Ferdinand set for £30mil ManYoo move

Dont be at yourself

Leeds have just accepted a £30,000,000 bid from ManYoo for Rio Ferdinand, so he looks almost certain to be in the red shirt next season.

Dustaz

bah

ManUre might actually start to look like a professional team now they have someone who knows how to defend. Still, one swallow a summer does not make. Remeber, this is the team that made Veron and Barthez look ordinary. For the sake of my own sanity, im hoping rio takes a few defensive tips from the neville sisters.

mike65

Leeds really do have to get thier skates on with the Bowyer sale off, not mention probs with Dacourt and Keane apparently not going anywhere quickly. 30 mill would proberrly be enough for them, as for Man Utds defence Dustaz is right, it'll take more than Ferdinands arrival to make them watertight again.

Mike.

smuckers

I think that Rio is a good player but not the worldbeater everyone makes him out to be, is prone to the defensive lapse and has to improve position wise, it will take more than Feridand for Mancs to win the league they badly need a full back.

MrJoeSoap

What annoys me is how everbody says Rio is a "proven" defender. Proven at what exactly? He was ok in the World Cup, nothing special, and he has done very little for West Ham or Leeds so I dont honestly see what all the fuss is about him. Give me my Sami Hyypia any day.

SheroN

good business by leeds if you ask me, they can now move in for aayalah, stam or roque JR.....all quality defenders.

Xterminator

Originally posted by MrJoeSoap
What annoys me is how everbody says Rio is a "proven" defender. Proven at what exactly? He was ok in the World Cup, nothing special, and he has done very little for West Ham or Leeds so I dont honestly see what all the fuss is about him. Give me my Sami Hyypia any day.

Hehe another deluded 'pool fan.

Seeing as Sami Hypia is a'proven' defender in your words, lets see how many world cups or european championships he has played in ... hmm ... oh so maybe he's not proven on the world scene. Ah well he plays for Finland .. well my granny turned down a place on the finnish team, so finnish caps are hardly a measure of world class player now are they?

Well he's had a few good seasons with Liverpool, won a few cups, but no league medals?
Maybe he got 1 or 2 with Wilhem in the ultra competitive dutch league!

FFS sake, Rio is still a young footballer. Already he's cemented his place on the England Team, had a very good world cup where he was Englands best player (out shone Owen, Beckham etc) he's played champions league football, has more seasons in the premiership than Hypia.
What more do you want? If they sign a player with a few world cups behind them then there called 'too old' (eg Blanc).

X

darthmise

Ladies, Ladies, Ladies.....


Ferdinand is a class act and will be for years to come.

Hyypia is curently the best defender in the premiership.


Consider the smack to be put down.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Ferdinand is a class act.

Hyypia is definitely the best defender in the premiership.

When Stam goes to Leeds Sr. Alex will see what a mistake was made getting rid of him and keeping the Neville sisters.

Bob the Unlucky Octopus

They have him now, but will they keep him? Seems to me at the first sign of a disparaging word in a book/newspaper article Fergie will ship him off to some other club. Jap Staam anyone? Just think...if Fergie had swallowed his pride, Stam & Rio could have formed a world-beating partnership. Oh well :rolleyes:

Occy

Sposs

I Think everyone knows that the reason ferguson sold stam was more to do with off the field antics than on the pitch.

After all two months after united had sold him he got banned for six months for testing positive for nandralone (i think),so if you ask me united united got out with some nice money €15 mill and nine of the shame.

Hairy Homer

Originally posted by Xterminator


Seeing as Sami Hypia is a'proven' defender in your words, lets see how many world cups or european championships he has played in ... hmm ... oh so maybe he's not proven on the world scene. Ah well he plays for Finland .. well my granny turned down a place on the finnish team, so finnish caps are hardly a measure of world class player now are they?

Well he's had a few good seasons with Liverpool, won a few cups, but no league medals?
Maybe he got 1 or 2 with Wilhem in the ultra competitive dutch league!
X

You ain't no Finn. X Terminator. The Finns are the toughest nation in Europe. They held off the Soviet Union for six months with a population the size of ours. They produce some of the world's great technology companies. In sporting terms they regularly produce the world'\s best distance runners, javelin throwers, and motor racers.

In Sami Hyppia they have one of Europe's best defensive footballers. And you say your granny could take them on? Not unless you're so far back the evolutionary chain that your granny's an orang utan, mate.

How dare you look down on a player for not being from one of the traditionally successful countries. Or for not playing for Unoited. It's pretentious peasant prats like you that I had in mind when I posted elsewhere about the sort of Gaderene gits who demand we all see United's footballing greatness reflected in their replica shirts.

The beauty of football is that the great players come in all shapes and sizes and from all countries. Pele was a compact negro gymnast. Cruyff was a pasty faced European stringbean. So was George Best. Zidane is an Arab powerhouse. Eusebio had the build to be a brilliant rugby player. Allan Simmonsen didn't but what a player he was. Despite the fact that he never won any major international honours either.

And you would look down on them because they don't play for United? You're a fool sir.

Some day I'll climb off the fence and tell you what I really think.

Harrumph!!!!!

mike65

L:eek:L

Brilliant! You saved me writing a lengthy tirade.

No-one is tougher than the Finn, except maybe Stephan Henchoz!(who's not as fair!)

Mike.

mike65

Oh yes back on topic-ish, Peter Kenyon the ManUtd head honcho
has said the signing of Ferdinand is it as far as transfers go this
side of the deadline, is this the sign of a board that is comfortable and confindent about Fergie or one thats decided
to run the clock down until he leaves (for real this time).

Or do they just think there will be better value next year?

Mike.

plastic membrane

Originally posted by Sposs
I Think everyone knows that the reason ferguson sold stam was more to do with off the field antics than on the pitch.

After all two months after united had sold him he got banned for six months for testing positive for nandralone (i think),so if you ask me united united got out with some nice money €15 mill and nine of the shame.

Always thought there was something a tad fishy about that. why would they get rid of a world class defender on nothing more than a whim ? Nevertheless, Ferdinand is a great defender, but then again, how good can he be when he plays alongside The Bronte...sorry Neville sisters ?