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Rio Ferdinand

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“And so that mental warfare that goes on, it could be sorted out through conversation. Acknowledging certain things, but you're taught in a macho dressing room that talking is seen as a weakness back then. I think there's big changes now, like you say, the narrative now is very different. So you'd like to think it's changing and clubs are more aware of that.”
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“Have got more out of certain players, definitely Yeah, because. Louis Sarah, for instance, what a Unbelievable footballer had injuries, but along with the injuries that brought a mental health problem for him. And like a bit depressed and down and whatnot because he felt he was letting everyone down. That's what you feel when you're injured. You feel you're letting your teammates down. And it's hard to deal with sometimes, especially if you just keep getting little injuries and you come back, you go again, you come back and people start always always injured. Mentally he's not strong, is he? Don't fancy it. And as a player, you know them conversations are going on. So you start thinking about that. And when people see you, you think he's doubts me anyway.”
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“I've done a documentary on BBC about grief and bereavement and stuff and obviously mental health is a huge part of that. And I got to understand mental health through that journey of making a documentary and understanding that when I played, again, mental health was not a thing at all and it was never considered. There was no compassion, and if you acknowledge your mental health and started to talk about it as I have problems on issue, you was then seen as a weak link. Whether it was spoke about or not, he was there. That would be the case. That would be how you would see that whole situation. And so no one then talks about it through fear of being called the weak link. And I look back now and think, yeah, definitely if we would have been more open or if we would have had today's thought process about mental health”
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“And then carries on with life is really just chilled, man. He's so different to what he's like on the pitch. It's just a chill guy. He's intense guy, to be fair. Intense. And some players may have found him at times quite moody at times and just really like in with what he's doing because he's so intense and he would really like to think about a lot of stuff and probably overthink certain situations. I got on really well with him. He's one of my closest guys at May United when I was there. Yeah, I talked to him now in the tech and stuff. He's living in Milan at the moment. Oh, really?”
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“He's quite an unassuming guy. He's really like, he's not really taken by anything. They say that about me? Oh, cool. It's good. Not bad.”
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“The best, I want to be the best, which is true, but the overriding factor of me wanting to be the best is that we don't concede and we're a partnership I got your back. And that's what he used to say before a game. You go up, I'm behind you, don't worry. When I go up, you're behind me, yeah. That's all it was all the time. You challenge, I'm behind you, don't worry, just go through the ball, go for the man, take the man in the ball. I'm here if it goes wrong. And is that having that sense of security for each other?”
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“Why I'm here because I knew you'd say that. I appreciate that, man I don't know. He had attributes that just complemented mine and vice versa. He wanted to go and attack every bull. When the ball got kicked in the skies, he just saw one thing, and that was the And he was better at that than me. For I read stuff and would clean up around all of that and was more of, I don't know, I read the game probably a little bit different to him. At the same time, I was capable of going up and winning the ball. And then he'd do that with me, whether he was as good at me at cleaning up or not for other people to decide. But I don't know. We just compliment each other. And what it was, there was a pride about our defending us two. So you see a lot of people, it's like me.”
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“The lads wouldn't have probably known how obsessed I was with it because I would never show that really. But inside. Thought that someone thought that someone else is a better centre back than we used to like it would eat away at me. Is that just pride, ego? We all got egos. You want to be the best. I was never ashamed of myself to feel like that. I say that. I didn't say it at the time because etiquette, it's not the thing to do. In American sports, they do it. They talk like that. I wish we was more I think I'm the best on it, so I don't care. I would say now. I thought I was the best centre back. I was always, I just wanted to be the best. Whether I was or not, it's for other people to decide. But that was always my intention.”
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“None of these lot are going out all the time. So if I'm going to go out and continue that lifestyle I had before, My levels are obviously always going to be a bit below these guys because you can't sustain Always working from a lower standpoint. So I changed that. And listen, I still made mistakes, but my intentions... My desire was to always be as good as I could be. I wanted to be better than Vida. Vidic. John Terry Salcamp I need to be the best when people talk about the best centre back. I need to be the first name on their lips. So what can I do? I was not obsessed with it. Do you know what I mean?”
