Cristiano Ronaldo

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Vato1979 said:
Imagine how one of your regular starters would feel if he had to make way for a player that wanted to go try his luck somewhere else? I think I'd feel the same way about it as Spoony, once a player leaves then that's that. No turning back. I'd honestly prefer him to go back to United if he had to leave, but from a United supporter's point of view, I can understand Spoony.
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I also don't want him back. Completely agree with vato. We are doing fine without him.
 
TheBest said:
I also don't want him back. Completely agree with vato. We are doing fine without him.
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We also did fine without RVP, but our attack is miles better with him. Stick Ronaldo on that left winger/attacker position and then what do you have? The best attack in the world, no doubt.

This is the same argument as with RVP - we need other player, why go for him when we can have a slightly better midfielder than what we have now. If you can get world class players and there is room for them - get them.
 
Rossa said:
We also did fine without RVP, but our attack is miles better with him. Stick Ronaldo on that left winger/attacker position and then what do you have? The best attack in the world, no doubt.

This is the same argument as with RVP - we need other player, why go for him when we can have a slightly better midfielder than what we have now. If you can get world class players and there is room for them - get them.
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You misunderstood me. I am ok, if we sign Messi. I just don't want ronaldo back. Once a player leaves, he leaves for me.
 
Again...all this doesn't matter, we can't afford him. AS have written bullshit before.
 
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But I still don't understand that.
 
Probably just something to do with their laundry room. The all have the same gear so to make sure they get their own gear back after laundry, they stick a number on them. The badge is different material than the training suit, and it probably sticks bettter.
 
marcosdeto said:
how? acording to the journos PSG and Shitty have over 100 million euros to pay for him

do we have that kind of money?
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I don't think he will be joining them for money. We don't need to splash more cash for him to join us. I think he'd rather join us than City or PSG.
 
marcosdeto said:
how? acording to the journos PSG and Shitty have over 100 million euros to pay for him

do we have that kind of money?
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yes, he would though be the only player we'd sign that off season.
 
Cristiano_RAFC said:
Probably just something to do with their laundry room. The all have the same gear so to make sure they get their own gear back after laundry, they stick a number on them. The badge is different material than the training suit, and it probably sticks bettter.
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With Cristiano it's always polemic.
 
marcosdeto said:
ok ... let me have my doubts about that
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He'll get a huge contract where ever he goes - if he goes anywhere.

I honestly think if he does move it will be to United. His move to Madrid has perhaps shown him that the grass is not always greener. I think those considerations will have an impact on his decision and I don't think that, for what could be the last big move he has in his career, he wants to move to something completely alien to him.

Just my thoughts.
 
Cristiano_RAFC said:
Probably just something to do with their laundry room. The all have the same gear so to make sure they get their own gear back after laundry, they stick a number on them. The badge is different material than the training suit, and it probably sticks bettter.
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They do laundry? I thought professional players wore new clothes every day. :(
 
Is he really leaving them? Right now, I wouldn't be surprised.

Marca has become increasingly, if not negative, then certainly passive towards him. Instead of the customary partying / late for training rumours that usually signal that Madrid are preparing the fans for a departure, it's more of a, "Shouldn't Ozil takes the free kicks," "Rest Ronaldo, so Morata can play more," "buy Bale, to give Ronaldo some competition/backup on the leftwing," "buy Neymar because he'll be the next person not called Messi to win the Ballon D'Or," "buy Falcao, because," - drip, drip, drip campaign.

AS haven't gone quite that far yet, but they tend to be less aggressive.

Where to? I loved watching him play for us, but I do have a bit of a, "you should never go back - it can never be the same," reaction to the idea. But I certainly don't want him at City. And PSG seems like a waste.

OK, then, I'd take him back :lol:
 
MUFC on his shirt
Rooney's bald head gleaming
Three years of Bebe
Never stopped me dreaming
He's coming home He's coming home, He's coming
Ronaldo's coming home
 
IF he would want to come back (and only come here), then I expect it would be made to work despite the ridiculous numbers involved - but I don't expect he will want to return.

Out of interest, what is the position of United to image rights?
 
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Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson wants to re-sign Cristiano Ronaldo but says he is 'unbuyable'
Cristiano Ronaldo returns to play in Manchester this week for the first time since his £80 million move from Manchester United to Real Madrid three years ago with United manager Sir Alex Ferguson admitting that he still harbours hopes of one day re-signing the Portuguese.

