Rio Ferdinand has shared the brilliant story that Ravel Morrison would tell the Manchester United players at lunch that he is ‘signing for Arsenal’, as he told his own official YouTube channel.
Now at the age of, 28, Morrison, who is a boyhood Arsenal fan, was once the rising prospect in English football and expected to hit the very top of the game.
For one reason another, the Old Trafford academy product never made it to the top, as he came through an era where the club that produced him and Arsenal were seen as the top two teams in English football.
When speaking to Morrison himself, Ferdinand amazingly shared that he would tell Man United players such as Gary Neville that ‘Arsenal are better than Man United’ or he is joining the North London club.
“I have always known you as an Arsenal fan,” said Ferdinand. “At the training ground, this is how confident this kid was.
“We would be getting our lunch, so, me, Giggsy, Scholes, Nev, Waz and we are all sitting down at our tables. And he would be in the queue.
“I remember he said to Gary Neville once, ‘Arsenal are better than United’. Or ‘I am going to Arsenal. I am signing for Arsenal soon if I can’. Like mad stuff like that.”
Whilst Ferdinand lifted trophy after trophy at Old Trafford, he would have seen some talent come through the system in English football, both at previous clubs, at Man United and for England.
Yet it wasn’t the now World Cup winner Paul Pogba who Ferdinand saw as the best youngster he had ever seen or even the great Cristiano Ronaldo, but Morrison himself, as posted by the Mirror.
In the end, Morrison didn’t put on the colours of Arsenal, but he did represent a London club in West Ham, and in truth, that’s when he perhaps showed some of the best football of his staggered career.
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