Cristiano Ronaldo

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shaggy said:
We should buy Ronaldo for £55 million, Bale for £40 million, and Wilshere for £30 million. To raise money, we sell Nani for £25 million, Young and Valencia for £15 million each, plus sadly let Hernandez go to Madrid for £25 mil.

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don't think this is ever going to happen but just this is just simply :drool::drool::drool:

we don't need to sell hernandez though. :)
 
Told you all when the last transfer window was over, this summers my muppet senses were on Ronaldo coming back.

Anyway here's the full story from the star
MANCHESTER UNITED are working on a stunning £55m deal to bring Cristiano Ronaldo back to Old Trafford.

United aim to piece together a complex financial package which will become the new model for big contracts in European football. Starsport understands the Ronaldo camp are looking at commercial ventures which would tie in with a Premier League return this summer.

United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has remained a huge influence on the Real Madrid star’s career and the 28-year-old is now ready to come back to the club where he became a global star.

Ronaldo believes he has not been given the respect he deserves in Spain, even in Madrid, because fans favour the brilliance of Lionel Messi ahead of him.

With his major ally at Real, boss Jose Mourinho, leaving at the end of the season, the Portugal star is now open to moving back to England.

Paris St Germain remain in the market, and the French club could step up their interest if they are the ones to give Mourinho his next job in management – but the north-west of England is the favoured destination for the player.

United sold Ronaldo to Madrid for £80m in 2009, but a defl ation in transfer fees since then mean the Spanish giants would have to do business for around £55m.

The big hurdle would be whether the Premier League leaders could offer a salary to rival the player’s current £220,000-a-week deal and stay within the new UEFA Financial Fair Play regulations, which come into force next season.

But there is a way round those rules which would see a player agree a salary with a side and then sign a separate endorsement package with the club’s sponsors. And it is exactly that model which is being considered at Old Trafford, with new club sponsors Chevrolet ready to make Ronaldo their global ambassador to help bring him back to Manchester.

Chevrolet’s parent company General Motors recognise the huge appeal Ronaldo can have in the US, and also in South America, with Brazil hosting the 2014 World Cup.

The only stumbling block is the £370m seven-year sponsorship deal is not due to start until 2014 – but Starsport understands talks are on-going to buy current backers Aon out of their deal a year early.

That would allow United to sign Ronaldo and GM to tie up an individual endorsement deal with the player to ease through one of the biggest transfers in history.
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I sense there's more credibility to him returning to United than some might believe. 55m would be a reasonable fee for him given that he's now 28, and Madrid's tendency to sell its players for far less than what they bought them for.
 
Oh hell yes. feck me, imagine a front 3 of Ronaldo, Roo and RVP, backed up by Kagawa/Nani, with Carrick and Clev holding the middle of the park. How scary is that!!! The goal potential of that is just mind blowing!

All for 55mil. No brainer!
 
With the way our wingers have been playing this season Ronaldo wouldn't simply walk into our first XI. Cristiano could stop for a full English on the way and still get there ahead of any of them. The man is a machine £55 million would be cheap. The only full back in England that may be able to stand up to Ronaldo is Ashely Cole (on a good day). If we get Ronaldo back we'll have the title sewn up next season by spring!
 
Now we need someone to give him a United shirt at the champions league presser.
 
Raoul said:
I sense there's more credibility to him returning to United than some might believe. 55m would be a reasonable fee for him given that he's now 28, and Madrid's tendency to sell its players for far less than what they bought them for.
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I agree. People who think he's worth more than £80m Real Madrid paid for him when he was much younger and equally good are out of their minds. I was in argument with someone who thought he'd cost £120m+ before.

£55m is just about fair for a 28-year old forward with two years left on his deal, just as £80m was fair for a 24-year old at this level.
 
#07 said:
With the way our wingers have been playing this season Ronaldo wouldn't simply walk into our first XI. Cristiano could stop for a full English on the way and still get there ahead of any of them. The man is a machine £55 million would be cheap. The only full back in England that may be able to stand up to Ronaldo is Ashely Cole (on a good day). If we get Ronaldo back we'll have the title sewn up next season by spring!
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Regardless of the 'form' of far, far, far inferior players - Ronaldo would walk into our starting XI.
 
Can't see it happening. But it would be amazing, price is fair enough as well. But let's say we were to go for him: then it would need to happen this summer - as I would like to get as many of his prime years as possible.
 
With it being the Daily Star that is reporting it...You could bet your house that there is not a shred of truth in this story
 
I hope OT give him a welcome when he returns with RM - that should settle it ;-)

Would love to see him back! We could put both Nani, DDG and Chicha in that deal for all I care!

Imagine this Ronaldo, Rooney and RVP on top!
 
thegreatdane said:
I hope OT give him a welcome when he returns with RM - that should settle it ;-)

Would love to see him back! We could put both Nani, DDG and Chicha in that deal for all I care!

Imagine this Ronaldo, Rooney and RVP on top!
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Steady now!

