Cristiano Ronaldo became the fourth United player to be named the European Player of the Year, after Denis Law, Sir Bobby Charlton and George Best were awarded with the title in the 60′s.
Charlton has reflected on the decision to sell Ronaldo, showing he has no bad feelings towards the player, and putting his full faith in Sir Alex Ferguson to make the right decision.
“Ronaldo leaves us because as a young boy he always dreamt about playing for Real Madrid, so if he leaves us it is with our blessing,” said Charlton. “We are very grateful that he has scored goals, that he has played well, that he’s contributed to the fame of Manchester United.”
Our legend, who is from a different age of football, is shocked by the amount of money spent, but understands we have to think from a business perspective these days.
“It is an enormous amount of money and it sometimes seems a little bit vulgar,” he continued. “But nevertheless that is business, I am afraid. We have responsibilities as a company. It’s a lot of money. It seems crazy really, but the more the money the players cost, the more the television companies appear to be able to contribute that little bit more too.”
Some have questioned whether United can go on to be successful without Ronaldo, but Charlton insists that the manager knows what he is doing.
“It is a little bit of soul searching,” he added. “You wonder if you made the right decision. We shall never know until the season starts. Alex Ferguson is a great judge of the player. He is very brave, he’s very brave with his decisions, he’s very decisive with his decisions, and that is why he’s been a major success.”
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“Alex Ferguson is a great judge of the player. He is very brave, he’s very brave with his decisions, he’s very decisive with his decisions, and that is why he’s been a major success.”
How very true!
My take on Ronaldo is simple really, yes he is a very dislikable person, he is arrogant selfish BUT he has never hidden the fact that he wanted to sign for Real Madrid as he was always a “Real Fan” so getting on his back and slating him is pointless.
I for one was never going to get excited about going to his testimonial and always expected him to leave this summer, Fergie probably said give us one more season and you can go with blessing.
One player who everyone seems to still respect and who I dislike immensely is David Beckham an equally arrogant selfish person, just ask LA Galaxy, he is also a self proclaimed “United fan” but like Tevez to degree played the fans off against the club, he left simply for the money and the glamour oh and his wife probably told him to.
At least Ronaldo had the balls to admit he was a fan of Real and wanted to play for them, and it is understandable he is not English and has never professed his undieing love for the club.
With Beckham he was constantly saying he is a life long United fan and yes he had his falling out with Fergie, but he was never man enough to come out and say why he left, but that’s Sir David for you he never has to justify himself at least not to the supporters who buy tickets, his addidas boots, aftershave, pants ect…………………… what does he care how we feel as long as we line his pockets.
Have always asked those narrow minded ROnaldo haters this:
What if it was YOU who played for REAL MADRID since the age of 18 and then THE boyhood club of your dreams MANCHESTER UNITED offered you to play for them, even though they wernt as strong as when you supported them as a child (Finishing second in the PL).
Your current club got loadsa money and were willing to consider it
Your Dream club wanted to buy you as a their player
Youd won everything with your current club
What would you do?
Ah yeah, stay at Real Madrid of course…
Im more worried when sir alex retires how the hell do you replace the greatest manager of all time. On ronny he was a great player 4 us but life goes on i hope he does well just not against us.
I hope he wins SFA and comes back with his tail between his legs – a more rounded individual. Ha! I can see it now, he’ll be just like Scholesy!
Stephen i think you have to judge Beckham before and after he met his wife.I have no doubt that he was a United fan growing up and in his early United career.Then his priorities changed.But to this day, i believe that he would have never left the club if SAF could deal with his lifestyle.In 2003,he never made noises to leave(hence the new contract he signed in 2002) because he didn’t want to leave.Not until he fell out with Sir Alex anyway.Lets not compare him to Tevez.
@mad4it – good way of putting it mate.
