The Toxic Dressing Room That Shocked Rio Ferdinand

[@aidangriffiths5075]

Its like when you go into a bad job. I started working in a hotel and the first thing several people said to me was how much they hated the place and working there and to watch out for one of the managers there. It just poisons the whole place immediately

[@Fortheemperor382]

I worked for 3 months at QPR’s training ground around the time Rednapp was manager. They had a facilities manager who was a toxic snake of a woman, EVERYONE hated her. The north african players were constantly late. Place was a joke

[@CyrilBlake-qu3vt]

Was her name Caroline by any chance

[@Fortheemperor382]

@@CyrilBlake-qu3vt yes it was

[@CyrilBlake-qu3vt]

@@Fortheemperor382 nasty witch. Taraabt spat at her. We used to call her Eileen off coronation Street

[@golfergti]

So glad I came across this video, our 18 day old baby passed away 4 weeks ago. And the advice regarding communicating to our kids, is an absolute gem. ❤

[@MachYew]

So sorry to hear that :( and glad you're able to find useful nuggets to help moving forward

[@teddyboy9497]

Light at the end of the tunnel will get easier but you will never forget them ❤

[@larryachiya2475]

Sorry. May God comfort you

[@Silphwave]

So sorry for your loss ❤

[@robbo03]

Sorry for your loss my friend

[@shahzadirani]

6:10 the bit about Anderson was good to hear. And Rio’s right, Anderson from 2007-2009 was a world class CM at the young age of 20-21.

[@User594gs57]

He really wasn’t stop talking nonsense he was atrocious

[@DubSalvation]

He was just a utility player

[@franklingoodwin]

He was never world class lol. Put down the pipe

[@Toshibaq]

Nope

[@markwilliams7054]

Jake is bad interviewer - he gives his interviewee the answer he wants rather than going with the answer they gave. He also spends his time half listening and prepping his next question rather than listening so that he can react to what was just said. So Rio took things in an interesting direction with his grief discussion and mentoring people within the dressing room, Jake just brings it back to an embarrassing 'this is my first week in radio producing' line of questioning... Rio then just moves on and gets back to what he was just talking about with Kate and the kids...

[@matthewsmith8727]

Jakes a complete melt there’s nothing about him that’s ‘high performance’ posh boy that’s been handed everything in life and has the audacity to try and tell people how to go about their business

[@TheDude69]

Gotta admire the mans honesty and work ethic. Rio is a beast through and through.

[@pepsiaxe2937]

Yet he cheated on his dying wife

[@CoolRunningsCo]

@@pepsiaxe2937were you there you saw him literally doing that

[@pepsiaxe2937]

@@CoolRunningsCo He already confirmed it and its widely known already lol

[@CoolRunningsCo]

@@pepsiaxe2937 Is that how you make a living, you a morality judge?

[@pepsiaxe2937]

@CoolRunningsCo Kid if you cheat on your wife who is dying of cancer your a wrongun end of

[@jasonrippon4974]

As an arsenal fan rio used to cause me stress but he is a standup lad and leader.

[@johnmitchell2269]

This was when QPR had Jenas, Joey Barton, SWP, Julio Cesar.

[@TORRES999ify]

Rio was there 2014- 15 .yes, Joey barton was there and SWP but Julio cesar played the12-13 season and jenas 13-14 . 2 out of 4 not bad tho He's talking about your adel taarabts,armand traore,,caulker. Players that didn't achieve what should of

[@StanleyHughes-u7e]

They did have a mad team if you deep it.

[@TORRES999ify]

@user-et1mt5ko4v Rio was finished at QPR But along with Taarabtt,Traore,Swp,caulker You had. Rob Green Danny Simpson., Hill,Dunne,Barton ,Austin, Remy,Hoilett,Dyer,Zamora Onouah,Sandro, Krankjaer,.Lot of good players on paper but to be fair To Rio he wasnt the only one that was finished by then.

