Be called by the FC Barcelona or the Real Madrid is perhaps one of the greater dreams for any footballer from the same moment in that it initiates his career. However, also it can have players with other interests, that would not be had to arrive to the Camp Nou or to Santiago Bernabéu.
One of them has been Rio Ferdinand, ancient defender of the Manchester United, the one who in a recent interview for the Daily Mail has declared that both institutions wanted to do with his index card in the year 2008, just after the club obtained the third Champions of his history in Moscow in front of Chelsea.
Nevertheless, it has signalled that it did not have interest any in abandoning his current team when his agent indicated him that the two main clubs of LaLiga were interested in his services: "Always I had it in the head (the to leave to the foreigner). Memory that after we won to the Barcelona in the semifinals of the League of Champions of 2008, there was a conversation with them".
Ferdinand, loyal to the United in the best moment of his career
From the Spanish capital also had called and offers, as it has indicated the ex player: "Afterwards, it was the Real Madrid, but there was escalado a mountain to arrive to the United, to arrive to a club where felt that it went to win. How you leave this? I said him to my agent that would not go to any part".
Of this way, Rio Ferdinand has ensured that it kept firm in his posture to continue under the orders of Sir Alex Ferguson in one of the best decades for the English football, in which the Network Devils contested two finals of the Champions, one where were champions and another in which they fell in front of the Barça.