10 Greatest Manchester United players of All Time

6. Ryan Giggs

At the club: 1990 - 2004

Appearances: 963

Goals: 168

Honours: 13 x Premier League; 4 x FA Cup; 2 x UEFA Champions League; 1 x FIFA Club World Cup; 1 x Intercontinental Cup

Just look at those numbers up there. 24 years as a midfielder at one of the biggest clubs in the world. 963 appearances - the most of any Manchester United footballer, ever. 13, THIRTEEN, league titles.

Trust Sir Alex Ferguson to describe him best - "I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cocker spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind."

Eric Harrison, the youth team coach that ushered in the Class of '92 said of him - "A young Giggsy was like a Ballet dancer I had never seen a young player like that... and I had seen the Busby Babes"

At his flowing best, Giggs was unstoppable, a poetic whir of motion and energy that left defenders with "twisted blood" (another Fergie classic) and showed just how true that famous Old Trafford chant of him "tearing you up" really was.

Able to dribble with the ball as if it was tied to his laces, immensely intelligent on the pitch, and able to see patterns where most people only see green grass and random human beings standing on it - his transformation from flying winger to deep-lying central midfield playmaker spoke volumes of the man's quality as a top-level footballer.