[@matthewmoore3557]

@@TORRES999ifyqpr fan and totally agree, hurst hearing him say about what went on in our changing room. But it obviously happens. Spot on with our team we had a decent team

[@philbrainy2399]

Bosingwa was the worst one

[@siontimmy1]

That time players who had no desire to play for QPR only the money and QPR was good enough to surviving in PL with the players they had and when QPR relegated there were few players smiling and laughing

[@declangaming24]

Ferdinand, Barton, zamora, rob green believed in the squad but not the others

[@JakobAttrill]

@@declangaming24Barton didn’t, he came out and said he hated his time at qpr

[@HarryMaguiresForehead]

Jose bosingwa. That wanker laughed on the pitch at Reading minutes after pur relegation was confirmed! Will never forgive him for that

[@SerebralK]

I never understood why talking was so important. I would always hear people say that it's good to talk and i would genuinely always ask myself: But why? It's common advice but does it actually help at all? Are people just bullshitting trying to sound like they're helping? It was only when i finally went to therapy that i understood why talking is good. It's relief. Your chest starts to feel lighter. If you're anything like me, the weight of all the emotions you've repressed for many years starts to alleviate. So i couldn't agree more with Rio: communication is so, so important -- for dealing with grief, for feeling better about yourself, for if you're feeling depressed, for relieving anger, for everything. Anyone that's struggling: try talking to someone. Whoever you feel comfortable talking to, doesn't matter. You will be a better, happier person for it!

[@Leonsantos76]

A Legend of a United player and a brilliant bloke, fair play Rio, missed as a player but a great pundit

[@deeanderson1558]

You may not have enjoyed winning rio but you made millions of us United fans very happy for many years. Thank you

[@jamalrobinson2159]

Gave you hella value though for that money tho...no?

[@jarraandyftm]

@@jamalrobinson2159hella?

[@MrBenjigee]

@@jarraandyftm It's American slang for "a hell of a lot of"

[@jarraandyftm]

@@MrBenjigee it’s fucking stupid.

[@apintofbeer1667]

He was so bad at QPR that they had to leave him out of the team 5 minutes after joining

[@wb8905]

You mean he was approaching retirement and was out most of the season with injuries? They signed him for his leadership, nothing else because they’d just been promoted that season.

[@DC42087]

​@@wb8905we signed him to start and he was shite simple

[@ja7419]

​@@DC42087All of QPR was shite

[@DC42087]

@@ja7419 apart from austin who scored 18 yeh.

[@ExploreTheUKWithMe]

Remember reading a story of him getting the tube to training and having to walk miles was around the time he was the best center back in the world and the best paid no doubt, comes across well

[@ruffsqwadnastymovement3099]

Waffle..... when was he the best CB in the world playing for West Ham?? Absolute nonsense. Put respect on man like Maldini, Nesta and those of that ilk.

[@jarraandyftm]

The tube in Manchester eh?

[@welshie1979]

Rio was on huge money..but was well past it. Prob didnt help to detoxify

[@declangaming24]

He was on £50-60K a week at Manchester United he was on like £120K a week

[@zack7438]

That's the difference between surrounding yourself with elite minded individuals compared to other guys who are satisfied with the bare minimum.

[@yorkshiretea7620]

The 60k comment was from shaun wright Phillips

[@mikeadams7904]

Hated him at man utd but he seems like a good bloke whos been through a lot. Great defender

[@mrcopes165]

He cheated on his wife while she was dying of cancer, top bloke.

[@leonleon2276]

@@mrcopes165 oh really

[@leonleon2276]

@@mrcopes165 now I never knew that. But 100% should have known , being a man united man and all that. Well as a Liverpool fan I let me guard down and felt sorry for him as you can see clearly he still hurting…..but is it hurt or guilt…..the mug. Yeh he a wrongen.

[@adlalamb6229]

@@leonleon2276does it matter who a guy plays for if his wife is dying of cancer bro? Football is just a game let’s not forget

[@Universe6172]

@@mrcopes165 Not completely true though is it. I bet you’ve done something wrong in your life as well. To bring that up because someone’s praised him shows what type of person you are. Thankfully someone I don’t know. Hope you heal from whatever has made you toxic & bitter.

[@DC42087]

Charlie austin scored 18 that season even with qpr getting relegated

[@solshields]

And now he's missing open goals for Swindon so there you go

[@DC42087]

@@solshields well yeh hes 34 now lol

[@jarraandyftm]

@@DC42087he was shite then and he’s shite now.

[@CyrilBlake-qu3vt]

17 penalties you mean

[@DC42087]

@@CyrilBlake-qu3vt no that would be some sort of record no lol...

