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.”
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.