Cristiano Ronaldo and Rio Ferdinand talk about the present and the future of Manchester United.
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00:00I love that club you know I'm not I'm not that kind of guy that forgot the path
00:07is still one of the best clubs in the world but they need to change but maybe
00:12that was that was when we was there that was the culture maybe the culture is
00:15different now they had to have a reset. If you are a Manchester United coach you
00:20cannot say that. Have you got any good examples of players that come to you for
00:24advice? If they're not gliss and rude maybe you can. Man United. What's your thoughts on Man United?
00:35Let's go back you went back to Man United we spoke on the phone when you
00:40was gonna gonna go and sign at Man United when you was negotiating to come
00:43back and my wife wanted to kill me at one o'clock in the morning you rang me
00:48well what's going on gonna sort this out you end up signing signing for United
00:53initially that must have been a beautiful thing for you because I
00:55remember on the phone you said it's so happy and then obviously it went a bit
00:59sour just give us a bit of insight and do you feel you've been proven right in
01:04what you said in the interview done when you first left? To prove that I'm right
01:08or wrong this is not it's not my issues anymore I say what I have to say and for
01:14me for me is done but to be honest with you what I wish for Manchester it's what
01:18I wish for me the best they can make again the best team they can and I love
01:25that club you know I'm not I'm not that kind of guy that forgot the past when I'm
01:32back there I was very happy I was one of the best scores I did I did
01:38unbelievable things with the club my first season with 37 I was the third
01:43best scorer of the league I scored all the group stage I scored every game even
01:50in the league I scored 17 goals or 18 goals I did amazing but as I told you
01:55Manchester they they need to rebuild everything in my opinion the coach they
02:03say a few a few days ago that they cannot compete to win the Champions League
02:10and Champions the league and Champions League imagine the coach say that all
02:17the club are you cannot say if you are a Manchester United coach you cannot say
02:22that you're not gonna fight to win the league or Champions League you have to
02:27to be mentally say listen maybe we're not we don't have that potential but I
02:34cannot say that we're gonna try we're gonna try you have to try but but maybe
02:39that was that was when we was there that was the culture maybe the coach is
02:43different now they had to have a reset because the standards have gone down the
02:46expectations have to come down yeah exactly maybe this is why I say but this
02:51club needs any time to rebuild because this is still one of the best clubs
02:57in the world but they need to change and they they understand that it's the
03:03only way and this is why you show that they start to change again the
03:08structure of the club the president the the infrastructures and everything the
03:13owners of the club they're invested in the training ground like I said
03:16so I'm happy because I'm not happy the way they all happen but in the same
03:24way we cannot control some points on our life sometimes but it's done already
03:29done and I repeat I'm still love Manchester United and I wish them the
03:34best. Where do you see the promise in the squad like you look at their squad now
03:37you look at Gannaccio like I'm not talking about players attacking players
03:40really and you see you probably look there first the Gannaccio's, the
03:44Rashford's, the Hoyland's, you look at that and you think like okay where do you
03:49see the promise there? I believe I believe that the future will be bright
03:54I believe but they don't depend only of the talents it's more than that it's all
04:02club all not only players club everything as a unique United you know
04:08they have to rebuild from the bottom if not not they cannot compete it's it will
04:15be possible they can do good things yes they can win Carabao or can win yeah but
04:20I mean Champions League or Europa League or Premier League difficult in my opinion
04:28I wish that I'm wrong I wish but will be difficult. Do you think Ruud obviously we
04:33know Ruud he's gone back there now I think it will help a lot yeah in which
04:36way what do you mean now? If Ten Hag listens to Ruud maybe he can I think he can help a
04:45lot because he knows the club and the club should listen the guys who was
04:49there you or Roy Keane or Paul Scholes or Gary Neville whatever Sir Alex Ferguson
04:55you cannot you cannot rebuild a club without knowledge not guys who work in
05:04office they understand I understand a lot of football because I see football
05:08in a television every day and I understand no this is not doesn't work
05:12like that the people who understand the football it was 99% is the people who
05:17was there in a dressing room was player who was the most successful coaches in
05:23the world Guardiola Ferguson there was player before there was play there was in
05:28dressing room they understand they know how to deal with the players it's the
05:33people who understand the things you understand true if you want to go
05:37Formula One now to be injured you never you don't know I don't know you
05:42understand it should be a guys who work that it's like if you have electricity
05:47problems in your house you don't call the plumber I know but I was in my
05:52computer I know how to change no this doesn't work like that it's true it's
05:55true you understand what I mean so I believe that Ruud gonna help because he
05:59was inside the club he knows the club he knows the fans if the coach listen him I
06:06think they can improve a little bit the club just just on that point yeah you've
06:10played and we're going a bit off topic here but you you've played at loads of
06:13clubs with different the top level and obviously there's always been young
06:17players at all those clubs what are the young players like interacting with you
06:22at these clubs have you got any good examples of players that come to you for
06:25advice or you can tell that they're watching you who are those guys and
06:28what's it like I don't like to mention names but not many in the same way I
06:34remember when I was 18 in the Manchester United you know me very well I'm not I
06:39don't like I see the best examples I see Gary Neville your example Geeksy
06:46Roy Keane what what I do I check everything and I think from what you do
06:53best what Gary do best and I make my own personality my own style my own
07:00profession you understand and the place today they don't do that what was it
07:05about those guys what do you take for me then you are a good professional good
07:11looking is very far from that no but you always do it gym you're always strong
07:16center back strong with the good muscles in a pitch but outside you do it's a gym
07:21I remember a lot you're a tall guy but strong guy abs with the Cleggie and
07:28everything
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