[@Slim_45]

When Rio mentioned when he was in the QPR dressing room and they were more pre occupied about asking how much the other earns..that reminded me of what I’ve seen in the Beckham Netflix doc! When Beckham went to La Galaxy they were in dire straits..near bottom of the league. And they interviewed a couple of the players who mentioned they would spend time timing how long becks would spend in the club toilets to work out how much he was earning when he was in there! They worked out he was still earning more in those minutes than them in in a whole season! Instead of concentrating on upping their game!

[@sgu02nsc66]

I mean, depending on your ability with maths, it only takes a minute or so to calculate that. If you’re avoiding that minimal level of cognitive ability you’re brainwashed rather than focussed. The point is, how do you deal with that information? If one thought is “that’s outrageously disparate considering we are all kicking a ball on a field”, then to be fair, they have a point to highlight that nonsense in my view.

[@Slim_45]

@@sgu02nsc66 Not sure what to make of your first paragraph! Timing Beckham’s shit breaks to work out how that translates to his earnings is rather a unproductive use of time especially when it could be spent focusing on your game! And, yes…they are all kicking a ball around a field! But along with professional sports comes salaries, sponsorships and endorsements. This is normally determined by the ability and marketability of a player. In Beckham’s case, not only was he a superior footballer to the rest of that team in 2007/08..(despite being mid 30’s) he was a much larger commercial entity. So why would he not earn more? I mean that would make sense, depending on your “cognitive abilities” for common sense and reasoning lol!

[@sgu02nsc66]

@@Slim_45 well, my first paragraph is self explanatory; sorry you’re having trouble with that. As for being able to command a high wage, yes you’re right, it can be argued for. It can also be argued that such degree of disparity makes a team cohesive difficult. Beckham still needs 10 others to do his job on the pitch. So, in conclusion: I feel it’s ok to spend a minute to comically highlight how much a club that pays wages, is paying Beckham to take a shit. You feel that that is somehow too damaging for the club. Guess we’ll agree to disagree.

[@Slim_45]

@@sgu02nsc66 Yes..or you can pay attention to the actual video and re listen to an ex international player confirm how whilst he was at Man Utd they never discussed such things amongst each other! Sorry your having trouble comprehending that…and my previous comments 👍🏽

[@sgu02nsc66]

@@Slim_45 have a look at ‘hierarchy of evidence’ and see where individual expert compares to peer opinion.

[@justinskeete5615]

Good clip this is 👏🏾

[@HighPerformanceClips]

Thanks Justin ❤️

[@neilrogers6231]

All the best mate and ur partner

[@RonanTOC]

We were a mess during our time in the premier league

[@r7..48]

We’re a mess now mate we’re going down 😂😂

[@RonanTOC]

@@r7..48 haha true was better when we were a mess with money

[@steaustin8789]

Wassup my man you take it easy pal bless y'al

[@Binlad]

Rionardo Fernandinho the big don not to sleep on wow

[@ronb5714]

What I get from this is that Ferdinand was brought into QPR, and paid a huge wage, to help transform the dressing room. And when he got there, he thought “Nah. Too difficult. I’ll take my massive wage though.” Not a leader, just a very good footballer who could be part of a brilliant dressing room or part of a toxic dressing room.

[@Dead_Fish0]

I think he said he was taking them to one side and telling them how to deal with it differently so it sounded like he was making changes

[@ronb5714]

​@@Dead_Fish0 "At Manchester United I was fully invested, committed to everything, to win, to be successful - at Manchester United. When you go to somewhere like QPR, and you hear all this negativity flying about, how do you be committed to that? How do you invest in that? It becomes draining, this ain’t going nowhere. So you kind of disengage." That's an *awful* admission. Who cares about him having "the odd conversation on the sly" (also his words), if he openly admits to being disengaged and not committed to the club? Not a leader, just a guy who took his foot off the pedal and collected his big wage while the club spiralled.

[@tonyshortland8812]

Football is the most important thing, amongst the 'not important things'.. Jürgen klop...

