Rio Ferdinand reveals the only two Manchester United players who completed the bleep test in his first summer

Rio Ferdinand claims David Beckham and Dwight Yorke were the lone 2 players who completed the dreaded bleep trial during his archetypal pre-season astatine Manchester United.

Ferdinand joined United successful a £33.3 cardinal woody from Leeds successful July 2002 and spent conscionable 1 play with Beckham astatine Old Trafford, portion Yorke near for Blackburn Rovers conscionable days aft his arrival.

However, Ferdinand has revealed that helium was near stunned during 1 of his archetypal grooming sessions astatine United erstwhile helium saw some Beckham and York decorativeness the bleep trial – a continuous moving workout backmost and distant implicit 20 metres which pushes a player’s stamina to the limit.

Speaking to Beckham during an interrogation connected his YouTube transmission this week, Ferdinand said: ‘Something again, and a batch of people, astir people, won’t cognize astir you, and you’re talking astir enactment rate, I retrieve that was the lasting large memories I person of you extracurricular of the pitch… my archetypal ever pre-season we done the bleep test.’

Beckham laughed and interjected: ‘You weren’t large astatine it.’

Ferdinand replied: ‘I was mediocre – I’d conscionable flew successful from Ayia Napa! So I weren’t going to beryllium acceptable for that.

‘But it looked similar you had trained each summer, you finished, you and Yorkie completed the bleep test.

‘I was lasting there, I rang my mates aft and said, ‘you wouldn’t judge this, these 2 guys, I don’t cognize what they’ve done each summertime but they ain’t done what I’ve done and they’ve completed the bleep test’.’

Beckham past said: ‘Do you cognize what? It’s stubbornness successful that bleep test.

‘It’s each about, well, you person to person a small spot of stamina, obviously, but much importantly for me, it was stubbornness, I wanted to beryllium the past 1 to finish.

I was watching players driblet out, I was watching players travel successful twelvemonth aft twelvemonth and they’d beryllium much athletes and I’d beryllium thinking, ‘okay, I’m going to person to measurement it up again’.’

Asked if helium was grooming earlier pre-season began, Beckham replied: ‘No. I conscionable weren’t doing what you were doing.’

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