Amorim's Process? Grealish's Future? Ronaldo's World Cup? | Rio Answers YOUR Questions!

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1:25so Joe man we're here we've got a Q &A section this is what we're doing today yeah yeah this is one I like this type of stuff the Q &A is engaging with the people engaging with the community let's go man alright cool man the first question that we've got here is from at United Con and the question is would you trust the process with Amirim and invest some money into his players or hold off until the winter 100 % invest have to you can't give a man a job and then not invest in his project. You've got to invest in his project. If he's going to foul, let him foul using his tools, using his players.

2:00You can't let him foul and he's using another man's players. Doesn't happen. So 100 % United come on with support in Amarim. And so it doesn't work with his players. And I think where United have finished it's clear that there are players that need him. You need him. If, for example, you were in Liverpool's situation, then there's an argument where you You go, well, actually, you know what? Like they've just won the league or they've had a good squad. You got here at Bry Charmer. He's asking, where would you advise Jack Grealish to play next season? This is a good one. Jack Grealish, I would advise to play where he will be happy.

2:40He needs to find happiness, I think with himself playing football, but also within the team. And I don't think any player's happy when they're not playing, especially the player that's been used to being the star man in their team. Since he was a kid, he'd have been star man. So to think that he's now not even being considered for big moments and big games, I think he needs to go where he's going to play and he's going to find happiness. Because at the end of your career, I think, yes, you do want trophies, but at the same time, you want to be happy doing that as well. You want to be a part of it.

3:11I want to see that smile and that swagger and that enjoyment factor when he plays football again. And I don't think we've seen it for a while. If you are thinking of a club for him and it's not City, would Villa not be the option? Or what is the club that comes to mind? Villa would be great for him. But again, if they don't sell anyone, where does he fit in right now? Because unless they get rid of obviously Rashford. But Morgan Rodgers plays out there as well. Do you think they've moved on at this point? I would like to see it where he gets a bit of a free roll. If there's a team out there that can afford to play a structure where it goes back to that almost like a 10 or one of the eight positions that's allowed to just roam a bit, that's what I would do with Jack really.

3:59Because I think if you play him more centrally and you just give him a bit of freedom, like we saw when he was at Villa, the kid can unlock. He can unlock, man. He can hurt teams. I'm going to have to go abroad, man, because when I'm looking at the teams now, it's really hard to say where he would get that freedom. If I'm him, you know where I go? Go on. Saudi. Yeah. If I'm Jack Greenish, I'm going Saudi, bro. I'm getting my feet in the sand. Yeah, but if you love a drink, yeah, is that the place to go? Yeah, but he likes a drink in the off season, bro. Does he like it in the in season? Do you know that?

4:32Stop. No, do you know? No. But it's not... He won't be driven by, can I go somewhere if I... He's not alcoholic, bro? No, it's lifestyle. He's not Alky. No, I didn't say he was an Alky come on, don't say that. but it's like lifestyle isn't it like because they're strict they're strict with their drinking is what I'm saying yeah that's fine the culture's very different but listen I'm sure he's a man who can adapt to a different culture he's gonna still have holidays still be able to go elsewhere like I don't think he'll be driven by oh there's no alcohol being served there right I'm not going but the funny thing is it's like yeah some people they've got a particular way they like to live their life and I'm not saying it's just drinking it could be other stuff as well do you know what I mean and you know how those guys move they're very they're known to be very rigid.

5:13That's how they do things in their country, right? And if for example, you have a man that wants to be a little bit free and moves how he moves, I don't know if he's going to... I don't know. It's a genuine question. Don't shoot me down for asking a question. I could be wrong, innit? So educate me, innit? I don't think that's going to be a consideration for him. But I'm saying if I was him, I'd probably go in Saudi right now. I say go Italy or Spain. I think if he goes there... I'd love to see him in Napoli. That's what I'm saying. With that atmosphere and that. A place where he can be loved and he can do what he's going to do.

5:46Marseille. Deserby. Deserby, yeah. Where the fans, where I know the fans will love him. Exactly. Olympic Marseille, somewhere like that. Go and play there, man. Oh, man. Anyway, our essential Ferry Liza. Hello from Ghana. Yeah, shout out to Ghana. GH in the building. As players, how can you tell if a manager is good or not? Is it a feeling? Oh, good question.

6:11it could be one training session it could be a week it could be a couple of months something will happen that you go that don't smell right that don't look right what's that about? now before you carry on this is not we're not necessarily saying the managers you've played under because you've mentored a lot of people you've got kids in football you've got friends that have played with under loads of other managers if you can give us it doesn't have to be a person but examples in training what would tell you in training this guy and the guy? Well listen David Moyes obviously came to May United and it didn't work out for him but and this isn't to kind of bad mouth David Moyes I think he's been he's proven that he's a wonderful manager top manager what he's done at West Ham what he's done at Everton before this time now and now this time has been like nothing short of like remarkable he's been a joke but when he came to United I just remember like and this is the difference between managing clubs at that level compared to managing someone like United which is the back of winning a Premier League he came into that environment and there was one training session that we had that made me go I don't like this we were playing against I've said this before on the pod but we were playing against Chelsea and they had Eden Hazard Danger Man right and in the training session we had a walk through where you've got 11 of our players who are playing against theirs.