Lets get this deal done now and move on. (Yawn!)
amen to that !
united always go on no matter who comes or goes but i cant say i wont miss ronny viva Ronaldooooo
Sir Bobby Charlton is a class apart. A Legend, a man of pure dignity, summed up with his refusal to wear a European Cup winners medal last season, as he felt he wasn’t involved. Unlike that cunt Kenyon who couldn’t wait to get his mucky mitts on that runners-up shield.
i think its becoming apparant over the last several days ronaldos “dream” to play for real madrid is all about money the greedy bastard is going to earn 200k a week and 50% of all image rights but he’s holding out for a extra 5% by the end of his contract he’ll be making a estmated 1mill a week.f**k all the bollocks about “the dream” its all about the greed
Good luck to Winker. He was a great player for us, but if what I read is correct, his greed knows no limit. £200k a week, 50% image rights, but he wants 55%. and all this will rise to £500k week over 5 years. And he WANTS to play for them.
I will tell you this now, his greed and self centeredness (!!) will be his downfall.
Cheers winker, you narcisstic bastard.
If he could shag himself, he would.
You know. I agree with the if you were a united fan as a kid, played for real, then united came in, I would be gone in a shot. But I think I could settle for £200k a week plus 50% image rights. Yeah, I know, we would all play for free etc, etc. Fuck, £100k a week would see me right.
twat.
Mad4it,
No one is arguing Ronaldo’s reasons for leaving but where were Madrid when we signed him from Sporting ? Would any of Real Madrid’s SEVERAL managers have had Ferguson’s faith to indulge him even when he was only a raw talent ? Without United Ronaldo would be nothing, so his behaviour last summer was unforgivable whether he was a boyhood fan of the Fascists or not. Oh yeah and the guy is a preening arrogant prat.
Irish Devil.
You have a good point. If Virus had signed him as an 18 year old, he would have gone the same way as Robhino and Eto’o.
Hell, even little micky owen was good there, but he wasnt called Raul.
Image rights? It must be BS.
He didn’t give any interview. His agent officially made a statement that all comments made by him are FALSE.
http://www.gestifute.com/gestifute/noticia.php?noticia_id=785
fabio the reason the deal hasn’t been done yet is because he’s holding out for 55% instead of the 50% real madrid want to give him
Used to be a massive Ronaldo supporter, defending his shite because he did great things for the club.
Now all that doesn’t matter as he turns his back on us.
Ronaldo can fxck off.
Ronaldo=Greedy Bastard is holding out for 55% of his image right earnings yet Madrid is his dream club!!
he’s definately leaving with my blessing thats for sure!
only two downsides to this 1. lost a fantastic player (if selfish and greedy)
2. no more ‘viva ronaldo’ only that shower of shit replacement of ‘viva john terry’ (please lets drop that, why sing about that racist cheating prick!)
i suggest we replace ‘viva ronaldo’ with ‘viva wayne rooney’ something like – viva wayne rooney
viva wayne rooney
hes won the european cup
he’s gonna f**k you up
viva wayne rooney
or something to that effect
this article hits a great point – SAF has always managed to put his cock on the block for what he beleives is the correct decision, and that is a trait that deserves respect from anyone – just one of the millions of reasons the FSW isn’t fit to lace his boots.
You have got to think though – why are Real offering all this stupid money, when Ronny is making out like he would play for them for free, because he loves them so much? Really, It’s a very poor piece of business for Real, because Ronny doesn’t need all that money to keep him at the club he loves!!
What a load of crap.
We need Pete Boyle to get a song for next season but “Viva United”.
Whoa!!! So people are calling him greedy???
What if Real had offered only 20m for Ronaldo and we rejected the offer because we want atleast 70-80m for Ronaldo?
Would you call our club greedy?
If at all Ronaldo is asking for 55%, its because he is worth it.
And people who say, “I would happily take 100k per week and 50% share” are simply lying and probably they haven’t ever seen this much money in their whole goddamn life!
It’s lottery figures.
If I won £100K on the lottery, I would pay my mortgage and be set for life.