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“Tell me how you I weren't perfect. It took me a long time to start understanding your body, understanding your mindset and my state of mind had to be at tip-top condition, both mentally and physically on a game day. And West Ham, I didn't have it. Leeds, I didn't have it. Because I was inconsistent. I trained hard. But then I'd be going out every other night. I'd go out four or five times a week, parties, pissed. West Ham, I don't remember a lot of results or certain things when people say, what about the game when you... I can't remember I used to be guy and get pissed so often and then I got to Main United and I just was surrounded by people that had won and I was desperate to win. So what do you do to win? I'm going to copy of him, him, him like we spoke about before. You become part of that And then you realize that.”
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“Habits, lifestyle all the time like that. So when it comes to match time, it's not a big shift because your body can't deal with that. Your mind can't deal with that. If it's normalized, this is normal on a Saturday, 3 o'clock, 60,000 people screaming, 100 million people around the world. That's not pressure. Do this every day.”
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“Then you buy the work, dedication, attention to detail, application on a daily basis. This is the thing a lot of people think I've worked hard for two weeks and haven't got any rewards out of it. The manager's still not playing me. I'll give up. No, that's got to be, we were talking before, a lifestyle. Hard work every day is a lifestyle. That should be like the standard. That's the standard that is here, and you've got to be at that every day. There's none of this taking your foot off the pedal because it's difficult. Carlos Carroll said to me, You can't just switch it on and off. That mentality, that intensity, the dedication, the hard work on a daily. But you can't just go, I'll work hard on Monday to Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I'll just chill. And then Saturday, switch it on again.”
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“Yeah, so you just said to the lads, listen, after training all coming in or before training, all come in a change room. And everyone sat down and he was like, Listen, I've got to say it because I'm seeing it every day and it ain't good for the club. Some of you young boys, I'm seeing you, and some even the older players that are a little bit older than that, but how can you be going home before him? He's doing extras working outside, or he goes in the gym, or before training, I see San So doing that, and you're just messing about in the canteen or something like that. It's a valuable time. Don't miss it. Short career, things like that. But that's, again, the manager allowing people to manage a change in them. That's how it was there. You had people that managed to change room and you had the manager that oversaw it all.”
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“Whenever I came called a meeting, called a meeting because he thought that the young players weren't doing the extras. Why are you going home before that experienced player there? Yeah, when you're the start of the lad”
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“I always put it down to as well things like dedication, desire. He was always the first in a training round. You try and beat him to get in a training ground sometimes. Take my kids to school and get there. We used to start at like half nine, you used to be in at half nine. I used to get in them at eight o'clock and these cars there already. Last to leave most of the time. That's again, that goes back to the point I was saying about showing your kids rather than telling them. Then they know he's always there. You can't be late. You late? The manager's here, he's been 26 years and he's early every day, and you're not, he's obviously prepping. You don't do your prep work in the gym wire.”
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“Exactly. When you're winning, it's like everything when you're successful and you're winning, everything's kind of run smoothly, doesn't it? And then obviously, when things start to go a little bit wrong, you see so many more bumps in the road, so many more splinter groups come out and start pointing the finger, etc. So I just think that it's... Getting that culture right and getting the people who feel part of the club, and then you win with that as well. There's no better.”
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“You know, all the things I just mentioned there about the club as well, that is a byproduct of success as well. That becomes easier.”
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“I think it has to. And that's why I look back on things like that and you speak to any of the people that work there. That was a big part of it. Because everyone thinks it's the first 11, the team, the squad, the first team that play. Dast man united, it's not The fans, and it's all the people that work behind the scenes to enable that first 11, that team, that squad to go out there and perform. Them people around that aren't working. That's what the managers say all these people, the kit man, the physio, nutritionist, the dinner lady, etc. These lot help you enable you to be successful. So don't forget that. Do you know”
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“Dinner lady at the training ground actually spoke to her on the way here, funny, that's just me a voice note. But the dinner lady, Carol. She could have banter with the manager or David Gill. Like first name terms. Panter that had been spread over a number of years so they could go back and have a proper He knew the name of the groundsman, but it was like And if I'm at Man United now, that is part where I'm going. That has to be recreated. Bring that back. Because that's a strength. Like I said before about strength in numbers. That's the foundation of the football club. People come in that place and think, oh my God, they're all manited here. They all feel part of it. That creates”
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“And that was the way I used to explain Man United. I left Leeds, which was like a family. I used to say this is a smaller version, without obviously the success, but a smaller version in terms of the people here been here for thirty years, forty years, twenty years. My dad used to work here. My mom used to work here. That's a family club. Man United was that when I was there. My fear is that it becomes something else.”