7:39We've got 11 Chelsea players. And he marked out like a 10 by 10 box on the training pitch in the area that Eden Hazard occupies most of the time and where he receives the ball. And he said to Tom Cleverley, don't move from there. When we haven't got the ball, that's where you've got to be because Eden Hazard will be there. We want you to make sure you look after him. And I just thought, this isn't what we do, man. And you're going to do it next week against Coutinho when we played Liverpool as well. And we'd done it two weeks on a spin. And I was like, we don't go into... Did you win those games or lose?

8:12I can't remember. But we don't go in. The result would not have mattered to me. Because it's like, we're going into this game worrying about the opponents. We never do that. And it wasn't like, oh, look after him. But when we get it, I want you to get on and I want you to impact the game like this. It was all really focused on you stopping. And that just wasn't the mentality of us as a man. And people that say this was the worst Man United team that won the Premier League, et cetera, you could say that. but our mentality still wasn't this contained an individual. It was like, we're better than most teams.

8:40We're better than most, if not all teams. We can go toe-to-toe. We'll play. And it just, it was a shift in mentality that I was like, that's a bad smell to me. And obviously it played out how it played and that wasn't the only factor that meant that but there are situations like the question was, as players, how can you tell if a manager is good or not? I think you can tell if he's right or wrong for you. And that was one that said to me, this isn't right. And were you the only player that felt like that? Or did you have that little chat with other players? There's a look straight away in training when he's talking about it and the players are like, wow.

9:16And then all of a sudden you get in the steam room. You get in the pool. You're on the massage bed and people are chatting. It's like, right, this was a bit of a mad bomb, wasn't it? And then it's like people start talking. And that ain't good because then it becomes a bit of a cancerous environment and it starts spreading and negativity starts coming into the place. And I think that's what happened and that affected them. That wasn't the only thing. There's a few things that happened. And I think David Moyes, I think, in time, will probably go, I could have done this, that and that different.

9:44But that's all with hindsight. It's much easier to talk like that and say that. Is that clip true that you guys were watching, he made you watch the season? Phil Jagielka. No, no, no. No, no. Why did that come out? I don't know. I think it was just like some like, it would have been a meme today type thing. Do you know what I mean? it was just like what am I going to watch with Phil Jagielko and learn hey Phil no I'm joking I'm joking no no shout out Phil I've done the Everton game the other day of him yeah but no there was no there was no video from Phil Jagielko right man we've got loads still to come right on this pod but we'll be back shortly after this

10:23therapy's biggest impact doesn't show up in some dramatic breakthrough it shows up in the smallest moments you bite your tongue instead of escalating. You put your phone down instead of firing off that text. You say what you actually mean instead of what would hurt someone else the most. Nobody applauds those moments, but they quietly change your life. That's what growing feels like. And that's exactly what Grow Therapy is here for. Grow is therapy that works, covered by insurance. Sessions average$21 with insurance and some pay as little as$0 depending on their plan. There are no subscriptions, no long-term commitments, You just pay per session.

11:02Grow connects you with thousands of high-quality, licensed therapists across the U.S., offering both virtual and in-person sessions, nights and weekends. You can search by what matters, like insurance, specialty, identity, or availability. And you can book a therapy session in minutes and begin in as little as two days, not the national 48-day average. See if you could pay as little as$0 for therapy in seconds at growtherapy.com slash start now. That's growtherapy.com slash start now. Growtherapy.com slash start now. Availability and coverage vary by state and insurance plan.

11:44You got a next one. At Mind Aucklandia. What was the moment, by the way, these names are trying to test us. what was the moment you realised you were actually good when your confidence started to go up I've said this a few times yeah I always knew I was one of the better players in all the teams I played in the only place I was never the best player but one of the better ones was on my estate because all my friends are older than me 2, 3, 4, 5 years older than me and sometimes even I was kind of grown men when I was like 12 so I was never the best but when I played at my school when I played for my club teams I was always one of the best so I always knew I was one of the best but I never knew if I was going to make it.

12:24So you can always be the best in your team as a young kid, but are you the best in your team, but are you going to make it? And the answer would have been, I don't know, man, I'm not sure. Then I played one game against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in the Southern Junior Floodlit Cup. It's an under-18s game. It's the second leg. West Ham had lost the first leg, I think, 1-0 or 2-0. And some of the older players went on tour with the first team or went somewhere to the Dallas Cup or something. So there was like a few spaces up for grabs for young under 16s players. Myself, I was still at school. I made my way there.

