Despite Sir Alex Ferguson’s repeated denials, the story simply refused to go away. No matter what he said reports kept linking Manchester United with Wesley Sneijder.   “I keep reading about this, there’s absolutely nothing at all to that,” he insisted in July. This still led many to question whether Ferguson was indeed bluffing? After all, in the very same press conference he had also said: “First of all I don’t think Inter are prepared to sell him.”   How had that opinion been based? Could it have been on a negative response to an inquiry about the player? Or was he actually telling the truth when he added that “you get conjecture and speculation every week in newspapers unfortunately and we have to…