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“100%. And that again, we've said culture about 10 times already in this conversation. But that's part of a culture. There has to be, like you say, compassion, empathy, respect.”
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“Ed knows how I feel about it, but we've moved on past that. I'll speak to him on the phone about various different things anyway when we meet up sometimes. So it's cool.”
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“You'll have told me before the end of the season because he knew what it means. But the difference is that Fergie was a footballer and he knows what it means. He knows what it is to be able to say thank you for your support, etc. Just have that little runway to a send-off. Now, listen, I understand not everybody can have it that way, but if you've got and you've got the opportunity to give someone the best possible route out of a situation, you give it to them. And my situation, I think you could see down the line from a month, two months before that, that you knew what was going to happen with me. So give me the opportunity to have the best possible send-off, given the time, given the relationship that I've built with the club. So that was my only discrepancy with the whole way it worked out, because it wasn't like, oh, actually, a knee-jerk situation, knee-jerk decision. But I think, listen.”
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“For a game, you sit in the chat or would make fun of him a little bit. There's two different ways you ridicule and get someone in line, either humour or be infirm. And he probably got both. But it was. You could sense a change coming. It was coming. And obviously, social media, I think, has accelerated that, definitely.”
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“Everyone always clings on to the history in it and the past. That's the problem as a football fan. I'm the same, like, you just want it to be like it was before, please. But it's never going to be the same. It may be a successful or even more successful one day, but it will never be the same. Our expectation then will sometimes just have to change it a little bit. But yeah, I mean. Again, it was coming in anyway because, like, for instance, I remember Gerard Piquet hugging and fist pumping, etc., in a tunnel with fabricas. Now, we had mad rivals with Arsenal at that point, like Pizza Gate and all that stuff. And he got hammered after that PK in our change room. What are you doing?”
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“So, I don't know, it's just like it's different. So, going into battle, into a game. I've got no emotional tyres or no social media ties to anybody So there seemed to be that bit more. I don't know if there's more passion before to now, but it seemed to be like there was. And I think all of this stuff with social media makes it a bit more fluffy. And people are hugging and shaking hands and whatnot now because they've spoken or had a message or liked a post. Very different.”
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“It's all friendly now, isn't it? Everyone's mates, everyone's like, for instance, everyone's mates and commenting on each other's posts on social media. So you're more attached to someone. You're more involved with someone. Whereas before, I would only see certain players twice a year, home and away. So I've got no attachment to you, so to me have a bit of venom or to go at you a little bit was normal, and I've got no qualms about doing that because I ain't going to see you again. Don't care. I might see you at England camp or something like that, but I slept three or four times a year. Exactly, we're not really matey. Whereas now, in the tunnel all shaking, cuddling, yeah, man, comment on your post the other day is very different. I'm not saying it's bad, but it's just different.”
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“In the head, so he looked devastated with it. But that was one. I had had a few scrapes of him in terms of, I didn't agree with things that he'd done a couple of times and I was screaming and he didn't take too well to it and he lost it and he just would go purple over the top of you and just spray you screaming in front of you like that. Crazy. But he It was never personal, which is why you respected it, and you kind of always washed away because... You knew that deep down, he just wants you to do. I mean, it wasn't vindictive, it wasn't personal. Just do what I'm telling you to do, you'll win.”
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“Crazy one, yeah, that was crazy. It was mad. It was funny. It was actually funny. I've got to be honest. I can't lie. The manager was he kicked the boot in anger because he aspects to do something tactically that he didn't carry out. And he booted, and listen, anybody, I don't care. Ronaldo playing to the Messi wouldn't have hit the target the way he hit the target. It was so clean. And the ball went in slow mo like, bang It hit him in the head, and then obviously Beck Scott was upset, got up, and I just remember the gaffer was devastated. You could tell, you could see when you looked at him, he sat down and he was just slumped almost like. That's not what you've done. He kicked the boot for, kicked it in anger, and it accidentally hit the.”
