Manchester United’s season has seen them losing 10 times on 32 matches which is more than what they lost in the entire past season. This is almost the same squad that won the Premier League during the previous campaign.
It is not the dream debut season that David Moyes wished to have happened since his appointment as the head coach of Manchester United but they have slowly been starting to pick themselves up and bounce back from the atrocious season. Continue reading LIFE IS COMPLICATED
Rio Ferdinand’s latest appearance with Manchester United was during the Champions League match against Olympiakos as the team of David Moyes suffered from yet another disappointing result but this time around it wasn’t a negative outcome from the Premier League but from the Champions League.
The entire Manchester United squad that played against Olympiakos was mediocre to say the least but Rio Ferdinand was just disastrous throughout the entire match as he launched long passes to the opponents and gave away the ball just way too much.
It was yet another sign that Ferdinand displayed as he is not the played he once used to be and its further evidence that he is reaching the end of his career with the Premier League club, with only a few months left on his contract and after making such a below par performance it seems highly unlike that David Moyes will be featuring Ferdinand on his starting lineup unless someone gets injured and the Scottish coach has no choice but to use Ferdinand.
Ferdinand will form part of a number of players that David Moyes will be offloading in the summer along with Nemanja Vidic and Patrice Evra’s future still remains uncertain. Shinji Kagawa is another player that has not been enjoying the best of time with Manchester United and he is candidate on leaving the club at the end of the season as well.
Thomas Vermaelen is a high profile target of Manchester United as Moyes wants to bring him to the club as a replacement of Nemanja Vidic and the Belgium defender has already stated his desire to leave Arsenal as he has fallen behind of the pecking order of Arsene Wenger who prefers using Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny at the heart of the defence.
Manchester United manager David Moyes has rejected rumours that defender Rio Ferdinand is set to retire from football at the end of the season. The 35-year-old of out of contract in the summer and there has been no talk of a new deal from the club. He has been linked with a move to the MLS in the last few months, but Ferdinand has been hinting recently that he may consider stepping into football management because it is something he has always wanted to do. Ferdinand has been taking his coaching badges, which will allow him to become a football manager.
A number of experienced players have been linked with an exit from the club in the last few months, as Moyes is reportedly targeting his own team. Nemanja Vidic, Patrice Evra, and Ryan Giggs are some of the players linked with an exit. United are expected to spend a huge amount of money in the summer to rebuild the squad. They already spent a massive chunk of it on Chelsea midfielder Juan Mata, who has been brought to the club for £ 37.1 million. This has broken the previous transfer record of £ 30.1 million set by Dimitar Berbatov in 2008.
United are set to miss out on the Champions league next season.
“I can only tell you that what was written today was a load of rubbish, complete nonsense. We’ve got a chance of a few days away. We’ll see. We’ll go and try to have a few days away and get ready. We’ve got a big Champions League game coming up in just over a week’s time,” said Moyes. “Must be another slow news day. come on Neil Custis get ya head out ya Y-fronts!,” said Ferdinand through his Twitter account.
Ferdinand has not featured for United since November.
Rio Ferdinand says that he is keen to enter into football management once his playing career is finished. The Manchester Madrid defender is entering into the final six months of his contract with his club and there has been a lot of speculation that it would be his final season. Ferdinand is regarded as one of the finest defenders of his generation and he has immense respect within the game. After winning almost everything on offer at club level, Ferdinand has also done well at international level as well.
He is odds-on favourite to get even the Premier league job once he decides to enter into management due to his immense stature in the game. Previously, it was thought that he would enter into football punditry and look after his fashion business, which is connected to football. Now, the 35-year-old says that management is his next option once he retires from playing. Ferdinand has featured rarely in the second half of the season. Even though United have the option to extend his contract by 12 months, it looks unlikely that he will take up this option.
Ferdinand has also sounded very sceptical about his chances of playing next season. There are several young managers in the Premier league and Ferdinand could be one among them.
“Will I be playing next season? I don’t know. I’ve got to get through this season first. I hope I finish this one! Last season I said the same thing, I won’t look any further than the end of the season and then re-evaluate it around that time. I’m doing my badges. I’ve got a lot of other interests but I definitely want to stay in the game when I retire. I feel I’ve got a lot to offer. I’d like to [stay in the game] definitely,” said Ferdinand.
The attacking duos of Liverpool, Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge have scored 16 goals so far in this season becoming one of most efficient partnerships in the Premier League although Rio Ferdinand said that they have a lot to prove.
“In this country and in football in general I think we build people up too quickly,” explained Ferdinand on BT Sport.
“That’s not to say they’re not a great partnership – they’re proven at the moment. They’re on top of their game and they’re playing very very well. They’ve scored some great goals.
“But I think you judge partnerships over a period of time. Look at Yorke and Cole, Sheringham and Shearer. These types of partnerships aren’t developed overnight over a course of part of a season; it’s over a period of time. So I think it’s better to give these people time.”
The retired and former captain of England David Beckham will start a Major League Soccer Team in Miami and both Frank Lampard and Rio Ferdinand are just some of the players Beckham desires to get hold for his new team.
Rio Ferdinand is struggling with fitness problems that have left him out of the team on a number of occasions and having 35 years of age, it seems highly unlikely that he will remain for a longer amount of time with Manchester United taking into consideration the younger options they have available at their disposal.
This may be the last season in which Ferdinand plays at a top tier league like the Premier League and just like Thierry Henry and the rest of the cast that moved to MLS to play, this is a possibility that edges closer and closer.