“Did you expect him to do what he did when he left us?” The interesting question of Rio Ferdinand in the podcast ‘Rio Presents’ refers to Cristiano Ronaldowhen he greeted Manchester United in 2009 to land on the planet galactic of Real Madrid. A question asked to who, how Nemanja Vidichad the Portuguese champion as a teammate during his time with the Red Devils together with the English defender.
The response from the former Serbian centre-back, now 43 years old, came with a degree of sincerity and absolute frankness: “If you remember when Cristiano arrived obviously he was a player similar to Berbatov, who seemed to enjoy beautiful football, with his skills and his dribbling. His priority was not to score,” began Vidic. While today CR7 is completely the opposite: “The last two years of his career at United… he has totally changed. He was ready to go to Madrid and I certainly saw that he would do well.”
Yet the former Inter defender – among others – let one slip away confession: “I didn’t expect him to do so well for so many years, he always had a mentality where he wanted to be the best footballer in the world. And he didn’t hide it. He wasn’t even afraid to say it even in the locker room,” he commented .