Jimmy Hill helped to abolished the minimum wage, thus ending football slavery between clubs and players, sadly that's where his contributions to football ended.
ALL Ronaldo's future/comments/speculation
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Champions of England, Champions of Europe. We really should not allow ourselves to feel this way.
see when that pic of Jimmy was taken... where was Sepp Blatter playing?
2 years is plenty of time
Are you saying we are going to keep him for 2 more years? If true than there is plenty time to line up replacements.
But are you saying that we should have been lining up these replacements over the last two years, because it was obvious that one day he would leave for Real? If so I hope we have been lining up replacements.
We should do our business first, otherwise we will pay through the nose for players.
Ive started a whip round in my office for the poor lad Ronaldo. You lot should follow my lead.......
True, and you can be sure United know that. So if we start buying big then we will know his time is up.
Dont think there was promotion system back in 2006.
Never Knew
Well said.
Did anyone post this yet? 
Carlos Queiroz has gone back to become manager of Portugal. This weakens our position for convincing him to stay with us.
"It's Ok, we still have Wes Brown"
not again.
Was that a new interview from Quieroz, on SSN , he goes " Ronaldo is definately staying " ?
Free Chris Ronaldo
Free free
Free free free Chris Ronaldo
Free Chris Ronaldo
5 years in captivity
Boots to big to fit his feet
His body abused, but he wants to go free
He's so scared he's avoiding Fergie
Free Chris Ronaldo
Won it all for M.U.F.C.
He was adored by the Red Army
All he earned was 150...
Thousand pounds every week
Free Chris Ronaldo
Blatter says "It's slavery"
Ronaldo replied "Yes I agree"
You're so deaf that you cannot hear him
He won't back to O.T.
Free Chris Ronaldo
Free free
Free free free Chris Ronaldo
Free Chris Ronaldo
5 years in captivity
Boots to big to fit his feet
His body abused, but he wants to go free
He's so scared he's avoiding Fergie
Free Chris Ronaldo
Won it all for M.U.F.C.
He was adored by the Red Army
All he earned was 150...
Thousand pounds every week
Free Chris Ronaldo
Blatter says "It's slavery"
Ronaldo replied "Yes I agree"
You're so deaf that you cannot hear him
He won't back to O.T.
Free Chris Ronaldo
well i hope fergie will keep him as long as is required for the benefit of the club, 2 more seasons should sufice
we hold ALL THE CARDS
i mustv'e not been the only person that saw it !
to all the ronaldo haters..
Ronaldo = Kunta Kinte
(Only the older farts would know that name from "Roots". Yes, that is the original spelling.)
(Only the older farts would know that name from "Roots". Yes, that is the original spelling.)
Blatter won't apologise for 'slavery' comment
Bruce and Redknapp hit out at Fifa president
"Not at the moment," said a Fifa spokesperson when asked whether Blatter planned to clarify his comments or issue an apology. "For the moment we are not commenting on what he said. We never comment on interviews that have been done. What he has said is obviously on the record. He has no plans to follow up on that. For the time being, we have not heard or seen that he is planning to make additional comments."
Premier League managers were not slow to add their own thoughts today. Steve Bruce and Harry Redknapp both condemned Blatter for his remarks, insisting he had overstepped the mark and demonstrated a complete lack of understanding over the transfer system. "I don't agree with Sepp Blatter's comments on them being slaves because I believe they have the best job in the world," said Bruce, Wigan's manager. "If they are slaves, what the hell are the rest of us? They have got a good job."
"It's rubbish, isn't it," added Redknapp in response to Blatter's comments. "You can sign somebody at a football club who turns out to be a disaster. He might not be playing, might be no good, but you have to pay him for four years. So when somebody does fantastically, you're supposed to just let them go? It doesn't work like that. You sign a contract and it has to be mutual agreement, if the club receives a good offer, that's how it works. It's not slavery, is it? That's absolute nonsense."
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Bruce and Redknapp hit out at Fifa president
- <LI class=byline>Stuart James <LI class=publication>guardian.co.uk,
- Friday July 11, 2008
"Not at the moment," said a Fifa spokesperson when asked whether Blatter planned to clarify his comments or issue an apology. "For the moment we are not commenting on what he said. We never comment on interviews that have been done. What he has said is obviously on the record. He has no plans to follow up on that. For the time being, we have not heard or seen that he is planning to make additional comments."
Premier League managers were not slow to add their own thoughts today. Steve Bruce and Harry Redknapp both condemned Blatter for his remarks, insisting he had overstepped the mark and demonstrated a complete lack of understanding over the transfer system. "I don't agree with Sepp Blatter's comments on them being slaves because I believe they have the best job in the world," said Bruce, Wigan's manager. "If they are slaves, what the hell are the rest of us? They have got a good job."
"It's rubbish, isn't it," added Redknapp in response to Blatter's comments. "You can sign somebody at a football club who turns out to be a disaster. He might not be playing, might be no good, but you have to pay him for four years. So when somebody does fantastically, you're supposed to just let them go? It doesn't work like that. You sign a contract and it has to be mutual agreement, if the club receives a good offer, that's how it works. It's not slavery, is it? That's absolute nonsense."
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Harry said it best...
@ Fifa, theyr'e too embarressed to admit he's wrong. Nail on the head from redknapp.
FIFA never comment on interviews that have been done?
What precisely do FIFA comment on then?
What precisely do FIFA comment on then?
I dont want an appology from him, just for him to resign.of course wont happen.
I never thought I would see Ronaldo discussed in the Wall Street Journal!
