David O'Leary
speaker
967 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 14 May
David O'Leary’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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spare one in the three as kind of a sweeper in that way.
But I think putting him in the back four, the size of him, the build, the quickness of him, the whole lot about him in that way.
And how much did it cost?
I said, I think it cost about 10 million.
And I must give credit to Peter Ridgedale that developed the story and developed.
And my dad was having a big operation in Dublin and my phone was off on the Friday.
And I picked Tommy, I had to sit with my mum, can't have your phone on.
Got out Gary at the hospital, ring Peter at the Ridgedale straight away.
David, we've completed for Rio Ferdinand.
I went, brilliant.
How much?
18 million.
If he did come back to me earlier that day and said, David, 18 million, I wouldn't have done it.
And Man United, because I was thinking 18 million then,
It was a big fee.
Peter deserved it.
I always thought at the end, I always thought as we were going along on that, that...
The agent was Pini Zahavi, I saw a good friend of Alex and I thought we'll be stewards of, get a price and they'll come in at the end of it.
They didn't.
Rio was a refreshing lad to deal with, he wanted to learn football.
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