​ Former Manchester United youth star Mads Timm has opened up about a time he was labelled a "f***ing idiot" by a furious Sir Alex Ferguson after the Old Trafford boss discovered the young Dane was driving a flash sports car around...and hiding it.





Danish forward Timm had arrived at the United academy in 2000 from home-town club Odense and was on the fringes of the first-team by the 2002/03 season.





In his own words in a new autobiography 'Red Devils, currently being serialised by Danish outlet BT, Timm described his relationship with Ferguson as "ambivalent". He spoke of the Scot's charisma and success, but how he was also a "control freak" who "often motivated players with fear".

Timm was on first-name terms with Fergie when he was being courted as a teenager, but also remembers that the legendary boss rarely found time to watch Under-17 or Under-19 training sessions, while he often also left the first-team coaching to assistant Carlos Queiroz.





You can see, as he said, it was a rather mixed relationship.





"During the spring of 2003 I noticed Ferguson's anger several times," Timm recalled in his book.





"After my debut in the Champions League (September 2002), I felt better than ever in football terms, but maybe I should have kept my head down. First he went crazy on me because one day I called him 'Alex' in front of some of the other young players.





"'I'm not your friend. I'm your f***ing boss,' he screamed at my head."

Har lige besøgt Mads Timm. En mand med noget på hjerte og en sindssyg historie i bagagen. pic.twitter.com/e3ZSyduHmj — Lasse Vøge (@LasseVge) October 11, 2016

The incident with the Porsche centred around a sports car that Timm had been hiding in a separate part of the training ground car park away from the rest of the players - Ferguson famously disliked flashiness from his younger players and a few years later even banned coloured boots at youth team level.





"Shortly afterwards, Brian McClair (then youth coach) called me in and said that Ferguson wanted to see me in his office," Timm, now 31 years of age and playing in the Danish lower leagues after a two-year break from football in 2009, continued.

"I had a Porsche, and I was well aware that the boss cared very little if you were playing well. For the same reason I had parked at the entrance, where the ordinary staff usually did," suggesting the player knew he couldn't get away with having an expensive sports car at that time.





Timm revealed that his Porsche was discovered after Ferguson flipped his lid when David Beckham, who would leave the club for Real Madrid within a matter of months, requested permission to arrive at training in a helicopter.





"Now he had discovered my Porsche. 'F***ing idiot' he called me on that occasion, and then I took a taxi to training for a while."

Timm, an FA Youth Cup winner in 2003, was promoted to the first-team squad permanently for the 2003/04 season but was sent on loan to Viking FK in Norway within a few months. He never played for United in the Premier League and was further loaned to Lyn Oslo and Walsall before leaving for good in 2006 when he returned to Odense.





Timm had earlier avoided having his United contract torn up in 2005 after being sentenced to 12 months behind bars as a result of a dangerous driving charge after racing with a team-mate on a public road. Perhaps it was proof that Ferguson was right to be annoyed about the Porsche...

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