[@chinksey-MEDIA]

Jose Bosingwa & Djibril Cisse

[@JohnDBIRL]

100% talking about Taarabt

[@harukrentz435]

I thought he was talking about present man united dressing room 😂

[@MrKevin1144]

😂

[@jamesmckeon9139]

They couldn’t rent a hotel room to do this interview? He’s a hall of fame level player

[@WOOOPdoctorFROGhere]

they probably did book one, but the lighting in hotel rooms can be a nightmare, it takes hours just to set something like a simple podcast up and then the end result is bad that you have to find somewhere else

[@aidygooner]

Just concentrate on the interview instead of worrying about the setting FFS 😂

[@benhallo1553]

Why does it matter lol

[@fourninemarketing]

The bit where he talks about going to the gym at 7am makes me cringe SO HARD. You have a gym in your house Rio, so you’re rolling out of bed and going downstairs at 7am like millions of other people… wow. Congratulations! He and Jake are as bad as each other 😂

[@MrChipz900]

Innit 😂. I’m sure we’d all love to roll out of bed and go gym when we wake up…most of us are concerned about getting through a work day and not fucking up so we can do the same tomorrow.

[@thedishonestjeffsokol2489]

Even he realised he was saying something wrong, lost his train of thought and went quiet. Basically admitted he doesn't know what time his kids go to school and that he isn't involved in that.

[@alexf9381]

​@@thedishonestjeffsokol2489Exactly.

[@mrmango1322]

Easy mate wake up and do push up or pull ups abz Cost nothing

[@HighPerformancePodcast]

Wow, what's your reaction?

[@seemourbutts6679]

My initial reaction was just wow how can Jake Humphrey’s come across as more and more of a class a bell sniff everytime I see and hear from him

[@abhinay4200]

QPR hired over-the-hill marquee players like Ferdinand and Esteban Granero and selfish players like Tarabat. Tony Fernades spends huge sums of money on players who were there only for money

[@HarryMaguiresForehead]

Esteban Granero was not over the hill he was a kid when we signed him you numpty 🤣

[@brotherbuzz1070]

Rio is a class guy. And I'm not a Man U fan.

[@franklingoodwin]

This is all well and good but someone needs to ask him about "Merk'd" 😂

[@sol2701]

Joey Barton made Rio stay with the commentary and punditry- why anyone ever wanted Barton in there team were nuts - I still member wen he said he was better then both lampard and Gerrard 🤷‍♂️🫣🤣🤣🤣

[@bimapriambada1098]

Barton thought he could be Gazza when people let him doing wild shit off the pitch as long as perfom well on the pitch. But, he forgot that the standard for performing well is for Premier League not Chinese Super League

[@gregordrizzlewing7339]

He wasn’t talking to no one waffler 😂😂

[@SonnyK248]

As a 90's football fan I'll never stop saying this but what if Rio, Lampard, Carrick, Johnson, Defoe and.... the real Joe Cole who wasn't ruined by Mourinho (if you were there you know he could have been the best of them all) could have done at West Ham?

[@ciarandavis1651]

I disagree about Cole. Yes he was skilled and in today's game would have had more freedom, but ultimately he sacrificed for the team and won trophies. For me that's what the game is about.

[@SonnyK248]

@@ciarandavis1651 Joe Cole should have been the next Zola or a player like that. He should have reached the level players like Gerrard and Rooney did where they had their own teams built around them where they were the star. He was about 21 when he went to Chelsea and spent a few years in a wing rotation with Duff and Robben. Then they signed Shevchenko and Ballack and kind of abandoned playing with wingers completely and then he had no real role there. It’s a real shame because like I said we had Rooney’s and Owens and Gerrard’s coming through who looked like super prospects at a very young age and seemed to be can’t miss. Cole was one of those and it just never happened for him unfortunately. If he maybe went to a club like Spurs first like Carrick did and then made the big move later then his career could have been very different. Then he could have walked into Spurs as one of the teams best players right off the bat and made the team his own over time. He went to Chelsea right after the Abramovic takeover and was one of about 12 star players who came through the door.

[@DavidLawlor-ci8wz]

How can nobody here mention in 2009 at 27 years of age he blew his acl and was never the same player. Missed his peak years. Can’t understand how fans by-pass this completely. I guess many never played sports at a decent level and just watching TV

[@SonnyK248]

@@DavidLawlor-ci8wz what team did you play for then stud?

[@joeykatsura6020]

​@@SonnyK248Rooney never really had a team built for him. Rooney would often have to do the dirty work and the main source of goals were usually Ruud, CR7 and rvp during his time.

