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So...everyone reckons he's off now? Am I alone in still thinking he's going to stay..? (even if it's just for 1 more year)
To be fair, you dont get many chances to join a club like Real. He has turned them down for the last couple of seasons. If he doesnt move this season, they may eventually get tired like United were when Atletico refused to sell Torres.
Stay for one year for what.?....so we can extend this thread to 1,000,000 pages...think not.So...everyone reckons he's off now? I am alone in still thinking he's going to stay..? (even if it's just for 1 more year)
So...everyone reckons he's off now? Am I alone in still thinking he's going to stay..? (even if it's just for 1 more year)
Stay for one year for what.?....so we can extend this thread to 1,000,000 pages...think not.
See out yer contract boy or announce your with us forever.
Otherwise feck off. (I love you though).
Erm, so on the day he was supposed to tell us his 'decision'...erm nothings been said????
Something dodgy there.
ATTENTION SEEKING
Ronnie attention seeking? Never. He's such a humble person who never talks to the media.
How would Ronaldo fit in to the Real team? Does their style of play suit his? Real have already said that he cannot have the number 7 shirt if he joins them - thats Rauls.
Another article
Reasoning sounds feasable ( almost always does ) but it is still speculation
But still no word from Ronnie
As written by Jim White
Yahoo Sport and Eurosport
He's off...
Wed Jun 04 02:12PM
Unless we have all read the signs wrongly and in fact he was just doing it all along to gain a bit of attention, this weekend Cristiano Ronaldo is going to announce his wish to join Real Madrid. Of course he is: if he had no intention of courting the Spanish champions he would have stated simply and clearly a month ago that he was happy to stay at Manchester United. But he didn't because all along he has wanted to go play for the team his mum, his godfather, his agent and his Uncle Tom Cobley and all have been dreaming of him joining since he conducted his first step-over at the age of six months. For the finest player to pull on a red shirt in a generation, United was only ever a stepping stone to reach his ultimate destination. The moment the team in white came in from him, there was to be no holding him. He was off.
The intriguing thing is what happens next. If Ronaldo thinks it will just be a case of contacting his bank to send a wheelbarrow round to the Bernabeu to pick up his first wage packet, he has another think coming. Even with a promised fee of £70million, United are not going to make it easy. If they don't want to sell, they are under no obligation to do so. Alex Ferguson has already stated that he is happy to let the player "rot in the reserves" rather than let him go to Madrid. And since he is under contract for three more years that is an awful lot of rotting to do. He might be decidedly whiffy at the end of that spell.
United have seen a steady stream of players heading westwards out of Manchester to Madrid these past few years. David Beckham, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Gabriel Heinze have all headed there since 2003. But, as Ferguson has been at pains to point out, he no longer required the services of that particular trio. He was happy for them to go. Pleased to bank the cheque and move on. Ronaldo is a very different case. Not only is his skill, his panache, his bravery crucial to United's style of play (as anyone would be who scores 42 goals in a season) Ferguson will not wish to see his multitude of talents being employed for a direct rival. Which, in these Champions League dominated times, is what Madrid are, as much a direct rival to United as Liverpool, Arsenal or Manchester City. Actually, rather more than Manchester City. So the United manager will do everything he can to stand in the way of such a move. In 22 years at Old Trafford, Ferguson prides himself on never letting go a player he wanted to keep. The man has a way of getting what he wants.
So if Ronaldo is obliged to stay against his wishes what then? About ten years ago, Prince, in a bid to release himself from his long-term record contract, changed his name to some incomprehensible hieroglyphic and continually had himself photographed with the word "slave" scribbled on his knuckles. George Michael too spent an age trying to extricate himself from his deal with Sony, refusing to produce any material for them even though he was contractually obliged to do so. Can we expect the same of Ronaldo? Will he have himself pictured in the stands at Old Trafford during matches in a set of handcuffs? Will he fling the biggest sulk since Nicolas Anelka was born? Will he go on perpetual strike? In which case, what would happen if United had a terrible injury crisis, say Nani fell over his own ego in training, what then? Would Ronaldo be expected to step in (or rather step over) as cover?
It could be interesting times ahead in the court of the Lollipop King. But whatever happens, United fans need to start getting used to this unpalatable truth: unless he really is just the biggest tease on the planet and all this dallying with Madrid was just a bit of a giggle, that magnificent goal he scored in Moscow in the Champions League final was the last one Ronaldo will ever net for the club.
Fergie said "he's more than confident he's staying"
That means he's definitely probably staying. That's good.
If we was off why would he keep 'preparing' to make some big announcement and putting it off every few days? He's waiting to announce and arrange a big pay rise.
Best point was made purely to show that you don't have to stay at United forever. And I am pretty sure cafites would have slagged him off back in the day given his off field shinanigans.
Already said if Ronaldo leaves in this manner he won't be considered a legend. But there is no way he will disliked more than someone like Heinze.
This was weird. Taking sweeties from strangers.....
"When a Spanish journalist upstaged a press conference last week at the squad's base at Viseu, northern Portugal, by presenting the player with a Real team poster and telling him: "I am here to say one thing: 'We want you with us,'" an employee of the Portuguese Football Federation tried to intervene. Ronaldo waved away the official's protestations and insisted on receiving the poster. "It's a present for me. I want it," he said. "
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To be fair, you dont get many chances to join a club like Real. He has turned them down for the last couple of seasons. If he doesnt move this season, they may eventually get tired like United were when Atletico refused to sell Torres.
So who's the Crunt, the guy who wants to play first team football, or the guy who is at the Top of his game and is out for the biggest pay deal in football ever ?
I can guarantee you that I will hate Ronaldo more if he goes out in the press tomorrow and craves a move to Liverpool, trying to get into court all summer for it to be pushed through. Will never happen though.Is Heinze disliked so much because he wanted a move to liverpool, or just because he wanted out?
The difference is ( correct me if I'm wrong ) Heinze wanted first team football, and knew he was second choice behind Evra and was told he could leave. It was just liverpool we wouldn't sell to.
If he had still been first choice, would he have been happy to stay?
So who's the Crunt, the guy who wants to play first team football, or the guy who is at the Top of his game and is out for the biggest pay deal in football ever ?
My god, spit in our eye in public why don't you Ronnie.
If he was made out of chocolate he'd eat himself for sure.
I will not be banned, right?
I will not be banned, right?
I dont even think anyone would bother to ban you... it was that poor of an attempt.
That was the shittest piece of wummery yet, at least write a few fake quotes.
I will not be banned, right?
it was kinda cute in a way.
I scared the shit out of you, that's enough.
Or is it the guy who makes false allegations in his biography against his former manager only to sell a few books and ends up paying millions as damages for defamation ?
Gooners aren't the unstrangest people there is either.What the feck has a comparision between Heinze and Ronaldo got to do with Rooney? Strange attack to make imo.
Will you lot wish him well IF he moves to Real this year?
Will you lot wish him well IF he moves to Real this year?