Former Manchester United defender Wes Brown believes that club legends Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes could one day be honoured with their own statues at Old Trafford.
“I think that will happen some day, especially with players like Scholesy, Ryan Giggs,”
said the pair’s former team-mate Brown.
“They’re probably the next two that you’ve got to look at – if anyone was looking at it. But they definitely deserve something.
“But you know, Sir Bobby and Denis Law and George Best, it took a while for them to get a statue. I think that’s what’s nice about it.”
“Scholesy, for me, has been the best player in the Premier League, and obviously we’ve all at some stage of our careers have played with him, so we all know what he’s like,”
eulogised the Academy graduate.
“I think if I had to choose one, though, it’d probably be choose Giggsy. Purely and simply because he stayed at the club all his career, he’s made a record number of appearances, he’s the one person that has won more than anybody else. He’s had a glittering career, and for that reason alone I don’t think it’ll ever be surpassed. So if I had to choose one person, and one person only, it would probably be Ryan.”
“It tells a tale of both clubs though,”
said Webber of City’s planned Silva tribute.
“The likes of Liverpool would have [Bill] Shankly and so on, and United has that era [of Best, Law and Charlton].
“It takes a while, and those names travel through decades, and I just think City’s new era has been obviously David Silva, [Vincent] Kompany and [Sergio] Aguero, and I think they’re paying tribute to this era rather than past eras, where we’ve definitely got more legends and more history at this football club.”
“I think the fact that you can name all these names shows how successful we’ve been,”
he explained.
“Every one of them, you go: ‘well, yeah, you could stake a claim as to why there would be a statue for them, 100 per cent’.”
“We’re talking about special players,”
agreed Brown.
“It’s a tough one. You can’t be throwing statues about all the time can you, though?”