[@ActiveArron]

I just hear excuses instead of ownership for him being awful at QPR

[@MALEXI10]

He wasn't great towards the end of his career. Made a number of mistakes for United, was slow and wasn't as good as JT.

[@marcelinomkenyanmj7305]

well he was an old man who had done it all by the time he joined qpr did you want him to perform like prime maldini?

[@ActiveArron]

@@marcelinomkenyanmj7305 it’s not about his actual performances. It’s about him making excuses and blaming everyone else instead of taking personal responsibility

[@arfenmalik1717]

Is Rio trying to compare ManU to QPR The reason why comunication/systems are running at ManU is bcoz there are people who worked to make the sytems functional. They did not start expecting others to do it. They took it upon themselves to do it That is wat sets ManU apart. Since Sir Alex retired i hope there is someone getting things done or else the club will slowly become like QPR Also wat is with the guilt. Chill dude. Man is Man

[@senydieng732]

Ironically Rio wasnt good enough to get in that QPR team. Richard Dunne outperformed him and they were the same age.

[@marcelinomkenyanmj7305]

well whos dunne again hahahah..rio is a legend of the game I dont think anyone expected much of him at the end of his career

[@solshields]

Rio played loads that season. They were both average to poor. Chris Samba was the shocking one whose level dropped miles

[@senydieng732]

@solshields rio barely played and when he did he wasn't as good as dunne. I remember he cost QPR in the first game of the season against Hull.

[@solshields]

@senydieng732 dunne played 10 more league games. Not some huge difference. They finished bottom and conceded 73 goals so don't see how Dunne could have been that amazing tbh

[@senydieng732]

@solshields 10 games in a 38 game season is quite a bit more and I never said dunne was amazing just better than rio which is the truth. I watched QPR every week that year, you clearly didnt.

[@jacobfield4848]

Rio played for Ferguson, if he had not he would not have won anything. Fergie, apart from Ronaldo, made players winners that were never winners before or after playing for him.

[@MrBobsmith34]

He was 36 with a very dodgy back when he joined QPR. He could had Pep Ancelotti Ferguson as manager and he still would not have pulled up too many trees.

[@mohinuddin8889]

​@@MrBobsmith34loool I was gonna say the same, also yeah English players leaving United at the time wouldn't go abroad that's why they didn't win much after the club but toenaldo and pique won it all lol 😅😅😂 so you can't say players leave United and win nothing.

[@derekjones2835]

100% correct mate. Look at Cristiano. Left United and won nothing at Madrid!

[@jacobfield4848]

Poor example.@@derekjones2835

[@shahzadirani]

Ronaldo never won before Sir Alex either. Sir Alex moulded Ronaldo into a world class player and a player with a winners mentality.

[@jamesl1143]

Rio brushed over it, why then does he jump straight in and bring it up, Rude.

[@jasonrussell5521]

First few minutes, goes on about United running itself and instability Now it’s United with instability.

[@leonleon2276]

You can see big rio is still hurting. He wasn’t convincing when he said he was the happiest he has ever been. At all. More time goes he will get better……but saying that….did he cheat on his wife while she was dying ? Why couldn’t he wait ? So the sorry is guilt. Good job.

[@zoomgallygally]

Why do you think he cheated on his wife?

[@chrisboult6610]

He did cheat on his wife but way before she died. And technically were all dying, just at different rates

[@zoomgallygally]

@@chrisboult6610 ah gee I didn't know that. Never watched that documentary or nothing

[@zoomgallygally]

@@chrisboult6610 just seen the articles on Google now, randy rio is the new giggs is one of the headlines I feel so bad

[@leonleon2276]

@@zoomgallygally I’m not just guessing or making it up am I. Do your research 🧐

[@robertstraw9881]

What does Jake Humphrey know about High Performance?

[@anonymous12344]

What a load of bull. He was getting over 100 grand a week for being absolutely useless. He didnt give a flying f##k about the toxic environment. He was robbing a career at that stage

[@anthonymorris1066]

Hmmm 🤔 talking about? SWP?

