After winning the league with United in 2007, Gabriel Heinze claimed he was very happy at the club.
“I’m very comfortable in Manchester,” he said. “I’ve been a champion, captain and the fans love me. Everything is perfect.”
Yet a month or so later, Heinze was publicly declaring that he wanted out, committing a mortal sin, in insisting that Liverpool FC was his desired destination. There was no way Sir Alex Ferguson would have that, turning down any bid from the dippers, before finally accepting a bid and making a profit from Real Madrid.
Fergie has his own theories behind this sale and these were revealed in the press.
“When we sold Heinze to Real Madrid, we knew what was going to happen, because Ronaldo was very close to him,” he said. “I knew what they were doing. I don’t believe they were interested in Heinze — good player though he is. The end-game was to get Ronaldo.”
Less than 24 hours later, Heinze has got wind of these claims and has responded angrily.
“This theory of Ferguson about me going to Real in order to persuade Cristiano to come the following summer is a work of absolute fiction,” said Heinze. “I am a very good friend of Cristiano Ronaldo. This is true, but he always decides his own future. Cristiano is a clever person and he decides himself what is best for his own life. If he asks me a question about Real then, of course, I will answer, but I’m not a bad influence on him.”
Heinze then turned on his former boss, claiming he couldn’t be silenced any more as he was no longer a United player.
“Ferguson has spoken about me in the last months and I don’t understand this,” he added. “I thought he had forgotten me. He’s the boss at United and any person who protests about anything is marginalised. This was my problem at times when I was there. Ferguson cannot stop my quotes because I’m not now at United. I’m actually convinced Cristiano would offer Madrid even bigger performances than he has at United. That is my opinion and it is normal that I have wanted him to come and play with us here in La Liga.”
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just shut the f**k up heinze…have a good retirement in madrid
Shut up Judas
He completely contradicted himself,
he said he did nothing to persuade ronaldo to want to leave, yet he says he would be a better player at madrid, so how do we know he hasn’t told ronaldo that?
Heinze was loved by the fans but in the end proved to be nothing but a thick, judas idiotic prat, who was a Liverpool FC lover in disguise. Fuck him
sounds like a wannabe-dipper already
Gabriel Heinze was a scouser in disguise,
Oh that Heinze was a scouser in disguise,
But Fergie said to him no more,
And showed the greedy c*nt the door,
Coz he was just a filthy Scouser in disguise…
hasn’t been sung since last season but might try and get it going at tomorrows game
What a sad little prat Heinze turned out to be.
You do not need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that he was being used by Real “Franco’s” Madrid to turn Ronaldo’s head. If Ronaldo had any decency in him, he would have clarified everything with Fergie before joining his national team for Euro 08 and not let that circus go around for so long.
I always felt we should have taken the money and let the bastard go and flop in Madrid. I doubt that he would get the same support that he gets at United. It appears that half of Real’s players never wanted him there anyway. Nevertheless we should soon try to find a replacement for him as it is clear that he is going to buy out his contract in two years time.
Calderon is not giving up on him. His recent statements are only a smokescreen. He knows that for the next two years he can do absolutely nothing about Ronaldo unless United decide to sell, hence his ‘wise’ words.
xyth, Nobody cares what you thought.
Fergie made a decision so stop acting like you know better and living in the past
my blood boils whenever I read the name Heinze or see his ugly prick shit face. What a sad bitter twisted loser. He carries himself like he’s sooo hard but couldn’t stomach a fight with Evra for first choice left back. He’s a a hot headed paceless useless defender. What an anal bead, i hate him soo much. A man void of any class or integrity, how is he Ronaldo’s best friend?
YSB!….
duudelove – how is he ronaldo’s best friend ? , you answered the question yourself – a man void of any class or integrity..well…birds of a feather then, arent they?
Heinze should talk, he wanted to move to Liverpool! It’s all just the Madrid bullshit wagon in full motion.
Got to agree That Heinze is nothing more than a pawn in the RM Ronnie saga, sad part is that he cant see it himself . We can not beat Madrid for sunshine but on the pitch we can take away that aura they want to protect, by meeting and beating them in the CL .
Its the only way to put a line under this.
Ah … bullshit.
He played half of Real Madrid’s games last year and was bought to share the place with the less experienced Marcelo, he wasn’t bought to “persuade” Ronaldo to follow him.
Fergie is right people. The whole reason why they bought Heinze wasn’t to start their dirty tactics on Ronaldo BUT part of it was. How else can you explain bidding eight million, when they knew a bid of six million was what we were talking about for a player who was injury prone and had an average season. They were desperate. They are sly, little fuckers and put nothing past them.
I can’t stand players that slag of Fergie as soon as they close the door behind them. This is the FIFTH time Heinze has said this and one of the reasons why RVN has lost a lot of my respect. Beckham to his credit has never bad mouthed Ferguson, so I still respect him a lot. When a player leaves, whenever they are asked about Fergie, it would be nice if they could just say ‘He is a great manager, I learnt a lot from him. I will never forget him.’ and leave it at that. Nothing nice to say and they can shut up/
Iv stopped buying Heinz ketchup….
And btw RVN loves United and probably regrets leaving…
When we won the 06/07 season and he heard it after a madrid match, he interrupted a beckham interview by jumping on becks and screaming United!….
RVN Red Legend…
FUCK HIM
A classic example at a little dog barking at a big one, be careful Heinze because in this case the big dog bites back. The one thing I agree with is that in the end it’s up to Ronaldo whether he wants to continue his career at United or move to Madrid. At this point his departure will probably be something we deal with every summer and will depend on how he and the team fare through the season. He hasn’t been as dominant yet and if this continues then that might be an impetus to move, but no sense thinking about this until June.
haha, Heinze bit the bullet here, Fergie obviously tried to wind him up and it worked.
JUDAS JUDAS JUDAS
he was secretly a dirty rat eater
heinze…YSB!
A flippin good player that we loved and adored truly madle deeply…until the bastard turned….when couldnt take the heat from left back pat…well fuck off you arse sticking out duck twaddling arms flailing twat.
Fucking Cunt…I hope he brakes his leg and gets crippled for life..
Shoulda kept his mouth shut the fuckin JUDAS
Who cares, we’ve got Evra…seriously since when Heinze left, has any fan while seeing Evra play actually thought, Heinze would have done that a lot better if he was still here?
spencer, are you on drugs? It’s not like if they bid slightly more than they usually would have it means they’ve got some masonic secret plan. The fact that they bid £8mil doesn’t confirm anything.
PeeJay – I don’t think anything is confirmed, but it is rather suspect.
We made a profit on him, despite him being a few years old and proving to be rather injury prone. It was obvious we were desperate to get rid, meaning the player would usually be sold cut-price, so to make money on him was rather surprising.
Fuck Off Heinze!
Scott the Red – Yeah, they paid over the odds but that just means they didn’t feel like bargaining, Chelsea have been paying over the odds for years and we did for Berbatov, doesn’t mean we have a secret plan or anything.