Rio Ferdinand has said that he told Manchester United to snap up current Evertonian Ben Godfrey when he was at Norwich and they were willing to let him go for a nominal sum.
Everyone knows that Manchester United has struggled in their Centre-Back pairings and people have opined that Harry Maguire and Victor Lindelof are too similar to be put alongside each other.
Ben Godfrey came to Everton for a sum of £25 million and has grown from strength to strength under Carlo Ancelotti. He started his career as a left-sided wing-back but finds himself as a pivotal part of that Everton Centre-back pairing.
The 23-year-old has impressed consistently and has even been linked to an England call-up as his physicality and game sense make him an ideal modern-day defender.
Ferdinand has been talking to various guests on his podcast ‘Vibe with Five’ where he calls on different guests from the footballing world and shares his thoughts with them.
He even called Ravel Morrison in one of his earlier episodes where he discussed the trajectory of his footballing career and where things might have gone wrong for him at a nascent stage in his professional career as a footballer.
Manchester United has spent huge sums of money trying to bolster their defence but one can still notice that the little errors creep up time and again.
Marcos Rojo and Phil Jones are on the fringes and just like Ferdinand many of us were thinking what could have been if Manchester United had to snap him up earlier when he was available for a much cheaper fee.