[@armyaj]

Sounds like United now

[@tommystewart1392]

Rio slates qpr all the time but misses out how completely awful he was, no different to the other mercenaries

[@mpumelelobeyers957]

This United guys wants everything perfect... Their brothers Anton Ferdinand & Phil Neville did the Best out their club disfunctionality (They where even Captains) ...As a Arsenal fan I wish Anton & Phil was with us(They prob would have been the better brothers). 💯

[@timur_nr1]

Kind of super rude to bring up and make his wives and what happened rather than ask him to bring it up??!

[@rosslogan4154]

How did your managerial career go, Rio?

[@SaudiGod]

Rio getting a woman pregnant and forcing her to have an abortion while married is also toxic

[@MD-it5od]

But he was appalling at QPR

[@thefatfarang9706]

The bloke is a scumbag. If one of my best friends who I have knew for life cheated on his wife when she had cancer he would be abandoned by everyone in our group.

[@CraigWeir-q5v]

Im sorry , WHATTTTTTTT ????????????????? it took for him to got to QPR to realise he wasnt going to walk in and be Man Utd manager straight away ?? Rio is BORING . Same as Owen and Carragher. Gerrard and Lampard are boring but carry a different aura thats why they were managers . Failures , but managers.

[@aurynwestwield1682]

nah Rio, Anderson was one of the worst players to ever put on a United shirt nothing you could av done would of helped that lad out, before the Glazers arrived Fergie would av got rid after 2-3 years

[@JPChesworthDBooth]

Fully committed to Manchester U !?! , such a good player but what a tool, failed or forgotten drugs test , refused to play and train under Moyes , one of the worst pundits on tv . Class player but horrid on the telly short memory .

[@jimtheyid]

Filmed on a Nokia

[@bobstar6837]

Also you were a disaster class at QPR.

[@MohammadKhan-mv2hk]

didn't he....cheat on his first wife with like 11 different women?? Happy to take it all back if I'm wrong but defo read it in the papers back in the day

[@MrChipz900]

Should have asked him about: Cheating on his wife multiple times Missing multiple drugs tests Racially abusing Ashley Cole The guy is a space cadet

[@4gxryhcstjiijv]

You never made any mistakes in your life then nah? Try n be a better person in your life.

[@MrChipz900]

@@4gxryhcstjiijv i don’t go around telling others what they should be doing or how they should be acting unlike this chap.

[@4gxryhcstjiijv]

@@MrChipz900 he’s not telling others what to do, he’s simply sharing what he went through. We all have flaws he’s just being transparent

[@MrChipz900]

@@4gxryhcstjiijv I’m not referring to this particular interview, I’m referring to what he’s done in the past. For example, ridiculing Ashley Cole publicly for saying he didn’t hear John Terry racially abuse Anton…then using a racist trope against Cole. Publicly ridiculing Jones for not being fit or good enough to play and taking a first team place from a younger player…whilst doing the same at QPR Leveraging his wife’s death for a tv show despite cheating on her whilst she was I’ll with cancer. Blaming others and the system for the fact he missed his drugs tests.

[@4gxryhcstjiijv]

@@MrChipz900 I understand your point I’m just saying that why would you click on a video to hear him speak only to list the things your not pleased about. My point is if we took a microscope to your life we’d see that there’s good things you’ve done and also bad. Like all of us. I’m not saying your wrong for feeling how you feel but most of us live in the grey area with a list of good and not so good. Including me and you.

[@originalunoriginal4055]

It's crazy how despite possessing attributes such as being a leader in the dressing room, a "no nonsense" mentality, an articulated and charismatic personality such as Rio Ferdinand, didn't know how to emotionally connect with his own children! 🤔😳😳😬😬

[@MrGoldie1976]

Did you miss any more drug tests ??

[@LUFC123]

🔔 🔚 🐸

[@terrymax2208]

Hes so weird ths prsenter on right ... rio cheated on hes family... will never ne FORGOTTEN

[@vduigdtgfffhhjufd2042]

Huh?

[@TC8787-yq7og]

Imagine channeling this much energy and emotion into someone who doesn’t even know you exist 😂 go outside

[@Anthony-z8c6p]

Most overrated player going Vidic n stam make him look good

[@ScottFree-GB]

Interesting assessment seeing that Stam left before he joined

[@peterabnormal327]

Lmao rio came after stam😂😂😂😂

[@Anthony-z8c6p]

Still go with my opinion make Neville's world class

[@markwilson3414]

Rio is a snake