I am not sticking up for anyone on £200K a week, or even £70K a week.
That cunt Cashley Cole, nearly crashed when “only” offered £70k (or whatever).
Fuck!!!
Cant blame the players for taking what they can. Thats Winkers dream club.
Greed, self loving ponce. He can fuck off. gay ponce.
Costas, he me her when he was 21.
Shit, I WOULD pay £70K for a night with cashleys mrs, and he goes off with a minger of an hairdresser, and she sticks with him.
There is nooooooooooooo justice in this world my friends, none!!!!!!
I think better for united sell now rather than wait until his final year in his contract. then united got nothing. all in all this is the best decision for the club in football and business term.
SAF rather rebuild the team now rather than leave the united in disarray in 2 years time.
kaihnsn, true words, I agree.
@Stephen:Yes he did.That’s why i said “early United career. But to be fair, Beckham still had his head in the game for 3-4 years after that. It was after the Treble that he let the glamorous lifstyle get to him.So it was unfait to pin the blame for all this only on his wife.
@AndyCR7: I have heard of players leaving the club that owed the money with no demands to get it, simply to join their dream club. And Ronaldo is bulking at joining his “dream club” because he wants 55 instead of 50 %?And no, United would not have been greedy.If Kaka is worth 56, Ronalo on current form is worth 1.5 times as much.
She certianly footballing wise was a bad influence mate, fiancially she probably was the best thing that happened to him.
Of course she was Stephen.But i still believe that in 2003 it was more a case of Sir Alex reaching his breaking point with the whole deal, than it was of Beckham wanting out.What’s done is done and i guess that many United fans will always feel a certain amount of bitterness for him.I just don’t think he falls into the Tevez category,even though he made that idiotic remark about returnig to United only if Fergie left. Time has healed the wounds i feel.
I agree Costas matey, he will never be a Heinze, Carlos ect.
Trying to get the best deal possible doesn’t make Ronaldo greedy imho.
Its kind of like the Rio situation with us a few years back. It wasn’t that he wanted to leave it was that he just wanted to make sure he got the best deal possible. You get the odd player like Scholes who really doesn’t care but I’m sure even the likes of Gary Neville try and get as every penny they can. Its also probably more the agents insistence rather than him. I’m sure if real play hard ball he will sign for 50%
Mind you it could be a sign of some internal conflict in Ronaldo. Alot of what he has said over the last couple of years has shown hints of a heart vs head battle. His heart saying go to Real and his head saying United where hes best off. Perhaps his heads now telling him if he wants to take the risk to follow his heart he needs to be the one making money off his back and not Real making all the money
@Stephen:I agree with you.It’s not like he doesn’t love the club.It’s just that his wife dominates him or he loves money more.That aside,did you see his face during the semi-final at the Emirates??
@wakey:TheNeviller took a pay cut so as to remain at the club for longer.
Wakey, surely it is his agent making the demands not the player, the Greasy one wants to sign for the Hun, but his agent is just doing his job, getting the best deal.
Not sure if I did mate, the issue with Beckham is that the club and Fergie have been made out as villians of the piece, when really he had no intention of signing a new contract he simply wanted to go, and that is his choice but be man enough to say it.
Stephen he was rubbing his hands in satisfaction after we went 3-0 in front.Of course these gestures always happen in front of the camera,so i am not going to take it very seriously.As far as the contract is concerned, didn’t he sign one in May of 02?It definitely took a while to get it done,but so did Rio’s in 05.It’s common practice nowdays.
True.In a way it’s good actually,without selling Beckham we wouldn’t have got Ronaldo.
It got me thinking and I realised that the last 3 number 7′s we’ve had have been quite good value for money(I’m not going further than that because King Eric was signed 2 years before my birth,so..),ie,
King Eric:1.2 million pounds.Profit:Nothing money-wise,but…
David Beckham:Academy made player.Profit:25 million pounds.
