Rio Ferdinand

I know some notable fredsters will disagree but what a huge character and miss he is from the team. Loved Rio. Part of the best United defence i've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxw8X1rnc1Q

he was an absolute #@&%! when we signed him, but he matured on and off the pitch and is the best centre half i have seen at united. love rio

Love Rio

Listening to Key103 radio station the other morning and he rang up and donated 500k to buy toys for their charity.

Best defender I've seen at United in his prime.

Originally Posted by dragflick

Love Rio

Listening to Key103 radio station the other morning and he rang up and donated 500k to buy toys for their charity.

Best defender I've seen at United in his prime.

yeah, that was a great thing to do. top man

city scored 9 against them!? wtf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh0Mk7KTeNc

gooooooonnnnn

punched my aunty in the nose on this one

Originally Posted by plopborsky

punched my aunty in the nose on this one

We all did

Love Rio losing him and Patrice at the same times was a monumental blow

Originally Posted by itisme_panaflex

city scored 9 against them!? wtf

They're battering us at every level from u18 downwards.

They're systematically hoovering up all the best young players in the country. A friend of a friend just had their son sign with them and he's in Essex! They're going to relocate his whole family.

Signed him from Leeds for a massive £30m, real flash cockney git looked like he could be all style no substance. We all had massive doubts, that lad really worked his way into our affections. Red legend

Brilliant player! Best defender I've seen tbh and litterlay had everything to his game

Legend

He's quite literally a Rolls Royce Jeff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRF18GG1dQw

Originally Posted by thatsfuctit

He's quite literally a Rolls Royce Jeff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRF18GG1dQw

Absolutely £#%&!ing brilliant player and character

Best defender we ever had and the best defender ever to play in England.

Originally Posted by Sizlack

Signed him from Leeds for a massive £30m, real flash cockney git looked like he could be all style no substance. We all had massive doubts, that lad really worked his way into our affections. Red legend

Yep - he was alright once we knocked the cockney gobshite out of him and gave him some Manc substance

Always was going to end up a great player but he developed into a good leader too which was a pleasant surprise.

Don't think much of him as a pundit.

"as a defender"
"as a midfielder"

Someone needs to give him new sentence starters

We were offered him for half of what we bought him for when he left west ham but fergie decided he was surplus to requirements because we had wes brown...

Sounds crazy but actually shows freggles ability to reconsider class as rio matured

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Rio was incredible, cool cool cat too

Used to play outstandingly well against Arsenal too.

Originally Posted by Harri Jaffa

We were offered him for half of what we bought him for when he left west ham but fergie decided he was surplus to requirements because we had wes brown..

Sounds crazy but actually shows freggles ability to reconsider class as rio matured

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it's not crazy. 30m in 2002! To one of our biggest rivals. Fergie put his big balls on the table.

Not just that, his leaving Leeds was the start of their big slump