Ruud van Nistelrooy

[MalibuKen]

I fecking love him.

Legend in my eyes.

post your pics, memories and thoughts of him as a united player.

This will always stand out for me

 

[Twisted_Woody]

Agreed, one of my favorite players to be honest.

 

[prateik]

that pic after he scored the pen against arsenal ???

great player

hah , the look on scholesy

 

[Wittmann45]

His celebration after the Arse penalty...

I think that may be the thing the person above is talking about to, the camera angle was great

 

[KOV]

I fecking love him.

Legend in my eyes.

post your pics, memories and thoughts of him as a united player.

This will always stand out for me

sweet revenge for rudd against arsenal and we beat their 49 unbeaten record!

 

[Donegan]

sweet revenge for rudd against arsenal and we beat their 49 unbeaten record!

When he first joined, went to one of them training sessions they have before the charity shield. Only him and beckham were the ones to jum over and sign anything

 

[Alex]

I love how he just yells right at end, talk about redeeming yourself, he was a class player, and still is

 

[Donegan]

Will never forget that dirty ugly cockney twat keown after Nistelrooy missed that penaltie. Dirty fecking twats.

 

[Pat_Mustard]

One of favourite ever players. Seemed at certain times like he was on a one man mission to stop us slipping into mediocrity.

 

[neno]

I wish Ruud would have been part of our european glory this season. He has been our most effective striker in the european stage and of the top 5 strikers in cl history he has the best goal per game played ratio! He is a United Legend in my opinion. Everywhere he goes he score buckloads of goals.

 

[Domino]

I wish Ruud would have been part of our european glory this season. He has been our most effective striker in the european stage and of the top 5 strikers in cl history he has the best goal per game played ratio! He is a United Legend in my opinion. Everywhere he goes he score buckloads of goals.

We would have not been in the final or anywere near it with Ruud in our side.

Class player and was immense for us, but when he left we went back to our old style of football, fast interchanging. With Ruud we were restricted.

This is not a dig at Ruud, but him moving was for the best IMO.

 

[Forever Red]

We would have not been in the final or anywere near it with Ruud in our side.

Class player and was immense for us, but when he left we went back to our old style of football, fast interchanging. With Ruud we were restricted.This is not a dig at Ruud, but him moving was for the best IMO.

Agreed

 

[Garethw]

I was absolutely gutted when we sold him.

Any person that says that Saha is/was a better player than Ruud is demented.

Ruud is a legend in my eyes. He single handedly kept us afloat during our dodgy transitional stage back in 2003-04.

A 26 year old Ruud in our current team would be a 40-50 goal a season player.

Truly world class and i miss him.

 

[Garethw]

We would have not been in the final or anywere near it with Ruud in our side.

Class player and was immense for us, but when he left we went back to our old style of football, fast interchanging. With Ruud we were restricted.

This is not a dig at Ruud, but him moving was for the best IMO.

I only agree if you are talking about the Ruud that left in '06.

The Ruud we signed before injuries ravaged him was an extremely mobile striker that would have aided us and not restricted us.

 

[Domino]

If only we could say that about all our players, if georgie best never turned to drink..etc

but he did, he got injured and he lost his pace and movement.

Best thing we ever did was getting rid of Ruud, and he's attitude stunk.

Sorry to say it

 

[Instant Karma]

biggest big game bottler if ever there was one. 2 goals in open play from 5 seasons against Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal.

 

[KeyserSoze]

biggest big game bottler if ever there was one. 2 goals in open play from 5 seasons against Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal.

In a galaxy far far away indeed.

 

[Striker10]

I only agree if you are talking about the Ruud that left in '06.

The Ruud we signed before injuries ravaged him was an extremely mobile striker that would have aided us and not restricted us.

Agree. Ruud in his pomp was awesome. Put Ruud when he was 25/26, in this United set up and it'd be magic. It just wasn't to be sadly.

 

[Nistelrooy10]

biggest big game bottler if ever there was one. 2 goals in open play from 5 seasons against Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal.

How many does Ronaldo have?

He was the best striker I've ever seen. You knew he would almost certainly score when he was on.

 

[Brwned]

biggest big game bottler if ever there was one. 2 goals in open play from 5 seasons against Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal.

Don't you think that was because they marked him much more tightly/better?

 

[noodlehair]

If only we could say that about all our players, if georgie best never turned to drink..etc

but he did, he got injured and he lost his pace and movement.

Best thing we ever did was getting rid of Ruud, and he's attitude stunk.

Sorry to say it

Load of bollocks.

If you look at the one thing our squad is missing, it's a player like Ruud.

The problem was that he's too big a name, and too big of an ego to accept sitting on the bench half the time. That's not down to crap attitude. It's about him wanting to get the best out of himself.

SAF probably had no choice other than to let him go, as it was in both parties best interests, but the crap that gets spouted about him since is just silly.

Same thing happened with Beckham. In fact it still does

 

[Spoony]

biggest big game bottler if ever there was one. 2 goals in open play from 5 seasons against Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal.

But his goals against Bayern, Depor, Juve, Valencia, Real et al. were clearly against lesser clubs.

