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Published 11:41 18 Feb 2021 GMT
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In response to Lineker asking Ferdinand why he was strangling Ronaldo in the image above, Ferdinand admitted: "Because I wanted him to stay."
"I was begging him, like all the other players at the time, 'please stay'. This was the third league title on the bounce, we wanted to break the records and stuff.
"And I'm saying, 'that's why you're the best, that's why you've got to stay here.'"
Ronaldo didn't stay after that season, but the six years he did spend with Manchester United were when United played some of the best football the Premier League has ever seen.
This was something of a coming of age moment for Ronaldo, Rio explains, having "tried to play the occasion" away at Benfica a couple of years before.
"The manager caned him at half-time," he said. "Almost crying he was."
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