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“Craziness like the old generation, like probably my generation, probably the last generation that you could do that with. The next ones, the younger ones, that Anderson's, Zanannis, the Ronaldo's, etc. That's not the way that they don't respond as well to that type of. Criticism and anger and aggressiveness.”
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“Yeah. And you're not his mate. No, you're not his mate. I'll speak to him more now than I did when I Because there was that line And that he felt was always needed to be there, that we can have a little laugh here and there, but in the end of the day, I'm the manager. You guys do your thing there and have a laugh, etc. But then there's that line you don't go past. So, but you just got it right. And I think that's down to experience as well. He would have learned that. And a lot of the guys used to say he was even crazier before you guys came when he was younger. So he's obviously, and he worked out as well the new generation of player couldn't take Anger and”
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“You're going to come in and not know nobody. And that's another one of these, Salax's great traits is that he knew everything about everyone. Like if my granddad was in hospital once, my granddad probably twice in the players lounge after a game. Knew my granddad's favorite drink, brandy. Flowers turn up at my mum's house. Do you know what I mean? It's like. That stuff there, then people are coming to work for you every day. After stuff like that, it's little things, little details, not any time out of your diary, really. His PH probably done it all. His name's at the bottom Like little percentages like that are just a key.”
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“I think it's understanding people. I don't think you treat any two people the same in that sense. The blanket treatment I don't think is the best way to treat a team. Because everyone's different. Everyone takes advice differently. Everyone takes criticism differently. So you've got to be able to pick the right people to be able to shout out, to pick the right people. You've got to get an arm round. And that's about, as again, a manager, a captain, knowing that team, knowing that the players individually, all this coming into work and ghosting everybody is mad, I don't get it. I don't think you can create that environment for success.”
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“I talk about this with my missus quite a lot now. Some of the stuff that we're talking about memories and whatnot and how we spoke to so and so or what's happening in the change room would never happen in the office because it's like you say it's like that relationship's over. Gone too far, whereas you can have a fight at football and then you're shaking hands and having a laugh in the shower after. It's so different. It's just a different way of working.”
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“I mean, just like that's just like calculated this is what I'm doing for the goodness of my team and the betterment of my team is good, man.”
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“I know he just loves that beyond how he was he thinking about that, etc. Oh, I always talk about the manager. Look back and said, anything he'd done was like calculated like the way he spoke on the TV, blaming the refuge. Very rarely did he come on, he didn't come on TV and ever hammer none of the players individually. We could lose a game. And the referee will be the back page the next day. He's taken heat off us. He's making us think about it's not us. We're not down in the doldrum. It's because of the referee. That's dangerous sometimes. You've got to get yourself accountability. But you make stares enough self-accountability in the building, but also the focus is over there now, not on us as a team, so we go again. That pressure, oh they've lost, they're not as good anymore. The referee was the reason.”
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“We used to talk about it all the time, especially me and Emmanuel Vidic. And Vita's a deep guy, loves talking about deep style, gets deep into stuff, yeah, he loves it”
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“Like normally you miss a game, you want to go home and cry about it. Do you know what I mean? But he's managed to build you back up. And that's my management. And in any industry, that's like a massive part of, again, the culture, but maintaining, sustaining a successful company or successful football club. You need to be able to build people, pick them up, knock them down sometimes, but be able to keep them on that track with you.”
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“I don't know, man. That's just, I think that's something that's inside. Being able to deal with people, read people, treat your team. Do you know what I mean? So that they're running through brick walls for you. Because he'd come in a room and he'd say to you, you're not playing. You'd want to scream and you'd be like, blood will be boiling. They had leaved the room You go and say change room. You're sitting in there, do you know everyone up, come on, boys, not sulking? Because he's told you Tuesday you're playing because I need you for that game Missed this one. This is a big game, but you're going to play on Tuesday.”
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“And to be fair, he said, you know what, I understand. And I'm sorry for the way I reacted. But that stuff like that, he might make a mistake or he'd done that wrong, but he'd always rectify it. He'd always come back round. You'd get you back around somehow. And because he was just like a, I don't know, he just, he knew how to deal with people. He knew how to treat people. To get the best out of him for what his main goal was.”
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“Situation happened with him and John Terry, and I decided not to wear during that period once a year all the teams are given t-shirts, show races in the red card or kick races out one of the campaigns. I wasn't willing to wear it because I didn't believe that they supported enough during that time. So I said, I'm not wearing it. He went crazy. Find me. I was like. End up winning the game, which was okay, which was lucky, but the next day I went into his office to just try and explain to him why I hadn't won the t-shirt.”
