Sir Alex Ferguson has claimed that Cristiano Ronaldo was begging to leave Manchester United last summer but that there is the possibility of him one day returning.
“His best is yet to come because he is just 24,” Ferguson said. “I will be very proud when I see him at his best because we had a part to play in it. He came to the right club at the right part of his career. He could have gone to Real Madrid or Barcelona as a boy but he came to the right club and he appreciates that. And he may come back, you never know. I don’t see it happening if things go wrong at Real Madrid necessarily, but he loved Manchester United so it may happen. He loved the club. If you look at the six years he had with us, he never missed training and he was never injured. He always played. He was fantastic. It wasn’t easy to see him leave. I had a good chat with the boy about it but he had made up his mind. Last year he was begging me to let him go but this year it was a sensible discussion.”
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good interview from nani
he wont be back, but things wont be great in spain
quite simply he won’t be aloud to miss as many free kicks… when he has a few bad games the handkerchiefs will be out…. if he can scale the heights he reached at united good luck to him.. i hold out ho[pe he does come back to us… hopefully sooner than later.. loved watching him, he’shandle himself really well since getting his way and he is pure class!
I said it on another post spanish football is to slow for him real seem to be one step behind him this may change but I think the tempo of the premiership suited his game so well!
I have great hopes that he will do a Robbie Keane on on Madrid…
Took RM 86 minutes to score their only goal against Shamrock Rovers today, and SR had several good enough chances to score that any of a few dozen strikers in la liga would’ve had no problem getting into the net. They haven’t had that much training together yet and la liga doesn’t start for over a month, but still, Shamrock Rovers.
personally, i hope he wins everythin with madrid ( bar the european cup as united need to win it 4 times on the trot) and comes back.
i ain’t forgot how far behind chelsea we were and how much he contributed to bringin us back and Moscow. If he came back and did it again then he would go down as a proper legend
I don’t see Ronaldo ever coming back. The wages he is on right now; it would be beyond any sensible club to pay a player that much. I just don’t see him being very successful at Madrid. There isn’t a lot wrong with their team, but lots wrong with how that shambles of a club is run. Also as someone mentioned before, the white handkerchiefs never help. Ronaldo can be very frustrating and he needed a lot of love and patience from his teammates, manager AND fans to get where he did. He won’t get that at Madrid. No club’s fans ever supports their players as much as we did Ronaldo. We all know how much he sulks when he is frustrated and I can see it all going badly for him. It’s a shame. He did so much for us, I want him to be happy at Madrid.
I dont think Ronaldo loves united. I think he only loves Ronaldo. Thanks for the memories (and the money) but hes gone now so fuck him. His plan was always to become the best player in the world. We gave him the stage to achieve this. We were just a stepping stone. When he contributed to Rooney’s sending off in the world cup i told a friend that i never wanted to see the cunt in a united shirt again. Something this friend reminds me about often. I admit this statement may of been a little hasty but it was 3 years ago when all Ronaldo had shown us was lots of flash and no finish. I am grateful to Ronaldo for what he did for the club but true legends dont leave. Anyway he has gone now so lets look forward.
i dont see him ever coming back nor do i wish it. i agree he wont be too succesful at madrid but maybe still get personal acalaides. he def wont get the love, nurture and support he got at OT from SAF, team mates, fans etc so i wonder how that will pan out? i wernt at first, but im pretty happy with owens arrival, i think him n wazza will be fucking unreal working together!! RED ARMY!!!
Bonfire — I am a gigantic fan of Wayne’s and love his temper and attitude, and I have often called Ronaldo a pussy, but, how did he contribute to getting Wayne sent off? Wayne was sent off rightly for stomping on a mans genitals. That shit ain’t right dude. Club teammates be damned, they were representing their nations and Ronaldo had just seen his adversary stomp on his then teammates nuts, intentionally. I dare say most men/football players on earth would react to that in the same manner. And Wayne had already been given his marching orders when Ronaldo gave the infamous wink.
Looks like Benz stole his thunder on their debut. LOL
Drew- When the ref was walking towards Rooney and everyone knew he was going to show a card. Why did Ronaldo say anything. You can tell by Rooney’s reaction that he wasn’t pleading for lieniency. I know if it was the other way round Rooney wouldn’t do that to a club mate. I know they were playing for there nations but Rooney plays for my nation. I always get a bit emotional when England are knocked out of a tournament and that was just a drunken statement made at the time. Ronaldo had 2 amazing seasons i grew to love him like everyone else. But now hes gone and to wish him well is to wish Real Madrid well and im not going to do that.
DIEGO FORLAN….People who dun follow LA LIga,remember the name DIEGO FORLAN….Because he was a flop turn top scorer in spain..SO why would u think ronaldo will flop?If diego can make it so can CR9…
Buildabonfire68,i disagree..True legend dun leave than Mr shearer is a true legend than for rejecting united’s offer???Its modern football get over with,the purpose we had ronaldo was to mainly entertain us..But he took another step futher by becoming the world’s best player..When the premier league starts,u will come to realize u will missed the moment when ronaldo will do something out of nothing into something amazing..
And Buildabonfire68, United>englund…..
Ronaldo plays for himself first and his team second.
The only reason Ronnie would come back was if ferguson was still here and he will won’t be here forever
‘he will won’t be here forever’ what the fuck?!
I meant he won’t be here forever!