Cristiano Ronaldo:Signed for 12.25 million.Profit:68 million pounds.
Not bad,I say.Just hope the next number 7 lives up to the rep.
I agree but at least Rio signed it, obviously at the time we were less that happy with Rio and he will never be that popular with the fans because of it.
But Beckham signed it too.I remember the announcement before the Charlton game in May of 02.Not that contracts mean much these days.
Contracts mean absolutly nothing Costas, and as I remember it he didn’t sign the contract ehre were issues with his image rights.
let ronaldo go as he is no longer intend to stay at unt…
SAf must b careful in buying players bcoz utd now really really need a player who must teriffy the other teams…he must possess an extra fear factor with him….united really need to freshen the midfireld as to buy players with midfield mind and long rangeshooting ….the players like wesley snieder , daniel derossi..
they also must find a player similar to ruud so a s to partner rooney like benzema or aguero.
they also must find a winger bcoz they cant afford to play nani and tosic in a same game….it can b resolved by having david silva , RVP , or….valencia (last option).
with the money in the bag they can easily find an yound dazzling player as a hot ******* reply to ronaldo…like costa 0r sanchez. they also will get adem lajjic.
utd must also b willing to offload the players like gibson,de la red,martin…in the form of loan or selling.
the other players utd can afford are robben,huntellar,maicon,ronaldinho,hleb,……etc
http://www.4thegame.com/club/manchester-united-fc/news/101900/BECKHAM+SIGNS+NEW+UNITED+DEAL.html
He did sign, but now that i remember it, the negotiations did get messy.Especially over the image rights.
I stand corrected Costas, I must be getting overly bitter in my old age!
Ps Bobby Charlton is a total United and footballing legend, a true gentleman also and the only person that I can think of with a sweep over in World and the first thing that crosses my mind are the goals and not that wonderful comb over.
Can anyone send me a link to an interview where Carlos Tevez has said this about Sir Alex or anything else disrespectful because i have honestly never heard him say anything the only paper i read is the Manchester Evening News as it talks the least drivel so ive really not heard much from carlos since his interview live on tv on the Old Trafford pitch.
It’s ok.I forgot about it too.I also forgot that on that day we celebrated that more than Denis Irwin’s(who retired on that day) career.By the way,in 2005 even Giggs stalled contract negotiations for a while(although it wasn’t an economic issue.He wanted a 2 year deal and as part of the club policy for players over 30,we offered him a one year extension).
You are right about Sir Bobby.Sometimes i wish that i did live in an older era to watch players committed as him.
Off topic – http://goal.com/en/news/9/england/2009/06/18/1332381/harry-redknapp-worries-for-manchester-united-post-cristiano/comments?page=2&sort=newest
You should concentrate on your own team of flops you cockney cunt.
Stephen and Costas – Spot on about Sir Bobby, such a difference to a lot of today’s “stars”. The man is class.
Red Manc – No as far as I know mate there has been absolutely no quotes. It is his behaviour , in particular against Arsenal that does not sit well with alot of United fans.
anyone watch u21′s fraizer has just scored against spain, just wondered how he played. the lad had shit loeads of potential would av liked to see him stay
@theboogeyman Yes he took a paycut with the latest deal but you get bet him and his agent got as much money as they could from the deal. And also eeked out every last penny from every other deal he has had before the latest one
Other News: Sky Sports sources claim Carlitos has ruled out a move to the dippers. Please let that be true, anywhere but them.
thank god for that. Still hope he signs to be honest as i dont believe any of the media BS about stuff he’s said.
Just found this on the sky sports news website “Carlos Tevez has ruled out a summer move to Liverpool, Sky Sports News sources have learned. “
Vidic @ 21:21 – Good point; Frazier Campbell has played well whenever he’s been given an opportunity to show his stuff. I think that for six million, Hull are getting a steal when you consider that he’s just 21 and has plenty of upside.
