Is he? I didn't know that. I always thought that Fergie and CQ had a stronger relationship with ronaldo than Scolari. As for the media mentioning it to mean real madrid, I think they do so that they can sell more papers. But then again I could be wrong.
From the Independent
The Portugal coach, Luiz Felipe Scolari, hardly helped matters from a United point of view when he said he had advised Ronaldo to move to Real Madrid.
"I have told him that in football you cannot live on memories," he said. "You have to take the opportunities when they come along because perhaps they will not come again in your lifetime." Scolari also said the speculation about his future had not affected Ronaldo's preparations for Euro 2008. He added: "He is quite calm about his future. He is working very hard like just another member of the squad."
His godfather Fernando Sousa, too, has contributed to the ongoing debate, claiming that Ronaldo is on the verge of moving.
He said: "Cristiano must seize this opportunity to go to Real Madrid. I think that he's already decided to do so, but he'll wait until after the Euros before saying anything."
From the Telegraph
Since leaving Sporting Lisbon when he was 18, Ronaldo has known only two managers; short-tempered quick-thinking men who physically and mentally dominate their dressing-room - the shipbuilder's son from Govan and the man from the high plains of Brazil. He has achieved everything with one and now he may be on the point of achieving everything with the other. At 23, he has played in one European Championship final and a World Cup semi-final, and travelled further and faster than any member of Fabio Capello's England squad.
His relationship with Luiz Felipe Scolari, his national manager, is perhaps closer than that with Sir Alex Ferguson and was forged in even darker heat than in the aftermath of Wayne Rooney's dismissal in Gelsenkirchen. Portugal were in Moscow for a World Cup qualifier against Russia in 2005, when news came through that Ronaldo's father, Dinis, had died.
In Moments, a well-written account of his early life, Ronaldo described his meeting with Scolari. "He told me to go home. 'Never forget that family comes first, and only then comes football,' he said. I refused. At that point my relationship with Scolari began to strengthen; we both cried when he told me the story of how his own father died."
That book was filled with colour photographs of Ronaldo in various states of undress, marketing him as a symbol for both sexes, just as Beckham targeted the gay market. One of his first ads was for Pepe jeans that showed him on Barreiro beach in Portugal, wearing nothing but the product, sitting on an inflatable armchair with a bikini-clad model lying next to him on some straw. Beside them was an everyday beach accessory - a pack of wolves.
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I like option 6 Wibble.