ] FA Charity Shield [ edit ] ------------------------------------------------------------------
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