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“Do you know it's weird when people die or when people retire? You only remember the good stuff, really. You only think about what they, their existence before becomes magnified and they're built up even bigger sometimes. And Fergie, I think that's with him as well because you just don't. I can think of instances or tactics he'd got wrong. That's easy to find, but. But he had always makes stuff right it was weird like Even for instance, the anti racism stuff. And the situation, I saw a documentary, my brother. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so he”
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“Since I've retired, it's like You go in and try and be like someone else, you're going to fail because you can't be like the original. But if you're taking bits from elsewhere, you might be able to get beyond that what you see as the best because you're getting more. You're taking more good things from that person, but then from various other people to build maybe past that. And that's the way I try and work with stuff now in my life. There's no one person going that's going to make me the best at what I want to be, but a group and taking from everywhere, I've got a better chance.”
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“Yeah, I think it was extinctive. That's just him. And don't forget his experience as well would have played a big part in that. He was at the club for like 26 or so years, 27 years. So there's a valuable amount of experience gained in that time. But I always look at it like when I went into the Main United Changing Room, I sat there and just looked around and thought, who's good at what? And let me just take elements of these people and add it to my game and my preparation and my recovery. And that's what I'd done. Ryan Giggs was great at recovery and preparation, done yoga and stuff like that, took that out of his book. Roy Keene Leadership, the Way Demanded Standards on a Daily Basis, Scozy's Best Levels in Training Every Day, all them things I was just trying to be like little parts of different people. And then that allows hopefully for you to grow into a better person, a better player, etc. And I think that's the same with other industries and business.”
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“Ship Manu That's why I didn't think about it, but that's why I'd done it. And I'm right now, or I'm wrong, whatever it is. Do you know what I mean? That's how we think about certain things that Fergie done. You think actually he weren't just lucky, man. He actually obviously was. Plotting and planning that type of stuff.”
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“It's so true, man. And again, like you say, that reverberates around the dressing room. You better stay in line. You better just live by the rules that are here already and stay part of that culture, the hard work, the intensity, the respect. And so he will dig out the most experienced player. Who hasn't even done anything, and you sit there and go, Why are you shout But he was doing that to you because he knew you could take it, but the effect didn't have on the young ones or the other ones. Do you know what I mean? The mind games, man. I love it. It's good. But you only, it's the mad thing is, anyone in it. Like you're saying, you're talking about social change. You probably didn't realize at the time And when you sit back and you're outside and you look back in that bubble, you think,”
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“Same with Rude Van Instroy. You're thinking, how are we going to score goals now, man? Who's going to score us the goals? Rooney and Ronaldo are really young, still inexperienced. He had that belief and that vision just to like it was the culture over everything.”
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“So you look at Ro The captain was the leader. Rules have been broken, you gone. David Beckham, peak of his powers. Gran out of a spice Bring in all sorts of viables to the football club, making it an international play. You later, Yap Stam, the best centre half in the world at the time. Said something about some of the players in a book or something. Goodbye. Rude Vanisteroy, the best number nine in the world at the time goodbye. Like, if you don't fit the culture and you don't adhere to the rules that are there, good night. We'll move on and we'll build around other people Crazy slack, and at the time you sit there and you think, Bex, you can't sell Becks, man. Jesus, who's going to come in? Like number seven, sells all the shirts. Like, everyone loves him everywhere we go, Becks is like a Beatles. Like crazy.”
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“Yeah, and that's what Shirex Ferguson was great at. If he saw something that was going to be detrimental to the culture of the club, it was out. That was non-negotiable.”
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“Then we'll do it. And that's again, that's not our culture. At Barcelona they play, they wait. That's their culture. That's not our culture. You want to play Barcelona wait? Go Barcelona. Here's not the same, and if you don't buy into our culture, you won't be here long That's the way it was at United. If you came and you weren't in the buy into the culture and immerse yourself in it and become part of the fabric of the place, you weren't there more than a year or two. Or you definitely wasn't an integral member of that squad. And so it was definitely, like you say, the culture is just, you have to become part of that culture that you go into if it's strong enough.”
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