Ruud van Nistelrooy BBC interview

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16373059.stm

£#%&!ing love Ruud. Legend

does he say anything interesting?

Originally Posted by The Watcher

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16373059.stm

£#%&!ing love Ruud. Legend

My dad mentioned this yesterday. Apparently Ruud said being dropped for the Carling Cup final made him leave?

Still love Ruud. Best striker I've seen at the club. A ruthless predator.

Love Ruud.
Amazing to think he only won one League Title & an FA Cup at the Club.
He deserved a European Cup more than any £#%&!er. His goals ratio in Europe was breathtaking. I can't remember him playing a Champions League match & not scoring ffs

One of the best 'big game' players I've seen too. When it really mattered, he'd score. Highbury in 2003

Originally Posted by The Watcher

One of the best 'big game' players I've seen too. When it really mattered, he'd score. Highbury in 2003

puts chico's 'finishing' into perspective too.

Originally Posted by MJ Ramone

Love Ruud.
Amazing to think he only won one League Title & an FA Cup at the Club.
He deserved a European Cup more than any £#%&!er. His goals ratio in Europe was breathtaking. I can't remember him playing a Champions League match & not scoring ffs

Very true, was gutted when he left, that 44 goals in one season takes some doing!

Originally Posted by The Watcher

One of the best 'big game' players I've seen too. When it really mattered, he'd score. Highbury in 2003

proper all-round striker as well, two-footed, good in the air, one-touch control, pace off a standing start, power with no backlift, hard to knock off the ball...


£#%&!sakes

loved the horse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9bnZ7UQwfw

I had actually forgotten how good he was at his peak for Utd. There was a little discussion the other day and a youtube compilation was posted. He scored some great goals, 150 in 219 games , and that record was during a transitional period for the side.

Was he the best out and out striker of the last decade in European football?

He was just £#%&!ing deadly but let's not pretend he was some type of all round player. How many did he score outside the box and how little interest did he have in being part of the build up? A lot of the time he did very little except score goals but that was always enough for me. Oh and he didn't have real pace. Good on a gallop though.

Originally Posted by armchair

He was just £#%&!ing deadly but let's not pretend he was some type of all round player. How many did he score outside the box and how little interest did he have in being part of the build up? A lot of the time he did very little except score goals but that was always enough for me. Oh and he didn't have real pace. Good on a gallop though.

He was very much part of the build-up when he first came. His first touch and awareness was class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4En7-_15i9M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHU8DZ04WFU

Originally Posted by Agent Dale Cooper

Apparently Ruud said being dropped for the Carling Cup final made him leave?

Doesn't show him in a terribly good light, tbh

What a £#%&!ing player

he was absolutely deadly and a brilliant goalscorer for us, especially in the big games. however, i never really took to him. i know that says more about me than anything else, but i just want to put that out there, like a confessional or something.

thanks for listening.

Originally Posted by Jack Duckworth

he was absolutely deadly and a brilliant goalscorer for us, especially in the big games. however, i never really took to him. i know that says more about me than anything else, but i just want to put that out there, like a confessional or something.

thanks for listening.

I'm the complete opposite jack, I'd bum the guy half to death then nurse him for weeks....

An utter machine.

If he had a twitter I'd ask him out.

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

If he had a twitter I'd ask him out.

He does and you can.

Ruud was a Top Red who had an affinity with our support. One of the last players I genuinely liked. Went at the right time, just a shame it was under such nasty circumstances. I was gutted when I found out he'd £#%&!ed off, just before KO against Charlton

One of my favourite Reds of the last ten years. What a £#%&!ing player; the best striker we've had in the Premier League era IMO.

If Henry had scored this goal Martin Tyler would have self-combusted and London would have called for football to be cancelled for five years as an honorary gesture.

It shows how Ruud had pace, power and wonderful feet, which all often get overlooked when he's wrongly bracketed as a 'poacher'. He was much more than that; he was a complete striker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV6NPCsA2NI

Originally Posted by Neo

One of my favourite Reds of the last ten years. What a £#%&!ing player; the best striker we've had in the Premier League era IMO.

If Henry had scored this goal Martin Tyler would have self-combusted and London would have called for football to be cancelled for five years as an honorary gesture.

It shows how Ruud had pace, power and wonderful feet, which all often get overlooked when he's wrongly bracketed as a 'poacher'. He was much more than that; he was a complete striker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV6NPCsA2NI

Great goal, but Ruud wasn't a complete striker imo