Former Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster has declared that Anderson could have been "the best player in the world" - if only he had applied himself.
The retired midfielder is viewed as one of the Red Devils' biggest let-downs of the Premier League era even though he won six major honours with the club. He arrived at Old Trafford in a £26million transfer from Porto in 2007 and would go on to make 181 appearances for United, scoring nine times.
The presiding sense among fans is that Anderson never lived up to his price tag or the potential he showed in Portugal. His role gradually diminished until he returned to his native Brazil to join Internacional in early 2015 having fallen out of favour under David Moyes and his managerial replacement, Louis van Gaal.