Ronaldo faces Manchester City – rather than United – with City manager Roberto Mancini stating “we don’t have any chance of going through to the second stage [of the Champions League] but football is strange”.
If the prospect of City, with two points and bottom of their group, beating Real and then defeating Borussia Dortmund away appears a mission improbable, the likelihood of Ferguson reacquiring Ronaldo is even more of a pipe dream, describing him as “unbuyable”.
Asked if he wanted him back at Old Trafford, Ferguson said of the 27 year-old: “I don’t think it will happen but I would like to think it would. You’re talking about incredible amounts of money now. What would his value be? He’s a fit boy, he’s never injured and he never misses a game.
“He always wanted to play for Real Madrid. That was his boyhood dream and he’s got that but I’m not saying he’s staying there forever.
“There’s every chance he might leave, you never know. He’s definitely unbuyable. Who could afford him? One of the Russian teams could buy him but do you think he’d want to go to Russia?”

Ferguson has already gone on record as claiming that Ronaldo was worth £160 million and feels that Real got a bargain for a player who has scored more than 160 goals in three years.
United have smoothly negotiated their group, albeit one far less challenging that City’s, and have already qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League with four victories. It means Ferguson can rest players for the away trip to Galatasaray on Tuesday and will also be able to include defender Phil Jones who is finally fit again after a series of back and knee problems.
Mancini, meanwhile, reprised his tactic of last season when it appeared City had blown their opportunity of winning the Premier League by flatly dismissing their chances of progressing — stating his target now was to finish third and qualify for the next stage of the Europa League ahead of Ajax.
“We have two games and we want to stay in the Europa League it’s an important trophy,” he said.
“It’s the second year in the Champions League that we’ve had a difficult group. If we don’t go through it’s because we made some mistakes not because Borussia Dortmund are a top team at this moment, like us, like Real Madrid. Madrid have more experience than us and are better than us as a team.”
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Gary Neville said:
I will never forget coming back from a game against Charlton some time after Cristiano Ronaldo had signed for Manchester United and thinking to myself: 'Do you know what? I just give up with him.' He had been flailing around on the ground, he was never in his position and he was unreliable. As someone who had played with David Beckham and Ryan Giggs, world-class players who worked up and down and did the ugly part of the game, playing with Cristiano Ronaldo was a constant frustration.

He would go wandering off to the left, to the right, up the middle; he was inconsistent; and he would cost us. I remember him giving the ball away at Chelsea in the Mourinho years and Chelsea scoring. He would win us a match but then we wouldn't see him for the next game. I remember snapping at him and going crazy once when he tried to over-complicate in front of goal, with some back-heel flick rather than a sidefoot to finish.We were already winning 3-0, but that wasn't the point. 'What the hell are you playing at?' I said. 'That's not what we do here.' My patience was wearing thin, as was the other players'. It wasn't that we wanted him out of the team or the club. It was just: 'When will he learn? When he's going to pick up the English game?' But the experience of Sir Alex Ferguson meant he never lost patience. He always went with him.

And then I remember when he came back from the 2006 World Cup after all that controversy with the Wayne Rooney red card. He walked into the dressing room and I thought: 'Jeez, what has happened to him over the summer?' When he had come to the club he was this thin, wiry boy. Now he was a light-heavyweight. He'd been on the weights over the summer and it was like watching someone grow up in a matter of weeks. And what ensued for the next two years was astonishing. I can't believe anyone has ever seen anything as extraordinary in the Premier League. I know we have had Thierry Henry, Eric Cantona and Gianfranco Zola - and perhaps Henry in his prime came closest - but for two years this was a player on another planet, the best in the world. He would prey on the weak. He is an absolute bully, as Maicon found out for Manchester City in the Bernabeu this season.

He sniffs blood, he will find the weakness in the back four. If he's not getting the left-back in the first 15 minutes, he'll switch to the right-back. If he's not getting the right-back, he'll switch to the left centre-back. He'll find someone in your back four who is weak and doesn't like defending one on one and against pace and power. His skill, strength and speed were incredible. I had played with some great players in Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, David Beckham, Eric Cantona and Mark Hughes. Because of their longevity at the club, they may be ranked above Ronaldo as United greats. But no one was a good as Ronaldo in that two-year period. I was injured for the 2007-08 season when United won the Champions League, so was in the stands for many of the games. I remember thinking: 'How could it have been better watching George Best?' I never saw him play but I thought: 'If it was anything like this I understand why people are still talking about him.'

