Christiano Ronaldo - NO current rumors

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When this same story happened last season tons of people did the 'if he's available we have to buy him'... 'he can play until he's 40' nonsense.

He was already in age related decline, same as every player in their 30s, and his poor performances this season are no surprise.
 
Would make a great impact sub.
 
off to LA galaxy or New York.. or perhaps back to Portugal.

lets stop romanticizing about this, as mentioned before CR is 33. love him to bits but nah, he knows how physical the prem can get - it would not be a good move for him.
 
Unless its very cheap, like Beckham transfer money, then nah. If its that cheap, good signing. No way anyone would pay him half a mil a week though, ludicrous!
 
No thanks, maybe 2 seasons ago! He used us to get a bigger contract. He know he’s in decline and there’s no way ZZ will keep him as Madrids star man anymore.

We have Martial, Rashford, “Sanchez” maybe and we cant afford his wages to have him sulking about and taking up the LF position.

I love Ronaldo and he’s been my favourite Unjted player but we simply dont need him on out wage bill anymore. There’s better talent out there for his sort of money.
 
You all say no now, but if it came to fruition every single one of you would shed a quart of caffeine stained make baby juice.
 
From a marketing point of view Cristiano is a gold mine and trust me when I say this (even though people often say crap like shirt sales blabla...) but he really CAN pay for himself. The number of followers (not fans) he brings is unparalleled and in todays digital marketing world numbers are invaluable.

Just for reference the club has 71m followers on facebook CR has 120m even if everyone of our is also his thats 49mil followers more. Which is about a 60% increase in facebook reach.
Instagram an increadible 500% (20m to ronaldos 119m). If you could turn those numbers into marketing cost it would be enormous and extremely time consuming. I'm not saying we automaticaly gain his followers but you get the gist without explaining I hope.

If we can get him cheap on a max 3 year contract and he's able and willing to play the striker role it would make sense. However with his ego and the potential arrival of Alexis I don't see the space for Ronnie as much as I'd like him back.
 
Jorge Mendes doesn't need to use new tricks when the same scheme works every year.
 
Sky1981 said:
3 years is a good deal even at 600k considering he's free (if he's free)
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Close but no cigar. He's on ~€50/55m a year. Do the math

Anyways, if he really wants to leave, or another contract after we gave him one little over a year ago, you're welcome to him
 
I've fallen for this once before.

Not again. Ronaldo is our past anyway, we need to look to the future.
 
desirere said:
From a marketing point of view Cristiano is a gold mine and trust me when I say this (even though people often say crap like shirt sales blabla...) but he really CAN pay for himself. The number of followers (not fans) he brings is unparalleled and in todays digital marketing world numbers are invaluable.

Just for reference the club has 71m followers on facebook CR has 120m even if everyone of our is also his thats 49mil followers more. Which is about a 60% increase in facebook reach.
Instagram an increadible 500% (20m to ronaldos 119m). If you could turn those numbers into marketing cost it would be enormous and extremely time consuming. I'm not saying we automaticaly gain his followers but you get the gist without explaining I hope.

If we can get him cheap on a max 3 year contract and he's able and willing to play the striker role it would make sense. However with his ego and the potential arrival of Alexis I don't see the space for Ronnie as much as I'd like him back.
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Yeah, no. The club makes no money from his (or any player's) Instagram followers. The club, through the increased exposure, can perhaps negotiate better marketing contracts with our marketing partners but that's about it. Ongoing contractual marketing agreements won't even change until they're up for renewal. With most of them having a 3-5 year duration, it's very unlikely we'll any significant spike in short term revenue to justify the ridiculous contract he'll want.
 
The time has passed for this, the problem Ronaldo has is he's got nowhere to go if he wants out of Real Madrid and to still stay in Europe.
 
It's way too late. It's not like we could sign him on a short term, club friendly deal. He would get a 5-year contract at massive wages and there is no way he will be worth the money we would have to pay for him.
 
Nobody wants him back but in the thread Ronaldo vs Messi three crazy CR fanbois swear that Ronaldo is the best player ever, me no entender.
 
These rumours will continue until we either sign him or he retires.
 
Every fecking window this happens. Now in January window too :mad::mad:
 
MadMike said:
Yeah, no. The club makes no money from his (or any player's) Instagram followers. The club, through the increased exposure, can perhaps negotiate better marketing contracts with our marketing partners but that's about it. Ongoing contractual marketing agreements won't even change until they're up for renewal. With most of them having a 3-5 year duration, it's very unlikely we'll any significant spike in short term revenue to justify the ridiculous contract he'll want.
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Yes erm let's hope you're not in charge of our marketing dep. I have one more post remaining for today so we'll leave it at that.
 
obviously this'll never happen but i wouldn't be dead against it.
the guy is an absolute specimen and as determined as you get, i can see him playing till 40 and still scoring at a decent rate if not the god level he's done in the past
i think tales of his demise are premature and it would be kinda funny to see him come back and take rooneys scoring record

but yeah, never happening
 
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