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Wednesday 31 July 2013

Moyes wise to trust us old boys says Manchester United stalwart Rio Ferdinand



Moyes wise to trust us old boys says Manchester United stalwart Rio Ferdinand

"The manager is going to try to implement parts of his own style, but he’s not silly - he knows he’s coming into a title-winning team"
United front: Moyes has been picking the brains of the champions' old sweats
United front: Moyes has been picking the brains of the champions' old sweats
Matthew Peters
Rio Ferdinand says Manchester United’s core of experienced players will help David Moyes make a winning start to his Old Trafford reign.
Moyes has canvassed the likes of Ferdinand, Ryan Giggs and Michael Carrick in the four weeks since he succeeded Sir Alex Ferguson as the champions' manager, drawing on their insight to help him settle in to his new role.
And Ferdinand said the decision by Moyes to look to the established members of the squad he inherited from now-retired Fergie showed the 50-year-old has an open mind and is willing to do whatever it takes to maintain the club’s success.
“I just look at it as if I was taking the job on,” Ferdinand said in Hong Kong, after the final game of United’s pre-season tour of the Far East and Australia.
“Would you lean on players who have been here for many years, for their experience and to ask questions and to better yourself? Of course you would. You’d do the same in any job.
“But I think the manager is fortunate he’s got someone like Giggsy, among others, like myself and Carrick, who have been here for many years and know the fabric of the club.
“If there’s anything we can pass on, with our experiences, to help him to become a better manager and to help us win more trophies, then that’s fantastic.
“Winning the league last season, I don’t think that’s going to change massively from this season, in terms of the way we play and things like that.
“The new manager is going to try to implement parts of his own style into our team, but he’s not silly - he knows he’s coming into a championship-winning team.
“I think it’s still too early to talk about stuff like that [comparing Moyes and Ferguson].
“The manager before was a one-off, there won’t be anyone like him ever again, and you can’t expect anyone to fill his boots exactly the same way.
“And with this manager, you’ve got to give him time and hopefully he is at a club where he will get that.”
One of the features of Ferguson’s reign was his willingness to give young players a chance and Moyes followed that blueprint on tour, giving exposure to the likes of Jesse Lingard, Adnan Januzaj, Michael Keane, Ben Amos and Wilfried Zaha.
All acquitted themselves well during United's five-game, three-week trip, in particular Januzaj and Lingard.
Zaha, a £15million January signing from Crystal Palace who was loaned back to the Londoners, did enough to suggest he could play a key role in the first-team this season.
“The best part of the tour has been seeing the young lads come through,” said Ferdinand. “Obviously, fitness is the most important thing, but the young lads have come through and shown they have the right qualities.
“If you asked anyone else in the club they’d tell you the same thing about Jesse - that he’s a great little player. On the last tour he was one of our best players, but it didn’t work out for him last season.
“This season it remains to be seen, but he couldn’t have done any more to put himself in the shop window in terms of the manager.
“Obviously, Zaha came with a big price-tag for a young player, but he’s come in here, he’s got a great personality and he’s fitted in straight away.
“You can see he has the potential to become a really good player and this is the best place to do that.”
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 United have yet to make a signing under Moyes, but Ferdinand is not concerned:
“We’re confident. If we had to go into the new season with the players we’ve got now, I’d be more than confident of doing well and winning trophies, but if the manager can add to that and chooses to add to that, then great. But that remains to be seen.”
United take on AIK Stockholm in Sweden next Tuesday, where Wayne Rooney is expected to make his much-anticipated comeback fom injury, before Ferdinand’s testimonial against Sevilla at Old Trafford three days later.
Although the testimonial is to honour Ferdinand’s 11 years of service to United, the 34-year-old defender acknowledged it as another vital chance for Moyes to give players some vital game-time ahead of the new season.
“It’s a bit of both,” said Ferdinand. “The manager wants it to be a proper game, with players getting some vital minutes in, but it’s an honour for me to have been able to play for this club for so many years.
“To be granted a testimonial is something I’m very proud of. Hopefully I can share it and enjoy it with the fans.
“You just don’t imagine it, getting a testimonial. You don’t look that far ahead.
As a football player, you just think about the next game. It sounds boring, but it’s true - you never imagine yourself in those shoes.
“Just like with winning trophies. When you first go into the United changing-room in your first season and you see Giggsy’s got five, six or seven trophies, you think, ‘I’d love to be there one day’ but you don’t know - you might only get one or two, and that’s it.
“So to have won as much as I have has been incredible.”

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