Anton Ferdinand has revealed he turned down a lucrative move to Dnipro in favour of a switch to Queens Park Rangers. The 26-year-old joined ambitious QPR on transfer deadline after Sunderland decided to offload the defender. Ferdinand admits the offer from Ukraine was more lucrative than QPR's, but he insists the move to Dnipro did not excite him. "The offer from Ukraine came in first and it didn't excite me - I'm not someone who goes somewhere because the money was right," Ferdinand told The Times. "I'm all about my football and if you do well in football, the money comes to you." Not often you get a footballer with the right priorities, well done Anton.
As I've been saying since the latter half of last season; Ferdinand was showing the best form of his life and had probably been our best defender since then...I honestly feel that QPR have bagged themselves a real bargain there..
Anton could drive you mad but I loved the guy. Mentioned a few times how I stand and watch the players come in, most sign a few autographs and some dont. Anton was always last in, rushed up the steps late, would hear the kids shout Anton, ask the security chap on the door the time then go and sign every single autograph, never let the fans down in that way.
Anton could be so good, then so frustrating at times. If he could have consistently performed, he would have been as good as his older brother imo.
Another Bruce error. Anton and Brown were far better than any other pairing we will have this season. I feel Turner will won't recover from his injury and Bramble is Bramble....
no idea why I am bothering to reply to this... Bramble was a great defender for us last season. Have you forgotten the run of 11 clean sheets? that was Bramble and Turner.
I'm not forgetting that, but I have never ever been a fan of Bramble.... and by Bramble is Bramble he can be awesome all game but will easily mess something up. He was woeful last game. Also my comment about Turner is justified.. I really think he might be effected by the injury, hence not playing since pre-season.
Queens Park Rangers' summer signing Anton Ferdinand is glad to have returned to London and also thanks Sunderland manager Steve Bruce for turning him "from a boy into a man". http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,11095_7178996,00.html Seems Anton had nothing against Bruce.
Not sure about Turner, that is a wait and see Bramble is bound to be rusty and needs a couple of games... imo anyway, lets not get into another Bruce debate - getting bored of those now and i generally like a good debate.
I thought the whole point of selling Anton was so we could raise the cash to get in a striker, but it dragged on so long (not sure whos fault that was) that by the time he did go, a couple of minutes before deadline, it was too late to use the cash we got for him to fund the striker, so not only did we loose him, we also failed to get the striker we were after, or thats what i read at the time.
Interesting the NEWCASTLE Journal's take on the same comments http://www.journallive.co.uk/safc/safc-news/2011/09/16/steve-bruce-blasted-by-anton-ferdinand-in-parting-shot-61634-29432362/ If ever we needed proof of bias in the local media! I was quite sorry to see Ferdinand go and will welcome him warmly on his return to the SoL. As a player he made errors but never hid and always gave 100% effort to the team and the fans. I liked him.
yep, the same story, but the Journal headlines it "Anton takes a swipe at Bruce", should have guessed they'd try to stir the ****...headlines sell papers i guess, bo matter how bad they are.
