Cristiano Ronaldo | Summer 2015

Do you want Ronaldo to return to United?

  • Yes

    Votes: 729 64.2%
  • No

    Votes: 406 35.8%

  • Total voters
    1,135
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He's at Madrid and they're still weaker than Barca, with him, we'd be better than Chelsea
Absolutely no guarantee of that. Madrid had him and lost the title to Atletico Madrid last year.

If I were him I'd do the logical thing and stay at the best team I can possibly be at and try and make up that that gap next year with the help of more shiny new signings, rather than go to a new team in transition, new team mates and try and start over. It's an unnecessary risk.
 
Absolutely no guarantee of that. Madrid had him and lost the title to Atletico Madrid last year.

If I were him I'd do the logical thing and stay at the best team I can possibly be at and try and make up that that gap next year with the help of more shiny new signings, rather than go to a new team in transition, new team mates and try and start over. It's an unnecessary risk.

You lot speak like he has to ties to our club. He obviously has affection for United. If he wasnt so expensive at the age of 30 it would be a no brainer for United to pursue him. I think he would solve a lot of our issues in attack and he would draw attention away from other playmakers like ADM, Mata and Depay. My only worry would be would he work with LVG tightly structured set up and tactics. Would Van Gaal allow him the freedom he enjoys? Im not exactly sure he would.
 
You lot speak like he has to ties to our club. He obviously has affection for United. If he wasnt so expensive at the age of 30 it would be a no brainer for United to pursue him. I think he would solve a lot of our issues in attack and he would draw attention away from other playmakers like ADM, Mata and Depay. My only worry would be would he work with LVG tightly structured set up and tactics. Would Van Gaal allow him the freedom he enjoys? Im not exactly sure he would.
I didn't understand this point with regards to my post.
 
I think he would solve a lot of our issues in attack and he would draw attention away from other playmakers like ADM, Mata and Depay. My only worry would be would he work with LVG tightly structured set up and tactics. Would Van Gaal allow him the freedom he enjoys? Im not exactly sure he would.

First point is very good.

Second (highlighted) - Robben in the World Cup had license to do as he pleased for the most part.

Thirdly, does anyone have any idea when this announcement to crush my muppet dreams will be made?
 
We finished 4th, they finished 2 points off. They're far closer to their competition than we are even if our competition is weaker.

The big difference there is Ronaldo's record breaking scoring would win the title for ANY top 4 team in Europe is cancelled out by Messi then all that's left is a team of egotistic super stars that aren't as good as a team of Barcelona which are as good or superior players in every XI spot.

Messi > Ronado
Suarez > Benzema
Neymar > Bale

Iniesta > James
Xavi = Modric
Biscuits >/= Kroos (perhaps as good as each other but they're both playing CDM where Sergio is better)

Alves = Carvajal
Alba = Marcelo
Pique = Ramos
Mascherano > Pepe

Goalies name? > Casillas
 
I said 'no', because I'm sure if he came here he'd be played on the wing, whereas I'd want him as a 9, which he wouldn't because of Rooney.

If he came and we could play ADM, Mata, Depay, Herrera, Carrick and Ronaldo together, I'd be delighted. Add Gundogan or Schneiderlin to the mix and it's party time.
 
The big difference there is Ronaldo's record breaking scoring would win the title for ANY top 4 team in Europe is cancelled out by Messi then all that's left is a team of egotistic super stars that aren't as good as a team of Barcelona which are as good or superior players in every XI spot.

Messi > Ronado
Suarez > Benzema
Neymar > Bale

Iniesta > James
Xavi = Modric
Biscuits >/= Kroos (perhaps as good as each other but they're both playing CDM where Sergio is better)

Alves = Carvajal
Alba = Marcelo
Pique = Ramos
Mascherano > Pepe

Goalies name? > Casillas
Except for the top 4 team Real Madrid when competing against Atletico Madrid, apparently.
 
Announcement was a film being made about him.
 
Soon to be the greatest film ever. :drool:
 
Interestingly, when Becks left, most were happy that the media circus went with him. Only to see the next #7 eventually eclipse the Becks circus.
 
It makes us a figure of ridicule doing this every summer.

But whatever floats your boat.
 
Interestingly, when Becks left, most were happy that the media circus went with him. Only to see the next #7 eventually eclipse the Becks circus.
Another reason to want Di Maria to have a cracking season in 15-16.
 
we should probably close this one, and reopen in 2 years time.
 
The big difference there is Ronaldo's record breaking scoring would win the title for ANY top 4 team in Europe is cancelled out by Messi then all that's left is a team of egotistic super stars that aren't as good as a team of Barcelona which are as good or superior players in every XI spot.

Messi > Ronado
Suarez > Benzema
Neymar > Bale

Iniesta > James
Xavi = Modric
Biscuits >/= Kroos (perhaps as good as each other but they're both playing CDM where Sergio is better)

Alves = Carvajal
Alba = Marcelo
Pique = Ramos
Mascherano > Pepe

Goalies name? > Casillas

James was much better than Iniesta last season and Modric is miles better than the current version of Xavi. It's not even a contest, though obviously Xavi was better in his prime.
 
Six years ago today we accepted the £80m bid for Ronaldo. Seemed like a huge sum at first but RM certainly got their money's worth.
 
Six years ago today we accepted the £80m bid for Ronaldo. Seemed like a huge sum at first but RM certainly got their money's worth.

I wonder how much he'd be worth at that age in the current market, since it's inflated massively since then.
 


