Switch Tales characteristic with former Man Utd striker Ruud van Nistelrooy

The striker didn’t lose religion, nevertheless, and continued working in the direction of his eventual transfer to M16 a yr later.

“From the very begin of all of it, I used to be working in the direction of one factor: being a United participant,” he stated in his UTD Unscripted characteristic in 2021.

“It was a continuing drive. Each single day that I obtained up, it was my motivation. If I used to be going to return, then I wanted a superb knee for that. I didn’t go away something to probability.

“I used on a regular basis that I needed to work on my knee and my physique on the identical time. I needed to have a look at it as nearly a yr out to organize, the place I might spend money on myself, in my physique and to make use of it to return again stronger.”