ALL Ronaldo's future/comments/speculation
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Good friends with Madrid...?! With friends like them who needs enemies.
Every time I see tis thread I think my blood pressure increases. I really should avoid it but Ronaldo to Madrid speculation is clearly acting like a drug that is keeping the entire cafe occupied.
Real Madrid could and would have signed him at any point over the last 2 or 3 years, if he'd made a serious effort to engineer a move. The Robben and Kaka "deals" (they never signed Kaka) wouldn't have been an issue.
They came closest to doing so after the WC in 2006 but they've been sniffing round him for years.
They often say shit like "you never know about the future, but there should be news soon" when they're getting a new deal.
Don't ever call me a muppet, mate. Ever
Neither they signed Robben at the time, although they were trying very hard to get them tied up because Calderon used their names in his campaign, so they eventually didn't have time for Ronaldo's pursuit. Plus as I said, Capello didn't want him at all, although that wouldn't have been much of a problem at a joke of a club that Madrid are.
I'm not so sure about the WC2006 thing, it was probably blown out of proportion in media...
He was instrumental in dragging us out of the three-year slump and firing us to back to back titles including a European cup / League double. I'll remember that in years to come no matter what he does this Summer.
As far as his future success goes - its doubtful he will have as much chance at the Real circus or whereever he ends up after that.
Ronaldo will suffer more than United
Little does he know that he's turning the fans against him. Stupid move to say the least. Is £10,000 worth losing your fans faith? Hm..
Ronaldo to mention his love for Redcafe tomorrow in the press conference. You've heard it here first.
never will think of you as one mate....never thought anything could bring me down after the season we had...but this Ronaldo bollox sure has left me a bit worried....I still think this is all about him wanting a much better contract....which I think he has earned....
lets hope common sense prevails all round....
Don't start the hate thing ffs, he will stay.
As I've said, he will probably end up at Benfica within 3 years if he leaves. You cannot really thrive as a player if you play for an unstable team like Real.
The day Ronaldo leaves we would find another star to take the #7 and become the star player, like it always has been.
Damn right.
Ramsey
If Ronaldo goes to Real, he'll have more money and more of the attention he craves so much. But I bet you if you ask him later in his career, he'll say he wished he'd stayed at United. We'll see.
A 29 year old Zidane went for €76m so we should be expecting to get at least £70m with the potential he still has never mind the fact he is already the best player in the world.
So he is definitely announcing something tomorrow, yes?!
This is killing me, I'm trying to revise as well.
This is killing me, I'm trying to revise as well.
Same, this is sick. Someone should tell him that.
Like I said many times before, this is all so fecking predictabel. Heres my prediction for his next press conference
"Now I concentrate on Portugal and Euro championship. After that I decide my future"
The media go wild with the uncertainty, continue make up bollocks every two hours and get innumerable hits on their web sites and sell many many papers. And this thread marches on to the 1000 page mark.
Like I said many times before, this is all so fecking predictabel. Heres my prediction for his next press conference
"Now I concentrate on Portugal and Euro championship. After that I decide my future"
The media go wild with the uncertainty, continue make up bollocks every two hours and get innumerable hits on their web sites and sell many many papers. And this thread marches on to the 1000 page mark.
Sounds about right.
Like I said many times before, this is all so fecking predictabel. Heres my prediction for his next press conference
"Now I concentrate on Portugal and Euro championship. After that I decide my future"
The media go wild with the uncertainty, continue make up bollocks every two hours and get innumerable hits on their web sites and sell many many papers. And this thread marches on to the 1000 page mark.
Spot on. And, equals me failing exams.
Spelt like that it's OKmuppt
Thanx. I deleted it now.
If he does leave, life will move on, United will move on. Ronaldo will live to regret moving like so many other players. Will he leave? The more this drags on, the more I think he is.
I don't buy that he wants to play for real now.
If he was gonna go he'd have gone after the rooney world cup incident.
Why would he go now? People were burning effigies of him yet he chose to stay.
If he was gonna go he'd have gone after the rooney world cup incident.
Why would he go now? People were burning effigies of him yet he chose to stay.
dreaming about a six month old boy..really?. Well i'm sure his agent was even present at the birth....he was probably the doctor.. Bullshit article.I'll give everybody on this forum a blowjob if he signs for Madrid this summer.
That would certainly soften the blow. Pun intended
I'm such a Ihni binni dimi diniwiny anitaime when it comes to spelling.
this thread will be remembered as the epic ronaldo will he or wont he thread of summer 2008
That post makes the most sense to me.
The Ronaldo saga shows how the media can influence the mindset of one and all. He has stated something very clearly, i.e he wants to stay at MU for now and he can not predict the future. The second half of the statement is said keeping wisdom in mind and not his supposed move to Real. He has been long enough here to know that no player can guarantee himself an entire career. He replaced a nailed on legend. He has seen his best mate shown the doors to Madrid last summer. His former record-breaking team-mate van Nistelrooy is another high-profile exit.