Why Cristiano Ronaldo Isn’t a Slave
Cristiano Ronaldo is no Curt Flood. Mr. Ronaldo is a 23-year-old soccer player for Manchester United who is one year into a five-year contract that pays him 125,000 pounds a week, but would like to move to Real Madrid. Mr. Flood was 31 years old when he was making $90,000 and was subject to Major League Baseball’s reserve clause, which gave him no chance at free agency and no control of his future. Mr. Flood famously sued, took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court and lost; his career was essentially over. He compared the reserve clause to slavery. Mr. Ronaldo, angry that he’s being held to the terms of a contract he signed, is also comparing his plight to slavery, latching on to comments to that effect by Seth Blatter, head of soccer’s world governing body.
http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2008/07/11/why-cristiano-ronaldo-isnt-a-slave/
Mr. Flood’s evocation of slavery was controversial; Mr. Ronaldo’s is laughable. “The metaphor Blatter chose was even more unfortunate than his line of argument which, taken to its logical conclusion would allow for no transfer market and let any player leave for the highest bidder at the drop of a hat, with all the consequences that would have for the sport’s poorer clubs,” Ian Herbert writes in the Independent. “But Ronaldo was unmoved. … the idea that a player such as Ronaldo may, one year into a five-year contract, declare on a whim that he wishes to fulfill a ‘dream’ of playing in Spain, banishes any notion of contractual arrangements.”
The Guardian’s Paul Doyle points out that if slavery exists in pro soccer, it’s far removed from situations like that of Mr. Ronaldo and Manchester United. “In the 1970 and 80s many European clubs, notably in Belgium, began luring young Africans with long contracts that sounded lucrative but were in fact deeply exploitative of the fact that the players had little idea of the cost of living in Europe: to a poor young Ghanaian, say, $200 per month seemed a lot — it was only after leaving his homeland that he realised he’d committed himself to years of poverty far from home,” Mr. Doyle writes. “If the player didn’t make the grade, clubs never bothered improving their deals and no one ever explained how to sue for constructive dismissal or what not.
“Similar practices are still rife today, with aspirant professionals, often in their early teens, being trafficked all over the world on the basis of tricks and delusions, as reported here. Third-party ownership of players can facilitate this, helping trap players in penury and leave them vulnerable to further manipulation, such as in the case described here. Blatter would do well to effectively address this as well as riding to the rescue of one of the most privileged players on the planet.”
Why Cristiano Ronaldo Isn’t a Slave
Cristiano Ronaldo is no Curt Flood. Mr. Ronaldo is a 23-year-old soccer player for Manchester United who is one year into a five-year contract that pays him 125,000 pounds a week, but would like to move to Real Madrid. Mr. Flood was 31 years old when he was making $90,000 and was subject to Major League Baseball’s reserve clause, which gave him no chance at free agency and no control of his future. Mr. Flood famously sued, took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court and lost; his career was essentially over. He compared the reserve clause to slavery. Mr. Ronaldo, angry that he’s being held to the terms of a contract he signed, is also comparing his plight to slavery, latching on to comments to that effect by Seth Blatter, head of soccer’s world governing body.
http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2008/07/11/why-cristiano-ronaldo-isnt-a-slave/
Mr. Flood’s evocation of slavery was controversial; Mr. Ronaldo’s is laughable. “The metaphor Blatter chose was even more unfortunate than his line of argument which, taken to its logical conclusion would allow for no transfer market and let any player leave for the highest bidder at the drop of a hat, with all the consequences that would have for the sport’s poorer clubs,” Ian Herbert writes in the Independent. “But Ronaldo was unmoved. … the idea that a player such as Ronaldo may, one year into a five-year contract, declare on a whim that he wishes to fulfill a ‘dream’ of playing in Spain, banishes any notion of contractual arrangements.”
The Guardian’s Paul Doyle points out that if slavery exists in pro soccer, it’s far removed from situations like that of Mr. Ronaldo and Manchester United. “In the 1970 and 80s many European clubs, notably in Belgium, began luring young Africans with long contracts that sounded lucrative but were in fact deeply exploitative of the fact that the players had little idea of the cost of living in Europe: to a poor young Ghanaian, say, $200 per month seemed a lot — it was only after leaving his homeland that he realised he’d committed himself to years of poverty far from home,” Mr. Doyle writes. “If the player didn’t make the grade, clubs never bothered improving their deals and no one ever explained how to sue for constructive dismissal or what not.
“Similar practices are still rife today, with aspirant professionals, often in their early teens, being trafficked all over the world on the basis of tricks and delusions, as reported here. Third-party ownership of players can facilitate this, helping trap players in penury and leave them vulnerable to further manipulation, such as in the case described here. Blatter would do well to effectively address this as well as riding to the rescue of one of the most privileged players on the planet.”
The thing is that there are 203 associations in football.
As long as he has a plurality of corrupt and bribed dictators and other 3rd world nations, he is in the driver's seat.
So it's just stubborness, is it? nothing to do with what Fergie thinks is in the best interests of the club? I'll tell you this, when Ronnie plays his first match of the season in the red shirt, I, for one, will cheer him from the rooftops. Given the immense pressure that the likes of Calderon, Platini, Blatter and the entire world's grubby press, as well as stupid, childish, emotional, short sighted cnuts on 'ere have put on him to leave, the fact he hasn't submitted to it by giving a transfer request speaks volumes for him. He's been battered from one end to the other and still he won't say he wants to leave. He eludes to dreams that may or may not happen, that's all, and in that he's been consistent for years.
And it's precisely attitudes, gratitude and support like I intend to give that will teach him what this club is about. We look after and support our own and Ronnie is still a very important member of it. He's one of us, not a 'sales pitch' that Calderon wants him to be.
Blatter is a cnut.- Status