And no one is ever telling me he isn't brave, by the way. No one's telling me he's soft. He wouldn't hide in games even though he knew that the first thing every team wanted to do was to leave one on him. Yes, he went down too easily at times, especially in his early years. But if he had a 14st centre-half bearing down and about to take his knees out, he was told by us and the manager: 'Stay away from those challenges.' We didn't want him injured. Look at the headed goal he scored at Roma in 2008. He was laid out by the defence as he attacked the ball. You don't score a header like that unless you're brave. That was in the mould of Frank Stapleton, Joe Jordan, Andy Gray or Mick Harford.

He's not some soft flaky character, he's a hardened player. It got to the point that as right-back in that 2006-07 season I never complained if he could go off for 30 minutes and leave me two on one. He completely changed my opinions about the game. I'd always been taught that I must have a right winger in front of me. But I knew he'd go and win us the match. Darren Fletcher would say that we'd have to work around him, because he'd always do more harm than opposing players he was leaving free to go forward. As a 27-year-old at the time, an experienced figure, I was expecting to tell this 21-year-old how it was. And he was telling me something completely different. I'd been playing with my blinkers on for years but he made me open my eyes to different ways of playing the game.

I'll never forget coming in training one day when the session was eight hard runs but, for the last two, he seemed to be taking it easy. He simply said: 'Too much water kills the plant.' Even today I remember those words. I'd always been brought up to believe that every single minute of every day was a fight and that you had to battle continuously, even in training. But though he would work hard, he would train with efficiency. If there were eight runs and he'd done six well but felt that was enough, he'd do two at his own pace. He knew his own body. So who was the wise one? All the premeditated tactical theories I had learned about getting and staying in your shape, and tracking back with your runner, all the things that had been drummed into me, were thrown out over those two years because we had a player who could make up his own rules with the blessing of his team-mates.
He has helped to redefine the game by creating a new breed of flexible forward. In that 2008 team with Paul Scholes, Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs, Carlos Tevez, Nani and Ronaldo, the forward players could be anywhere in that front line.

You couldn't say before the game: 'I'm playing against him today'. It was a different way of playing and understanding modern football. He was always fascinated with becoming the best player in the world. He would have no concerns about telling us in the dressing room or the media that that was his goal. In England, that kind of ambition can be drummed out of you. The team ethic is so important, sometimes we stamp on such individualism. But he believed in the team ethic. He also believed that the team would be better if he was the world's best. You would always say individual honours aren't important, but Ronaldo was different. To him they were. He wanted the medals on his chest and he would get angry when either he or the team weren't performing to that level.

Again, he changed my thinking. He showed it is possible to accommodate that kind of individual ambition within a team and marry the two together.
To be able to leave United in his prime and still have his name sung by the fans tells you something. On Wednesday night, he will be at Manchester City, his first return to the city since leaving United. While he may receive the kind of stick reserved for former United players, everyone in that stadium, including me, will be thinking: 'I'm watching Cristiano Ronaldo tonight'. If you're a kid, it will be a reference point, something to talk about when you're older. But, to be honest, for anyone who appreciates football, it will be a privilege to watch one of the great players of all time.
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Just think:

Rafael-------Vidic-----Rio--------Evra

---Clev---Carrick/Fletch---Anderson---

Rooney--------RVP----------Ronaldo

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Oh Ronnie, I'd have him back in a heartbeat
 
we're going to make 50 million quid next year (or the year after) from chevrolet and come 2014 50+ million easy from nike.

We should be able to afford ronnie (and his monster wages) nqat.

let the club run 55-60% wage/turn over ratio (which is acceptable under ffp and financially sustainable if our main goal is actually being a football club and not a profit maximization exersize) and spend the stupid amounts of sponsor money on ronnie.
 
VoetbalWizard said:
we're going to make 50 million quid next year (or the year after) from chevrolet and come 2014 50+ million easy from nike.

We should be able to afford ronnie (and his monster wages) nqat.

let the club run 55-60% wage/turn over ratio (which is acceptable under ffp and financially sustainable if our main goal is actually being a football club and not a profit maximization exersize) and spend the stupid amounts of sponsor money on ronnie.
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We'll use all of the money to pay off debt.
 
For anyone who doubts how good Ronaldo is and how amazing it would be to have him back that Gary Neville article should be a reference.
 
I don't think anybody doubts that Ronaldo is the second best player in the world for 4 years running.
 
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