Rio Ferdinand believes only a lack of consistency stopped Nani becoming one of the best players in the world.
The 28-year-old winger left Manchester United for Fenerbahçe this week after eight years at Old Trafford. thinks only a lack of consistency has prevented him from being talked about in the same bracket as Neymar, Luis Suárez and Zlatan Ibrahimović. He said: “It’s one thing having all that it’s another putting it all together, week in week out. There aren’t many that do and there is the thing that separates Messi and Ronaldo from the next tier of Suárez, Neymar and Zlatan. Don’t get me wrong those are world class players as well but there is tiers with how consistently they produce moments of defining brilliance and it goes on and on through the tiers of players.”
He continued: “What category Nani sits in now is hard to judge as he hasn’t played for Man Utd for a long time. He produced wonder moments back in Portugal but I have not seen much of him consistently at sporting. For me he had all the attributes to have been in the second and third tiers easily.”
Rio Ferdinand believes only a lack of consistency stopped Nani becoming one of the best players in the world.
The 28-year-old winger left Manchester United for Fenerbahçe this week after eight years at Old Trafford. thinks only a lack of consistency has prevented him from being talked about in the same bracket as Neymar, Luis Suárez and Zlatan Ibrahimović. He said: “It’s one thing having all that it’s another putting it all together, week in week out. There aren’t many that do and there is the thing that separates Messi and Ronaldo from the next tier of Suárez, Neymar and Zlatan. Don’t get me wrong those are world class players as well but there is tiers with how consistently they produce moments of defining brilliance and it goes on and on through the tiers of players.”
He continued: “What category Nani sits in now is hard to judge as he hasn’t played for Man Utd for a long time. He produced wonder moments back in Portugal but I have not seen much of him consistently at sporting. For me he had all the attributes to have been in the second and third tiers easily.”
