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Sir Alex Ferguson appears to have rebuffed Real Madrid's interest in Javier Hernandez but Manchester United can only hope this is not just the beginning of another Bernabeu transfer saga.The Daily Mail reports that Jose Mourinho told Ferguson to name his price for Mexican striker, who has enjoyed a sensational start to life in England.
The news that United had agreed to pay Chivas £6 million for the unknown striker received a lukewarm reception in April last year.
But just 14 months later he has become one of the hottest properties in world football after scoring 13 goals in his debut season in the Premier League.
Even Ferguson admits to being surprised at the striker's impact, which pushed Dimitar Berbatov so far down the pecking order that there is now talk that the Bulgarian will leave Old Trafford this summer.
Hernandez may not have shone in the Champions League final defeat to Barcelona - which Berbatov watched from the Wembley dressing room - but there is no doubt that Ferguson now sees the Mexican and Wayne Rooney as his first-choice partnership.
And that is why talk of Real Madrid starting to sniff around is about as welcome as when former Real president Florentino Perez and the Bernabeu hierarchy started praising Cristiano Ronaldo on what seemed like a daily basis.
Two years after the first rumours of Real interest in Ronaldo began to swirl - even after Ferguson claimed he would not even sell Real "a virus" - the Portuguese made the £80 million move to Spain in 2009.
Hernandez had only been in England for four months when the first reports of Real's interest emerged.
And then the player's agent Eduardo Hernandez put the situation into doubt on the eve of the Champions League final by admitting he would consider an offer from Real.
He told goal.com: "Real Madrid are a very big club, but then so are Manchester United. I think this is a subject between directors.
"We would expect to look closely at any offer from Real Madrid, if Manchester told us there was one.
"We would only look at it, though, because in the first place Javier is extremely grateful to Manchester for having given him this chance, and also because it is reciprocated from the club."
The Mail claims that Ferguson stood firm in his dialogue with Mourinho, even with the suggestion Karim Benzema and Gonzalo Higuain could be involved as part-exchange and there is even talk of a new deal for Hernandez.
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