Its funny but when people say Vidic had a rough start I cant remember it at all besides that 4-3 loss at Ewood Park when Rio played as holding midfielder. I remember Evra having a shocking few months until overnight he became brilliant (how I remember it) but not Vidic.
Nemanja Vidic retires from football.
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Meh
He left us when we needed him most.
He left us when we needed him most.
Nonsense,he left us just in time.He knew that knee injury will screw him completely,so guess he tried to go somewhere where its slower but even that wasnt enough. Kinda glad that he left when he did,because after everything he gave to this club (just check some GIFs),we would still have lunatics calling him names here on CAF after his drop in form (it would happen at some point),mentioning his wages etc.
Absolute nonsense. He left at the right time, and even if it wasn't, we owed it to him after everything he'd ever done for us.
He held our defense like it was the Serbian border and he was the last man standing. I doubt if we will ever see those levels of commitment again.
Thanks for the memories, Vida.
He may have left at the right time, but announcing it months before was a bit of a kick in the balls, especially with the club seemingly falling to pieces.
Nah he's Inter's version of Bastian. He left when he knew he was finished and allowed others to pay off his retirement bill
Yeah it's become a bit of a myth that. Evra was the one who looked like total shite for the half season after he arrived in 2006. I seem to remember Vidic was pretty solid from the start.
Sorry i dissagree we really needed winners round the club when SAF retired and him leaving was too much of a loss on the dressing room and training ground... Totally selfish I know but I can only see that him and others let us down. I do not want to take away for the years of loyal service but thats how i feel about him.
I accept your point. But I love having BFS round and his atitude to stay and just keep his head down and stay fit. Only makes him better in my opinion. Think its good for the young players to see also. It may not work out this month but if you do the right things and work hard you can force your way in to contention.
It wouldn't have helped anything if he stayed. He left at the right time.
He'd clearly had enough of Moyes, don't blame him tbh.
Mate, I watch the Serie A as much as I watch the EPL. Vidic was finished. He moved to the Serie A because it was played at slower tempo then the EPL and even though he was right, he was shite there.
PS, I understand how important an influential player can be to a team but ultimately players are there to play football. When they cannot do that then they should retire. How can a kid take an experienced player seriously when he knows that that player can't run anymore and is kept there because he cant be kicked out? Once an old player loses his dignity he's only good for the glue factory.
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Losing Rio,Vidic and Evra all at once was too much and all of sudden we were lining up with our back up defenders as our first choice defence and it was terrible.
Anyone denying Rooney's class is nothing short of delusional IMO.
Mate this is pure exaggeration. Matić, Ivanović etc...they never gave them electric, fired up patriotic speeches and we still love them over here.
Fact is he really never looked nearly as good playing for NT as he did for UTD.
That handball penalty at the 2010 WC, that missed penalty against Slovenia and his subsequent retirement from NT.
His retirement after that missed penalty left a bad taste...
My second favorite player. There will never be another one like him.
You notice that something is wrong when your best defenders are in their mid 30s
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He would sort out the whining pussies that keep running to the press
The other problem with the quote is timing. It is one year after Kosovo declared independence and by that stage the heat was gone (in fact, even in 2008 there was absolutely no talk of war).
He was very bad at the time he left us. In fact, he was quite bad (although mostly injured) in the two seasons before it.
For sure, he would have got the Rooney treatment if he had continued at the club, simply because by that stage he was a shadow of the player he was before. I think that he left us at the right time (although I said back then that the time for him, Evra, Giggs and maybe Rooney, Fletcher and Carrick was to leave when Fergie retired) and didn't diminish his status.
True, the likes of Jones/Smalling and Evans should have been gradually easing one if not both Rio/Vidic out of the starting 11 but they weren't good enough to make it happen.
You might be overthinking this
It's obviously only meant as an anecdote, to characterise him in a funny way. A bit like when Mourinho came out with that story about Balotelli getting a red card in the 46th minute against Kazan, and some people managed to get upset over the fact that he actually got sent off in the 60th minute.
Was more prolific than majority of our current first XI, regardless of position.
No other way to put it. Such a brilliant defender and a lovable guy.
That's a bit over the top - great player, but I'm not sure he was a Lionel Messi-esque phenom.
Think he meant it in a way of liking a player, not ranking him as the best, second best etc.
Fair enough.
He left when Steve Round started showing him videos of Phil Jagielka. I'm just glad he went to Italy and not Strangeways.