I'm aware that this could be tongue in cheek, but swapping a 28 year old for a keeper that will surely become one of the finest in Europe, a world class poacher in Hernandez and a top winger in Nani wouldn't be very wise IMO. Ronaldo or not.
 
Maybe it's just a fantasy but United should be always interested in players like Bale, Wilshere and especially Ronaldo... Footballers that will improve the squad.

I hope Ed Wood guy will support that kind of deals in the future.
 
If Maureen is leaving in the Summer and Real don't win the UCL this year, I think Ronaldo might take a look around the changing room and a look at the manager (whoever that might be) and think "Where is best for me to spend the last few years of my peak? Here with so much uncertainty or under Sir Alex at United?"

If he is craving that Ballon D'Or again, deep down he must know Ferguson is the man to help him get it.
 
Poxbo said:
If Maureen is leaving in the Summer and Real don't win the UCL this year, I think Ronaldo might take a look around the changing room and a look at the manager (whoever that might be) and think "Where is best for me to spend the last few years of my peak? Here with so much uncertainty or under Sir Alex at United?"

If he is craving that Ballon D'Or again, deep down he must know Ferguson is the man to help him get it.
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To be honest I don't think even Ferguson can help him win that again. Unless Messi is injured or something, Ronaldo is going to find it very hard to win it. Also you should note that Ronaldo is in his peek and will start his decline in 3 maybe 4 years but Messi is not at his peek and will be in his prime in 2 years.
 
And will Ronaldo be booed like Beckham was? He gets a standing ovation and then when the game begins and he touches the ball, will the boo boys come out?
 
thegreatdane said:
I hope OT give him a welcome when he returns with RM - that should settle it ;-)

Would love to see him back! We could put both Nani, DDG and Chicha in that deal for all I care!

Imagine this Ronaldo, Rooney and RVP on top!
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Oh for feck sake.
 
Hectic said:
Who cares? It would be incredible to have him back, it's a no-brainer if there's any possibility, which there probably isn't mind.
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Probably not, but for me, the thing that suggests its perhaps a possibility is the commercial side, hes a money making machine, even without the boost he would give the team on the pitch, hes arguably more marketable than messi , and thats something our board would take seriously.

I think he'll follow maureen to psg myself.
 
Spoony Kobayashi said:
Nah, he'll a probably be a spent force in a couple of years due to burn out.
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That's my worry too. He relies on physical side of his game a lot and it's bound to get worse in the next 3-4 years. I've been in this discussion before and a lot of people tried to convince me that he'd re-design himself but I'm not entirely sure about it. There's always a risk that he won't and in 3 years he may be half the player he currently is.

At £50m it could be worth the risk. At £100m+ quoted by some it'd take a club with unlimited funds to even consider it. Unlike most I think £80m was a fair price for Ronaldo in 2009 and I reckon slightly more than half that would be adequate now - £50m to £55m.

He's a great player but he left us at 24 and spent the peak years of his career at Real Madrid. We need to accept that he might not value United as much as we'd like to think, he bitched about a move abroad for like three years before we let him depart.
 
Seriously? I thought spoons was kidding.

You're worried about how effective he would be in 2-3 years time? Mental shit, I reckon he's still be one of the two best players in the world. He's just turned 28 this month, not 31.
 
I love Ronaldo but, I honestly wouldn't see the point in this. If we're going to spend 55 millions on Ronaldo, why not go for Gareth Bale instead? He's not as good, but he'll be 24 in the summer and has large development curve ahead of him.

Ronaldo gave us some great times, but we need to move on in my opinion.
 
Andrew~ said:
I love Ronaldo but, I honestly wouldn't see the point in this. If we're going to spend 55 millions on Ronaldo, why not go for Gareth Bale instead? He's not as good, but he'll be 24 in the summer and has large development curve ahead of him.

Ronaldo gave us some great times, but we need to move on in my opinion.
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Gareth Bale in his peak will still be nowehere close to Ronaldo who at 4/5 years older will be past his best.

A 29 year old Ronaldo will be better than a 24/25 year old Bale in my book.
 
Heardy said:
Gareth Bale in his peak will still be nowehere close to Ronaldo who at 4/5 years older will be past his best.

A 29 year old Ronaldo will be better than a 24/25 year old Bale in my book.
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I agree completely, but I just think Bale would be a better 'investment', if that makes sense. Bale is a damn good player himself to be fair, and could potentially reach those levels if handled the right way (hence the interest from the likes of United and Madrid).
 
Hectic said:
Seriously? I thought spoons was kidding.

You're worried about how effective he would be in 2-3 years time? Mental shit, I reckon he's still be one of the two best players in the world. He's just turned 28 this month, not 31.
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He's got a debilitating ankle injury, hasn't he? Henry was 29 when he went from being superhuman to just being a good forward - 134 goals in 4 seasons when he was 24-28, 61 goals in 4 seasons at 28-32. He's certainly more likely to go the Henry route of simply being a lesser version of himself rather than going down the Bergkamp route of adapting his game to prolong his career, IMO.
 
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