Unfortunately, this is very much the case.
Cristiano Ronaldo
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Unfortunately, this is very much the case.
This. Stir stirring or not, it's what we want to hear.
Pauldy son/Paul Dyson/Pauldy's on barely said he read it. No-one has said they believed it.
I did not believe a word of it, I just posted to see what other thought.
We wouldn't pay that.
No, but the rumour is that General Motors would contribute a handsome percentage.
Why is a company that needed to be bailed out, contributing to transfer funds?
That rumour makes no sense.
Nike apparently. All about getting a superstar athlete back from an Adidas team. Or some BS to that effect.
Pretty ridiculous thing to say. Why does any business spend any money on advertising/marketing??
Yeah but even if it were true, we don't know Ronaldo would be demanding those wages from Us.
I've heard it's more to do with wages as they'd be signing him up as a global ambassador for their brand.
It's not that stupid. Gm want to raise their European profile, hence their sponsorship of mufc. What better way to raise your profile than with the most marketable athlete on the planet, certainly in Europe anyway.
It wouldn't be any transfer fee contribution, they would hire him as a gm ambassador on £x per year on the proviso that he signs for utd. That then amounts to a substantial reduction in the fee we would have to pay him. Sure Nike would do the same (think they do already actually).
Sorry to break it to you but I can't afford him.
GM America are loaded now... they've got no problems at all. GM Europe are definitely in the brown stuff, but they keep getting bailed out by America. If they want to improve their profile then it makes sense to tie up with a global icon... which Ronaldo is. Say they contributed 10m a year. That's chicken feed to them.
No it's not. Our tax dollars just paid them tons of money because of their bad fiscal decisions. I don't think it's ridiculous to question whether this may be another bad fiscal decision.
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Nike and General Motors are going to ride to the rescue!fecking nonsense.
Those tax dollars have been repaid with interest following their ipo. You made a packet on your bail out money.
Regardless, you think that any bailed out company shouldn't ever spend a cent on marketing again? RBS should never again advertise on tv, GM and AIG should never again spend one cent on marketing?? The whole point of marketing is that in the end you make more money than you spend either directly or indirectly through increased brand perception/awareness.
Plus we are talking about $10-$15m per year, A completely insignificant sum when compared to their total marketing budget.
fecking nonsense.
Not saying it is likely by any means but to say that it is nonsense is itself, quite frankly, nonsense.
That's not what I said, stop jumping ahead to the most extreme interpretation of my posts. I don't have the first clue about marketing. Is it a good idea? I don't know, that's why I asked. You'll note that I didn't definitively state it was a bad idea.
Whether or not they repaid the loan isn't the point. The point is that they have shown the ability to make financially catastrophic decisions in the recent past. It's reasonable to question whether or not this would be one that would contribute to another bankruptcy. If they go bankrupt in 2014 and pay the loans back by 2019, it still isn't a good situation for either the company or the country.
If someone is a marketing expert, I'm happy to be educated on the subject.
Until then, I don't think it is unreasonable to express a bit of skepticism.
I would expect a camera man to use better terminology than 'camera people'. Hope you're right though.
I do like this line
That wasn't his terminology.
He said camera crews.
we need a muppet cull
Time for Dwayne to move this to the transfer forum/reopen the Ronnie transfer thread??
8th of August. Bewieve!
Come on mate, it's for the good of United, out with the foldin' money.
GM has a market cap of over $51 billion. The profit for the last 3 months after tax was just under $1 billion, Assuming they paid Ronaldo $50m/year (clearly a massively ridiculous, never going to happen total), we are talking about this transaction increasing their operating expenses by 0.04%.
In no way humanly possible can this have any impact on the financial security of gm. Man utd is a piddly fish in the pond to gm. If they can increase their brand presence in Europe through hiring Ronaldo to translate into even a 0.5% increase in sales, then they will be laughing.
I have no idea if this is a good move for them or not. I am just saying that the idea it couldn't happen is nonsense, as is the idea that it could somehow impact on the stability/financial strength of their business.
Yeah what happened to all those donations you took from the bring Ronnie home website.
Don't want him back
What's is this 8th august bullshit? I mean apart from it being hulk hogan's birthday.
Yeah ok
Lies, all lies. Stop it.
Howard Nurse says it's not happening.
That queen from Coronation Street says it is, and on 8th August.
I don't know what to think
That queen from Coronation Street says it is, and on 8th August.
I don't know what to think
its just unfortunate that their cars are shit.
We seem to hear every few years about how moves will be bankrolled by sponsors who don't want their stars playing in Adidas/Nike kits. It never materialises though. If Ronaldo wants back then he'll take a hell of a financial hit, but he might be willing.
Corvettes are quite nice. I mean sure they had a bad run in the late 80s early 90s where they were boring but the new ones are lovely.
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