Rio Ferdinand reveals Patrice Evra regularly leaves Manchester United legends’ group chat

Rio Ferdinand has alleged that Patrice Evra regularly leaves a WhatsApp group chat for Manchester United’s 2008 Champions League winners.

The former United centre-back revealed that Sir Alex Ferguson’s famous Premier League and Champions League winning side share a group chat to keep in touch.

Players in the chat include Wayne Rooney, Darren Fletcher and Nani. However, there is one guy who finds himself at the end of the regular group chats.

“Evra just comes in and out because he gets bullied out there,” Ferdinand told Mo Gilligan’s The Lateish Show.

“It gets ripped and all you see is, ‘Patrice left the group’.”

Manchester United’s 2008 Champions League winners share a group chat to keep in touch

Evr regularly receives jokes and therefore leaves the chat

However, Ferdinand revealed that Evra’s absence never lasts particularly long, with the former France international soon begging to return just a few hours later.

“And then a few hours later you get a text, ‘Can you please let me back in, add me, add me,'” Ferdinand claimed.

Examples of the banter Evra receives in chat were shown by Ferdinand when he discussed his now infamous white suit he wore when he was revealed as a United player in 2002.

Asked by Gilligan if he would return the suit, Ferdinand sent a voice message to chat asking his teammates for advice.

“Bro, this is fire, you have to carry it!” Ev, though tellingly, did not respond to the chat itself.

“So he got out of the group because he knows if he says that inside the group, they’ll kill him,” Ferdinand said.

“He will be told to leave the group.”

The exact participants in the group chat were not revealed by Ferdinand, although it’s fair to assume that a large portion of the squad is involved.

Ferguson’s team established themselves as one of Britain’s truly great sides between 2007 and 2013, reaching three Champions League finals and winning five Premier League crowns in that time.

Ferdinand used his own outfit from 2002 as proof that Evra was terrified of the reaction in the chat

Much of the squad that won the Champions League in 2008 continued to be an important part of the squad in the 2012-13 season, including Ferdinand, Evra, Nemanja Vidic and Wayne Rooney.

Regarded as Ferguson’s second truly great United side, following his Treble winners in 1999, Ferdinand claimed last year that his 2008 side would win a game between the two.

When asked if the 2008 team was the best team in United’s history, Ferdinand replied on the Filthy Fellas Youtube show: ‘Yes.’

“I think if we played them [the 1999 team] it was going to be a tight game, but… I think our team would beat them,” said Ferdinand.

‘I do. It’s all hypothetical, but I really think we would.’