For all the fan-talk of Giggs, Scholes and Gary Neville, football was rarely a Utopian sport injected with morality and ethics. Look at fans wishing death and failure on remotely dislikable clubs let alone hardcore rivals. The above three are exceptions. The funny aspect is, when someone like a Shearer, Gascoigne, Lucas Neil, Le Tissier, Southgate, etc reject high-profile moves suddenly the debate shifts from loyalty to ambition. Look at Wes Brown and how long he held out to squeeze more cash. Or Roy Keane. Or for that matter, would any of the Nevilles, Scholeses and Giggses stayed with menial wages had United not been at the pinnacle of both the trophy and (subsequent) financial charts? I'd highly doubt so. No one expects them to reject higher paying jobs in real life, why is football any different?
I hope fans take a stance as to either like a player whenever he's at the club and wish him the very best once he's moved on irrespective of the future club/manner, or do not like players at all (a highly unnatural tendency). A few weeks ago, he was the pin up boy, the most blessed footballing article of MU fans. It only takes a few weeks and some media twists and turns to change the masses' opinion.
Deriving from all that Ronaldo has said until now, if you look at mind over matter, it is evident that he wants to stay at the club. Plus, everyone will forget all the media brainwash once he starts banging them in next season onwards.
So he's staying then? Great.
We should loan him out to Sunderland. I personally believe Keano could use a player of Ronaldo qualities.
If things keep dragging on it will probably rival the legendary Teveth thread
Teveth thread is overrated.. was full of Kermit smilies and teveth smilies.
This here is much, much more dramatic.
hehe, true enough. It was fun though !
Barcelona to join race for Cristiano Ronaldo
By Mark Ogden and Richard Morgan
Last Updated: 9:01pm BST 04/06/2008
Manchester United could be forced to repel the advances of Spain's two biggest clubs in the battle to hold onto Cristiano Ronaldo with Barcelona preparing to rival Real Madrid in the race to sign the Portuguese forward.
Ronaldo, currently preparing for Portugal's Euro 2008 opener against Turkey on Saturday, has been at the centre of a tug-of-war between United and Real in recent weeks, with the Spanish champions making no secret of their desire to tempt the 23-year-old from Old Trafford.
But boardroom tensions at Barcelona could result in the Catalan giants fighting it out with Real for Ronaldo if the club's former vice-president, Sandro Rosell, succeeds in his bid to unseat the president, Joan Laporta, in a vote of confidence amongst Barca's members.
Laporta and Rosell worked together to win the presidency in 2003 and the two men drove the club's ultimately unsuccessful attempts to sign David Beckham from United, who accepted a £25m bid from Barca before selling the midfielder to Real.
Rosell and Laporta went on to split acrimoniously, but reports in Spain suggest that Rosell, a former Nike executive, is planning to spark a battle for the Barcelona presidency this summer, with an audacious plan to sign Ronaldo central to his bid.
With Ronaldo positioned as their flagship footballer, it is understood that Nike would prefer him to move to Barcelona rather than adidas-sponsored Real, should he leave United.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/06/04/ufnronaldo204.xml
By Mark Ogden and Richard Morgan
Last Updated: 9:01pm BST 04/06/2008
Manchester United could be forced to repel the advances of Spain's two biggest clubs in the battle to hold onto Cristiano Ronaldo with Barcelona preparing to rival Real Madrid in the race to sign the Portuguese forward.
Ronaldo, currently preparing for Portugal's Euro 2008 opener against Turkey on Saturday, has been at the centre of a tug-of-war between United and Real in recent weeks, with the Spanish champions making no secret of their desire to tempt the 23-year-old from Old Trafford.
But boardroom tensions at Barcelona could result in the Catalan giants fighting it out with Real for Ronaldo if the club's former vice-president, Sandro Rosell, succeeds in his bid to unseat the president, Joan Laporta, in a vote of confidence amongst Barca's members.
Laporta and Rosell worked together to win the presidency in 2003 and the two men drove the club's ultimately unsuccessful attempts to sign David Beckham from United, who accepted a £25m bid from Barca before selling the midfielder to Real.
Rosell and Laporta went on to split acrimoniously, but reports in Spain suggest that Rosell, a former Nike executive, is planning to spark a battle for the Barcelona presidency this summer, with an audacious plan to sign Ronaldo central to his bid.
With Ronaldo positioned as their flagship footballer, it is understood that Nike would prefer him to move to Barcelona rather than adidas-sponsored Real, should he leave United.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/06/04/ufnronaldo204.xml
I did say say so somewhere in the depths of this thread. Barcelona could be the club he might want to go to, not Madrid.
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