Rio announces retirement

[Stanley]

Rio Ferdinand has retired from the game after being released by QPR.

Read more: http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2...eased-by-qpr/?

[Artful]

Fair play for what he's achieved in the game, but a year to late

[qprted]

yes

yes two years too, late

[3London]

Knowing what we know now . we can't pass judgement on his time at QPR. how he even came to work is beyond me...absolute tragedy.

Wish him all the Best ..in what will be a Painful few years.

[Kevin Mcleod]

Brilliant player and could never judge him on his time with us, just after he joined us he found out he was about to lose his wife and had to break that news to his little babies. How can anyone work properly knowing that.

[MYU]

Knowing what we know now . we can't pass judgement on his time at QPR. how he even came to work is beyond me...absolute tragedy.

Wish him all the Best ..in what will be a Painful few years.

Have to agree with you, all the best to Rio for the future.

[Robsondinho]

Good luck to him. Finest British defender I have seen in my life time.

[Kirill]

I hope we never sign another expensive and useless had-been like him.

[Hitman34]

I hope we never sign another expensive and useless had-been like him.

spot on.

another 160k per month saved. happy days.

[KuPR]

Brilliant player and could never judge him on his time with us, just after he joined us he found out he was about to lose his wife and had to break that news to his little babies. How can anyone work properly knowing that.

This.

[Kirill]

Brilliant player and could never judge him on his time with us, just after he joined us he found out he was about to lose his wife and had to break that news to his little babies. How can anyone work properly knowing that.

So he couldn't work properly from the start but he had no problem getting paid by us nonetheless over the whole season? Cute.

[Kevin Mcleod]

So he couldn't work properly from the start but he had no problem getting paid by us nonetheless over the whole season? Cute.

Pay as you play wasnt he. You really aint a very nice person are you.

[3London]

So he couldn't work properly from the start but he had no problem getting paid by us nonetheless over the whole season? Cute.

are you that self obsessed! show some humanity..no one should go through what he has just been through..its irrelevant how much he got paid!

sorry your wife is dying of cancer so you are not playing so we won't pay you...is that what you are saying?

[Hertford Hoop]

Top top defender just a shame we never saw it at W12
Good luck to him and his kids

[Kirill]

are you that self obsessed! show some humanity..no one should go through what he has just been through..its irrelevant how much he got paid!

sorry your wife is dying of cancer so you are not playing so we won't pay you...is that what you are saying?

He should have retired and spent more time with her instead of wasting everybody's time at QPR.