Actually, I wouldn’t sell Cambpell to Hull unless he can’t be used as a “makeweight” in the Wigan deal for Valencia, which looks like a dead-cert. But, I suppose that Wigan don’t want to pay the “english premium” since most of their recent signings have been from Honduras, Ecuador, Egypt or Colombia. Still, when you consider that Sylvan Eubanks-Blake was essentially given away – one million quid and he scored 25 last year – the price for Campbell looks a bit “bottomy” to use David Gill’s version of the English language.
Why hasn’t the Campbell deal with Hull been finalized ? – because, I think, the money from TheVirus hasn’t cleared the bank. These transactions must be interconnected along with the in-coming of Valencia and – fingers crossed – Benzema and Douglas Costa, which would make Campbell surplus-to-requirements.
just wondering, do we really need to sell campbell, when we still havent got the best put of berba? if we do sell campbell, we will seriously shortage of goal poacher in united. all the burden will be on rooney alone. back in the days, we can still rely on scholesy to score goals, but nowadays, even scholesy cannot buy a goal on constant basis. just look what we could probably miss in giuseppe rossi and even ebanks blake. these are good players. maybe its time to give chances, though limited to young players such as kiko and welbeck to play alongside seasoned pros such as rooney to develop themselves.
take back rossi..anyone??
taking back rossi would be a complete waste of time. He’s a great lad and he does well in spain but the english league is a completely different matter and he wouldnt play week in week out so why waste a talent, he should stay playing well in spain.
Macheda/Welbeck are the strikers of the future at United. just because a player scores a goal it doesnt make them worthy of a place in our team his all round play, first touch, vision, pace is obviously not up to standard if Sir Alex isnt arsed about letting him go.
Nice to see that Carlitos remains humble:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2489711/Greedy-Carlos.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=Football
Did anyone know that Liverpool had put up Johnson shirts for sale?
Retards.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/early-doors/article/176651/
@Costas:He deserves it,doesn’t he?5 league goals.That’s just…wow.
Ta-ra,Carlos!
If Liverpool spend 18 million on him, then that’s a huge waste of their limited budget.Do they have a striker aside from Torres.
Boogeyman,that’s what Tevez is all about.So for him,the answer toi being mistreated is to become the highest payed player.City better prepare their 32 shirt.A greedy one is on the way.
agreed. but then i felt that maybe gaffer should give more chance to rossi. his stint in newcastle certainly a failure since roeder doenst play him that much. and in parma as well. so i was hoping back then that he will have a handful of games as we all know that his stats in reserve games is astounding as what happens now with kiko and welbeck,or maybe better in some aspects.
@Costas: You said “.If Kaka is worth 56, Ronaldo on current form is worth 1.5 times as much”.
Then by that logic if Kaka is getting 50% share in image rights etc, then Ronaldo should get 70-80% share.
All we did by selling Ronaldo for huge 80m is a business and All Ronaldo is doing is also a business. I won’t call him greedy.
http://manunitedyouth.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/video-super-campbell-fires-england-into-the-last-four/
Fucking keep him!!!!!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that was a very nicely taken goal!
He isn’t Hull bound yet – he still hasn’t agreed to personal terms. I do rate tha lad!
The question isn’t can United do well without Ronaldo, it’s whether Ronaldo can do well without United.
Real will undoubtedly have a talented squad, but will it be big enough to accommodate Ronaldo’s ego? And for all their big spending looks like they still don’t have a decent defence.
Personally, I’ll still support Barca and hope Real keep losing titles, championships, cups, friendlies…fucking whatever.
@AndyCR7:
I didn’t talk about the image rights on purpose.I was saying that footalling wise,Ronaldo is currently 1.5 times better than Kaka.I can’t compare them from a marketing standpoint,which is what this image rights deal is about.Personally,i think that 50% was a good amount for both parties because both the club and the player make him marketable.I find Ronaldo greedy in this ordeal,because if i finally went to my dream club,i would sign the contract(which is big enough already) with my eyes closed.