Thing is the media always use his name for clicks and I'm sure he knows that, I wouldn't be surprised if 90% of stories are BS . He could have just nipped it all in the bud at the time, but he kept silent which fueled the rumours more.
Yeah, but so could the club. And 19/20 times they would.
Imagine if every big news outlet following this team was duped into believing that De Gea requested a transfer — while it was totally untrue — would the club be silent about it?
Even if sports journalists aren’t that careful, I bet our PR guy got loads and loads of calls about this report. For it to stand, the reply must have been “no comment”, instead of just shutting it done.
If this is true — I 100% think it puts Ronaldo’s actions in a different light. It means that he wanted to stay and we wanted to clear house and get rid of him.
If he then walks out against Tottenham for example, it’s just a very different context. Instead of it being “he doesn’t want to be here, he wanted out, nobody wanted him, he isn’t good enough and then cries about it” it’s “the club want to get rid of him but they want to make it seem like it’s him that wants to leave the club, when he in fact turned down several offers to make, then it does seem like they are almost baiting him to flip by saying he needs a preseason when others don’t, sending him on for 3 mins against Tottenham” etc etc.
Mind you:
(a) If Ronaldo doesn’t want to work with ETH, if he goes “oh you think you found a Coke in the desert” when ETH draws up his Xs and Os — I 100% support us getting rid of him. But it’s a really crappy way to do it by making it out like Ronaldo is the one requesting a transfer if he isn’t.
(b) It just don’t sound very credible, does it? I am not saying it’s true, Ronaldo could be lying.
->Ultimately it just confuses me,
why this is not the big topic of conversation after the interview? Unless I just completely misundstood what he said — but others have confirmed that they interpreted it the same way — it is the ONLY real news item to come out of this interview. Everyone thought Ronaldo wanted out to score goals in the CL, while it was the club that was trying to kick him out and he wanted to stay.