Vidic: Man Utd, Playing with Ronaldo & Nearly Joining Liverpool | The Overlap Exclusive
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🗓️ 10 July 2025
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Exclusive Interviews are back! In this episode, brought to you by Sky Bet, Gary Neville sits down with Manchester United legend Nemanja Vidić to reflect on the highs, lows, and turning points of his incredible career.
Vidić opens up about the early stages of his journey, including near-moves to Liverpool and Aston Villa, before a call from Sir Alex Ferguson changed everything. He shares how he overcame a tough start at Old Trafford to become one of the club’s greatest ever defenders.
The chat also covers playing alongside some of the greats, lifting the Champions League in 2008, and where David Moyes went wrong during his time in Manchester.
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00:00 Introduction and Soccer Aid
03:41 Vidic life after football
15:01 Joining Manchester United
21:54 Struggles and Self-Doubt
23:14 Settling into the Team
23:26 Premier League Challenges
23:48 Early Impressions of United
24:59 Reflecting on the 2006-07 Season
25:41 Building a Partnership with Rio
30:46 Champions League Finals
36:45 Transition to David Moyes
40:51 Post-Ferguson Era
43:56 Vidic’s PFA awards
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| 0:00.0 | What are you wearing? What are you wearing? |
| 0:01.0 | So I joined up with Soccerade last night, and Nomania is the enemy tonight at Old Trafford, because he plays for the rest of the world, and I play for England. And I've not prepared best, shall we say, for this game. I had a few drinks last night with my colleagues. Can I tell you this, you're not going to be easy at this. Are these Serbian delights? So there's some Serbian sweets? Which are Serbian sweets? You tell me, Gary, what do they look like? Well, I mean, these Percy pigs aren't, obviously, are they, unless Percy Pig was born in Serbia. I just thought them if you like them. Yeah, I get that, Kieran. But which are the Serbian sweets? These aren't sweets, are they? I mean, these sweets? Serbian sweets Is the Serbian sweets these aren't sweets are they I mean these |
| 0:37.5 | sweets |
| 0:38.0 | Serbian sweets |
| 0:40.0 | Is that Serbian |
| 0:41.3 | That's a knickles cake mate |
| 0:42.7 | I'm |
| 0:44.6 | I've got to 730 tonight |
| 0:51.3 | I'm to get right for this game |
| 0:52.9 | That's the key. |
| 0:54.7 | Replace your salts. |
| 0:56.0 | On your hearts, guys. |
| 0:57.5 | Sleep about half one until three. |
| 1:00.3 | Before you know it, I'll be beating Vida in the air on corners. |
| 1:05.8 | I hope this is Ellen and not Nomania. |
| 1:08.6 | The last thing I wanted was Nemania to walk through before Ellen. |
| 1:11.6 | And I bought you three drinks. |
| 1:12.6 | Oh wow. |
| 1:13.6 | Look at this. |
| 1:14.6 | Look at this. |
| 1:16.6 | Is this a Serbian bacon butty? |
| 1:18.6 | He's gonna walk in and go, what the hell is this, isn't it? |
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