On this day, 17 years ago...

What a player. Could do with him now.

Yep, we could really do with one of the greatest defenders of his generation right now.

Originally Posted by Jethro

Yep, we could really do with one of the greatest defenders of his generation right now.

I know, that's why I said it.

Originally Posted by Jethro

Yep, we could really do with one of the greatest defenders of his generation right now.

What a player

One of my all time favourite united players

Absolute class.

Originally Posted by Jethro

Yep, we could really do with one of the greatest defenders of his generation right now.

could ask pure what he thinks

Best defender we've ever had.

He was quite literally a Rolls Royce Jeff.

What a player, absolutely blindingly obvious he was worth dropping a World Record fee on.

Originally Posted by dunk

What a player, absolutely blindingly obvious he was worth dropping a World Record fee on.

Imagine how much he’d be worth today

200m?

Wasn’t the story that Woodward told him after the last game of the 2014 season while still in the changing room he’d be released that summer?

Originally Posted by dunk

What a player, absolutely blindingly obvious he was worth dropping a World Record fee on.

ridiculous how much stick he got back then.

Originally Posted by dunk

What a player, absolutely blindingly obvious he was worth dropping a World Record fee on.

With fees like that, you can only tell if they're worth it when the player leaves. Rio's was absolutely worth it.

Originally Posted by Switching Off

With fees like that, you can only tell if they're worth it when the player leaves. Rio's was absolutely worth it.

Nah, he'd been brilliant for Leeds and he was incredible during the World Cup that summer, in the Argentina game it felt like he had a magnet for the ball about his person, he was everywhere. An absolute colossus. Never any question about how good he was and would be imo. One of the few.

That performance in 07 at Anfield.

Not just a great defender on his own but a great organiser too.

Poor man's Maguire...

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Originally Posted by believe

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Absolute £#%&!ing state

sharath though that bloke was a £#%&!ing tube.

Originally Posted by believe

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He is the most naturally gifted defender in the Europe, and he was outstanding yesterday.

How do we know Henry was his man, by the way? It looked to me from the replay that Rio was covering Adebayor and it was Vidic who was marking open space at the front post when there was already a defender (Heinze I think) there.

If you think Ferdinand is in any way a weak link you're off your head.

Siders right again. He normally is in the long run

Originally Posted by believe

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Jesus Christ.