@monkeytennis
That is the only thing i m worried abt for united.Wish SAF was immortal.He is one in a 100 years.True class act.people forget that we did nt buy sucess bt he made players like giggsy,scholesy,becks,neville,ronaldo and made shrewd signings like cantona,baby faced assasin,keane and many more.
he is the mainreason i feel we will wina 19th league title.seen it and done that before
all hail SAF.A living legend as franz beckenbaur described him.
Although ronnie didn’t score a goal against shamrock, he still played well.He created opportunity and caused defenders trouble the whole time he was on.
People will always put him down when he doesnt peform on a world class level in every game.But this is the standard he has set for himself…
Ronnie comming back to United? Fuck yes!
But for now, lets win the Prem and CL without him…
Some great comments by Ronaldo of late. Last night when asked which is the biger club, United or Real, he refused to get drawn in and changed the answer to reflect a different question.
The guy wont return to United as a player, but he might end up with a future role to play even if its just in the marketing areas.
no, he doesn’t love united as much as he loves real madrid. with the wages he’s getting now, why on earth would he want to leave? why would we want a player to come back to the club who “begged” fergie to let him go. it just isn’t right. he wouldn’t be the same player he was anyway if he comes back after 5 years or something.
by the way, how was he playing against shamrock rovers yesterday? i don’t know because i don’t ever watch that joke of a team.
fze123
Mate, he may love real more but i m sure he loves united equally.
it depends whether u believe him wen he Says he wants to be near his home in Madiera.
but the bottomline is however selfish a person can be,he will never go against the person who made him. we have made him and he has repaid us with silverware and a record fee.infact he showed his unsefish nature in last 3 years
@aig alex is god,
I agree totally.I was born in 1985; raised a Red. To me(and im sure many) Alex Ferguson is United…It scares me to think about him leaving.
sorry i meant he loves real more now bcoz he plays for them but he will like united too bcoz that is what made him what he is today
aig alex is god,
ronaldo liking united because it’s what has made him today won’t lure him back. my point was that he wouldn’t want to come back now, because he’s at the club he’s always wanted to play in, with great wages too. of course he loves united, why shouldn’t he, but he just loves madrid more, really.
great interview in full.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1200994/Manchester-United-boss-Sir-Alex-Ferguson-speaks-Carlos-Tevez-Cristiano-Ronaldo-Michael-Owen-Manchester-City.html
fze123
i agree wid u on nt cming back.he wont come back and i m sure of it.for 2 reasons
1. he has peaked in his career and we have got the best years out of him.
2.wen he leaves that bernebau circus he will be older and nowhere near united class.
But if he leaves where will he go?maybe sporting Lisbon
Buildabonfire68:So Sir Bobby is not a legend?
And also,
United>Ingurland
afromanc – I don’t know what game you were watching mate but Ronaldo was shite.
Bulidabonfire – Fuck England mate and the sending off. You could see the first game back for United Rooney didn’t have a problem with Ronnie. Fuck them. United > Ingerlund.
@aig alex is god
you prob right about him peaking his prime. lets face it the man is brilliant but as every other player that wont last forever and eventually he wont be madrid class or united class. its your typical beckham story of united to real then after his prime to la galaxy now he wants to come back to prem league? one starts to wonder why the Fuck they leave in the first place. who knows where ronnie might land up. but for now i wouldn’t welcome him back to OT. think mechada can fill that spot!
Dont forget, If he does leave Madrid it will either be:
1- Contract expired, He’ll be 30!
2- A huge wad of cash
will never happen ……….
@devilz88
Different leagues suit different players. Forlan could have done better in England had he been given more of a chance but i’m not sure he would have ever been ‘great’ in England as the league was just too quick for his style. Spain which is slower suits him perfectly.
With Ronaldo the Spanish league may be a little slow and careful to suit him. Especially as Spanish teams often like to play fairly narrow with lots of quick and short passing with the width being provided by full backs playing basically as wing backs. I’m not sure this will suit Ronaldos play, he may adapt and we will have to see but if he is a success it will be a ‘different’ Ronaldo to the one that played for us imho
Ronaldo will do just fine but the question is: will TheVirus organize their team to funnel the ball to him ? The last two years at OT, he was the focus and the fulcrum of the attack so that Rooney, Berbatov, Giggs, and Scholes and other “world class players” were made to be subservient to him. Will Kaka, Benzema, and Raul accept the same situation ? Will the merry-go-round of managers at TheVirus subordinate his other stars to CR9 ? Or, will Ronaldo get “frustrated” by being one of the boys ?
Returning to OT – the door is open as long as SAF is in charge BUT Ronaldo would have to accept a HUGE drop in wages. His salary for TheVirus goes up and up and up and up and up so that by 2014 he will be earning something like thirty million quid = that’s right 30,000,000 ! I can’t see UTD matching that. He will be only thirty in 2014 but he might have priced himself out of the game !
I doubt Ronaldo will ever return but it’s nice to see Sir Alex has left the door open. To be honest more then Ronaldo, more then Rooney, more then anyone else at the club I really dread the day that Sir Alex finally calls it a day. I’m just not sure who if anyone can fill his shoes and the day Sir Alex retires the club will have it’s biggest headache.
Hope it doesn’t happen for the next ten years, but that might just be wishful thinking.
devilz88 you are an idioit!
Buildabonfire68 is perfectly correct.
Ronaldo has gone, hes now an enemy – stop being such a bunch of pussies