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Real Madrid began their hunt for Ronaldo during Ramon Calderon's tenure as president. Calderon and Ronaldo agreed that the player would move to Real Madrid in 2008. Before the Portuguese winger signed a contract, though, Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson convinced him to stay in England for another year. Real Madrid were playing a friendly match in Bogota, Colombia, when news of the postponed deal filtered through to Calderon.

"I got up in the morning to receive a phone call from Real Madrid," Calderon told Bleacher Report. "They said, 'You know what? Cristiano has announced that he's extended his contract.' I said, 'It can't be.'

"Fifteen or 20 minutes later, I got a phone call from Cristiano, saying, 'Mr. President, I'm so sorry. I have to do this because I'm quite happy with the club. Ferguson is like a father to me. I'm in love with the fans, everything here, but we have an agreement I will go next year.'

"I said, 'Of course. It's up to you.' So we arranged everything for the next year. We got all the documents done."

"The problem was that when Florentino came, he said, 'This is not a player for Real Madrid,'" says Calderon. He didn't like to receive inheritances that he couldn't be proud of in the future. He thought, 'This player is not mine. I'm not going to take advantage of this.' He said, 'I think I can have two or three players for the same money. I don't see Cristiano Ronaldo playing at Real Madrid.'

"The player knew that. He got very angry. His agent, Jorge Mendes, said, 'OK, we're going to leave. We are not going to claim the penalty clause.'"

According to Diego Torres, a journalist with El Pais, Real Madrid would sell Ronaldo before his younger, buccaneering team-mate Bale. At this moment in time, however, it wouldn't be acceptable to sell Ronaldo politically. Fans would kick up a fuss. Perez must bide his time.

"Florentino doesn't like Cristiano," says Torres. "He didn't buy him. Florentino dreamed of Bale as a Golden Shoe winner, scoring spectacular goals. His dream is to switch Cristiano with Bale because he created Bale as a superstar. He made him the first €100 million player. He feels Bale is his creation, that everyone relates Bale to him, to Florentino."

He's tired. The play of Cristiano is fundamentally physical. He's not like Messi. He's a beast, a machine. The age will pass a bill to Cristiano," says Miguel Angel Linares, author of a book on the rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona entitled Madrid-Barca: ¡Es La Guerra!

Ronaldo is not Real Madrid's first icon. Others such as Di Stefano, Emilio Butragueno and Raul, whose goalscoring record at Real Madrid will be surpassed by Ronaldo within a year at his current scoring rate, have come and gone. Significantly, none of them finished their playing careers at the club.

Sport is a brutal marketplace that way. Real Madrid, especially while fronted by a president who casts a cold eye on his inherited livestock, could look to cash in on Ronaldo.

Perhaps not this summer, but within a year, the club might think it's time to say, "Adios, Cristiano."
 
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That whole article is interesting. This unrelated bit at the end sums Real Madrid up for me;

"Fans of Real Madrid have an identification with success," says Calderon. "It's not about football. 75 per cent of them are not born in Madrid, so it's not the same as Barcelona, Sevilla or La Coruna, who think the club represents the region. We go to the stadium like it's the opera. If they're not singing right, you just boo, whistle and wave the handkerchiefs. It's something that players, when they come here, they don't understand. 'Why are they booing us? They are not backing us.'"

Strange club.
 


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If Calderon wanted to do that he should have gotten Neymar instead. I don't think bale was the correct shiny toy of his own.

Although, James for 70 million was an even bigger joke of a transfer.
 
Perez sounds like he'd be class at running a dictatorship with a cult of personality.

Kim Jong-Perez.
 
You lot speak like he has to ties to our club. He obviously has affection for United. If he wasnt so expensive at the age of 30 it would be a no brainer for United to pursue him. I think he would solve a lot of our issues in attack and he would draw attention away from other playmakers like ADM, Mata and Depay. My only worry would be would he work with LVG tightly structured set up and tactics. Would Van Gaal allow him the freedom he enjoys? Im not exactly sure he would.

You think Mourinho is more forgiving than Van Gaal on this?
 
Maybe he'll come back if Kevin Roldan can come and sing at his birthday party.
 
Each to their own and all but anybody that doesn't want this man, no matter of price, back at Old Trafford, I just don't understand the logic on that call.

 
He won't leave Madrid until he beats Real's goal record. He will do it this season so I'd say he will be off to however pays him the most money come this time next year.
 
Ronaldo score a hat-trick today.

We made do with Falcao and RVP this year. And some fans are saying that Ronaldo is not required at Man Utd.
Are we talking about the same Ronaldo?

This guy is the at the absolute peak of his powers right now.
 
Each to their own and all but anybody that doesn't want this man, no matter of price, back at Old Trafford, I just don't understand the logic on that call.



And anyone who thinks this man, 11 goals away from becoming Real Madrid's all time greatest goalscorer, is moving anywhere this transfer window, is absolutely delusional.
 
And anyone who thinks this man, 11 goals away from becoming Real Madrid's all time greatest goalscorer, is moving anywhere this transfer window, is absolutely delusional.

As much as I wish for it to be different, I completely agree.
 
Nothing has happened, don't get excited.

How much do you reckon we would have to bid to get him? Would it be feasible to sell Di Maria for ~£60m to P$G, and launch a bid with however much more money on top?

This is next-level muppet mode, mind you. Not saying it's realistic at all but the thought occurred to me.
 
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