12:57The team went on a coach together. I made my way from school in my school uniform to Stamford Bridge. I think I was 15 playing in an under 18s game. Go there. Center midfield. Center midfield. Batted it up. Yeah. I was bad. Yeah. On the day. I know. I remember the game now. Drifting past people, shaking people. Whoops, see you later. Yeah. These are players I was playing against. I remember Junior Mendes was in the Chelsea team. He'd been around the first team at Chelsea. So I'm thinking, these men, and I was always like, right, these guys are bad, wicked players. But I played that game and I felt, worst case, as good as everyone on the pitch, if not better than most.

13:35And I walked off that pitch that day and I went, if anybody had spoke to me, I'd have looked them in the eye and gone, I will be a professional footballer. I don't know what level yet, but I'm definitely going to be a professional footballer. And I'm looking like minimum champ right now. Wow. That's what I was thinking in my head. Because it felt like it just came too easy to me. Yeah. And it was like... Would you say that's a gift though? Because you know, everyone talks about training hard. And we have to be very honest here because don't get me wrong. Some players, it don't matter how much you train.

14:05And we all love the Cristiano stories. Sometimes it's just not for you, innit? Like you're looking at the guy right about now, innit? But don't get me wrong. I could play. I'm decent. but at 18 you were already no at 16 you were being called up is it England camp was it 6, 17 yeah 16 16 so that's a year or two later you're being called up in the same camp as Gaza you know Shearer to watch for Euro 96 I went and trained I went and trained with them yeah it was just a quick after that game it all went like that and like I don't know confidence is that's what made me understand confidence I was confident before that but I'd go into the if I was under 16s I'd go and play in the youth team and be a little bit rice the under 18s like and then i went into that game and after that game everything just became much easier because my confidence i'm meant to be here like i'm actually i should be starting for the 18s not being on the bench that's how i started thinking it was just like that confidence shift was so different i went training with the under 18s i get called over to the first team and it just felt i felt natural i felt like there was no there was a little bit of fear but there wasn't the mad anxiety and like sometimes it can overcome a player where they just can't perform yeah and every situation from then i just i kind of normalized because before that i'd go to trials with england and go to trials with my county etc i'd never play well at trials too much pressure i'd go to the trials and it would i'd never perform because i built them up to be so meaningful and so big they overwhelmed me whereas i played that one game I played and I don't know why, I just relaxed and the game came to me.

15:40I played what was presented to me in the game, played well. And my confidence just went, but the foundations of that are hard work. Yeah. Repetition, graft, always turning up, always being there, good or bad days, rain or sunshine, sleet or snow. And then that gives you the platform and foundations to go on, have them moments. at imz mz do you expect cristiano to win the world cup in america in 2026 wow they can they've just won the nation's nation's cup they just beat the european champions on penalties yeah so they can will they anything's possible will they i don't know but they can they've got the best left back in the world they've got some of the best midfielders in the world in Neves in Bruno Fernandes they've got a deep squad they've got players who's a bit of a maverick like Rafael Liao can come on and do a madness if he wants and they've got someone who can always put the ball in the back of the net and that's Cristiano so they've got key components it's just whether it all comes together I think the manager found out a lot about himself the other day Roberto Martinez and I think he doesn't get enough credit in that game the first half tactically he got it wrong he played Jao Neves he's been one of the best midfielders in Champions League this year and in European football played him out of position played him right back he got smoked yeah right and you're thinking how are you playing you've got Vettino in midfield who he played with for PSG and they cleaned up and won everything and you take him out of that equation play him right back because you thought you're going to have a lot of the ball against one of the most possession dominant teams in the game but the great thing was half time made a decision substitution Semedo comes on Neves off fixed it yeah and then won the game so there's a he's shown in game he can tune fine tune and find a way to win so that'll be I think confidence again going forward will be a good thing for them this one I've got to let you read out because this guy good vibes John what's going on good vibes John what's going on shout him out hey Rio are you coming stateside for the pre-season tour you know what it's in the diary right now it could change but it's in the diary that I'm coming out there so make sure you're about we can have a little cook up if you want I'll go out for a few beers 100 % his content is hilarious yeah he makes me laugh he's a funny guy keep on doing what you're doing man we all see it so that's it man listen I love the Q &A's man hopefully this encourages you we're shouting you guys out we're going to be putting this on socials getting the comments and yeah that's all we can ask really 100 % comments are always being read be in there thanks guys for listening to this episode of Rio Reacts hope you've enjoyed the show and if you have make sure you leave us a review and follow this Rio Ferdinand Presents feed to make sure you never ever miss an episode If you've got a point you think we should be discussing, I want to put us on the spot with a question you want answering.

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