It said he was speaking to a Brazilian newspaper, as in the reporter from it was at a press conference.
said Ronaldo in an interview with the respected Brazilian website Terra
If it was press conference that the paper said was yesterday, we'd have heard something by now.
News doesn't take an entire day to filter through...it's 2008.
If it was press conference that the paper said was yesterday, we'd have heard something by now.
News doesn't take an entire day to filter through...it's 2008.
Manchester United must face the real possibility that Cristiano Ronaldo has played his final match for the club after the Portuguese winger publicly declared his intention to join Real Madrid at the end of the European Championship.
Speaking from Portugal's training camp in the Swiss city of Neuchatel on Wednesday, Ronaldo made a keenly awaited statement on his future. The 23-year-old stated that he wanted to leave Old Trafford to sign for the Spanish champions if they made good on their promises of world record transfer fees and wages. Spanish media reports have placed the value of a Madrid offer to United at €100m and the player's salary at £15m a year.
"I want to play for Real Madrid, but only if it is true they are eager to pay me and Manchester United what they have been saying they will," said Ronaldo in an interview with the respected Brazilian website Terra. "However, it does not depend on me."
The issue of Ronaldo's future has been the dominant feature of Portugal's European Championship training camp, overshadowing the team's preparations and seeing questions raised about the player's state of mind. Hoping to prevent inquests at national team press conferences and post-match mixed zones, Ronaldo insisted that he would not speak about his choice of club again during the tournament.
"It is important to send a message," he said. "From now on I will not talk again about this until the end of the Euros. It is not worth asking me because I will not reply."
United have repeatedly stated that they will not allow Ronaldo to move this summer, but the club may now have to improve the five-year contract they agreed with the forward in April 2007. Given the scale of Madrid's offer, the player can expect to comfortably exceed the net €10m that Michael Ballack receives from Chelsea each year.
You'd have to admit it's a bit more definite than anything else we've seen though.
That looks completely fake. Some of the words and phrases used don't sound right at all.
He's gotta go...no player is bigger then the club, and if Barca or Milan or anyone else come up with a better offer, we should to them and not the Franco pricks.
No mention of MARCA in the article. Don't call me a muppet. I don't look on it as Gospel. Just something to share on here. It's just a report that's out there and I saw it hadn't been posted before. Not in a UK paper like the Telegraph, normally on the ball.
No mention of MARCA in the article.
Marca say that Portugal national team coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has already spoken to his star player about the transfer at their Euro 2008 training camp in Switzerland and has advised him to move to the Spanish capital, although Ronaldo is being urged by the Portuguese football federation not to make his decision public until after their opening match with Turkey, so as not to distract the side.
April 2007.
Fact is, the article states these comments were made yesterday.
It's not possible in the modern era, for such big news on a hot topic to go unreported to the world for 24 hours.
We'd have heard about this straight away, if it was true.
Still, Ronaldos being a fecking cock with his behaviour on this matter.
When has he ever said that?That is true and it seems like its only the Guardian that's really carrying the ball with these stories at the moment in this country. But we all know that he wants to go to Spain and that he would have no qualms about leaving this summer. No matter what he says or doesn't say over the coming weeks, the story is only going to keep perpetuating itself and eventually we may all lose the will to live. The only thing that we know definitively is that its his dream to play in Spain. I don't think we could ever command a larger fee for him than we can at this moment in time, so I'm really inclined to feel that we should sell him.
Cristiano Ronaldo voltou a dizer que os brasileiros, para ele, são "família". O atacante já esteve duas vezes no País e quer voltar. "Tenho ótima relação com os brasileiros, gostei muito das viagens que fiz para lá e espero retornar em breve", concluiu.
When has he ever said that?
Anyone know what the feck this bit means?
Anyone know what the feck this bit means?
So says google translation:Anyone know what the feck this bit means?
that he likes brasil and wants to go there again.
That's the problem with this whole thread. It's just speculation. We don't know if he wants to go this summer, we just assume we know what he is thinking. Fact is, he said right after the CL that he wanted to stay. That is good enough for me. This whole speculation bit is being made by the press.Sorry, the second part of that isn't anything he said, you're right. But its something I think deep down most people feel. If he had the chance to go now then he probably would.
So says google translation:
Cristiano Ronaldo returned to say that the Brazilians, for him, are "family". The attacker was already twice in the country and wants back. "I have great relationship with the Brazilians, like most of the trips I made there and hope to return soon," he concluded.