 

[Sultan]

Any person that says that Saha is/was a better player than Ruud is demented.

Both different players.

Ruud is a way better finisher, a class act in the penalty area.

We were getting very one dimentional in the last few years of Ruud's stay.

Saha gives more movement, pace, and power to the team. He compliments our present playing style better than Ruud.

 

[Spoony]

Load of bollocks.

If you look at the one thing our squad is missing, it's a player like Ruud.

The problem was that he's too big a name, and too big of an ego to accept sitting on the bench half the time. That's not down to crap attitude. It's about him wanting to get the best out of himself.

SAF probably had no choice other than to let him go, as it was in both parties best interests, but the crap that gets spouted about him since is just silly.

Same thing happened with Beckham. In fact it still does

Ruud at his peak, in his first three season, yes. People have to accept he's not the player he once was. . .and the fact that we've actually improved since he left(in fact as soon as he was replaced by Saha).

 

[Brwned]

Load of bollocks.

If you look at the one thing our squad is missing, it's a player like Ruud.

The problem was that he's too big a name, and too big of an ego to accept sitting on the bench half the time. That's not down to crap attitude. It's about him wanting to get the best out of himself.

SAF probably had no choice other than to let him go, as it was in both parties best interests, but the crap that gets spouted about him since is just silly.

Same thing happened with Beckham. In fact it still does

Well to be fair, I can understand why Ruud would want to still play consistently at the top level with his ability but SAF said his attitude was awful, and he expected him to be more professional about it.

 

[Forever Red]

Both different players.

Ruud is a way better finisher, a class act in the penalty area. We were getting very one dimentional in the last few years of Ruud's stay.

Saha gives more movement, pace, and power to the team. He compliments our present playing style better than Ruud.

He gives us feck all movement while he's out injured which plastic man always is. He's not a patch on Ruud

 

[noodlehair]

He was amazing in the CL.

There was that one season where he scored in every CL game he played, which I think was about 15 games on the spin. Then that other one where he was the competition's top scorer despite only being fit for about three games.

I think his goals to games ratio was something like 91%

 

[Kelvin]

I still feel sad when we sell him, a prolific striker at any club he play for.

 

[noodlehair]

Well to be fair, I can understand why Ruud would want to still play consistently at the top level with his ability but SAF said his attitude was awful, and he expected him to be more professional about it.

His attitude became awful after SAF started leaving him out. SAF may have a point, and probably did the right thing, but you have to understand that a player with Ruud's ability and ego, just isn't going to accept the idea of suddenly going from being the main man, to being a bit part player.

Much in the same way Ronaldo, Rio, Rooney etc. probably wouldn't.

 

[101]

One of the reasons why I support Holland. Always loved him:

 

[Spoony]

His attitude became awful after SAF started leaving him out. SAF may have a point, and probably did the right thing, but you have to understand that a player with Ruud's ability and ego, just isn't going to accept the idea of suddenly going from being the main man to a bit part player.

Much in the same way Ronaldo, Rio, Rooney etc. probably wouldn't.

When did Fergie drop him? after he wanted to leave or before?

 

[wancolos]

I fecking love him.

Legend in my eyes.

Spot on.

 

[Sultan]

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He gives us feck all movement while he's out injured which plastic man always is. He's not a patch on Ruud

The injuries are unfortunate.

The fact that United's coaching staff began to change the playing system to suit Saha/Rooney was the start of Ruud's tantrums.

I never said Saha is a patch on Ruud, they are different and Saha suited the new system more than Ruud.

Not very difficult to understand.

 

[Brwned]

When did Fergie drop him? after he wanted to leave or before?

Well SAF said that Van Nistelrooy wanted to leave for three summers in a row, so I'd say after.

 

[noodlehair]

When did Fergie drop him? after he wanted to leave or before?

Before I'd guess.

Ruud quite clearly loved it here

 

[sonymobby]

Both different players.

Ruud is a way better finisher, a class act in the penalty area.

We were getting very one dimentional in the last few years of Ruud's stay.

Saha gives more movement, pace, and power to the team. He compliments our present playing style better than Ruud.

But was that Ruud's fault or was it United's fault for not having a plan B? Then again, when we decided to make Ruud plan B, he didn't like it...

 

[Tibs]

Loved him.

The goal where Rooney ran the ball down the pitch, and Ruud almost broke the net was beautiful

 

[Spoony]

Before I'd guess.

Ruud quite clearly loved it here

Why would he drop him? I think there was that Ronaldo incident. . .but I'm sure he was dropped a season before that.

Well SAF said that Van Nistelrooy wanted to leave for three summers in a row, so I'd say after.

If that's the case then good riddance.

 

[Ixion]

I never took to Ruud to be honest, his record was amazing but I wasn't sad to see him leave, Saha did a great job of replacing him till his injuries struck again and Tevez has been fantastic. Coincidence or not our performances drastically improved when was started leaving him out and after we sold him, so I wouldn't want him back regardless of the goals. (And some of the things he said when he first went to Madrid pissed me off.)

 

[Escobar]

No Legend imvho, but a player I always liked