Real Madrid paid off David Beckham’s transfer fee in a matter of days through ‘Beckham 23′ shirt sales alone.
If they were to purchase Cristiano Ronaldo this summer, it would take them a bit longer to pay for him, given they would be forced to fork out at least three times what they paid for Becks, but they would get their soon enough.
Florentino Perez, who is hoping to secure Real Madrid presidency, recognises the financial advantages of certain players, but is also aware of the conflict Ronaldo would bring.
“There are specific footballers who can turn out to be very profitable, because of the commercial benefits they bring the club,” said Perez. “But if Cristiano Ronaldo comes in, we would have a Nike-endorsed player putting on an Adidas shirt every week. In the previous time, we established a model which allowed us to pay off our debts and raise our income, and we did it by investing in great players. They brought money in, the model worked. When Beckham arrived our sponsors significantly raised their payments to us and we rescued the finances of the club. What happened in the last few years is that the club did not reinvest in the type of players to continue with that model. I want to put that right.”
Man Utd News 24/7
If this is the case, i wonder why Ronaldo’s advisers allowed him to work with Nike.I thought that they wanted him to join Real.
But then,he was first at Nike-sponsored Sporting Lisbon before joining us.Maybe they offered him something like a package deal with Nike and the club,where if he signed with the club,he had to sign with Nike…
costas:Gerard Pique is the third player,not second like you said,to win 2 Champions Leagues in succession with 2 different clubs,along with Marcel Desailly and Paolo Sousa.No offence meant,I am just saying.
I just cant understand why the press keep making up stories about him leaving and real madrid always mentioning him .we said he is not for sale one million time why dont they go and fabricate stories about messi moving to city . I know ronaldo is fueling the rumors but it doesnt need a geniues to know that . Last summer we didnt even enjoy our double and looks like this summer we will endure the same but added to it the tevez saga and getting ripped because our CL loss apparently there is big changes that need to happen and we had a reality check how shite we are .its just like we havent won a trophy since 2003 . FUCK THEM
i guess Ron has yet to sign the new Nike deal. so if he joins Real he has to cancel the deal with Nike. hope this is the roadblock for the deal not to go through but looks unlikely
@boogeyman- i don’t think there is any sort of agreement with nike as such.
@Manchester United forever:Maybe not.But it’s possible because at 16,if they ask you to play football for a living and say they’ll give you extra money to wear Nike boots,coming from the background he did,you’d take it.I know I would.
@theboogeyman: You are right about Desailly.
Nike won’t let him break his contract with them, nor will Ronaldo or his advisors walk away from it as it will cost them too much. This has always be the sticking point of any transfer interest from Real, they talk big money but know they can’t afford to pay the sums they are talking about, that’s why they need Ronaldo to ask for a move, so they can reduce the price they pay.
I hope he dont leave,BUT, i was afraid last summer of the thought of he going to Madrid,NOW i am NOT.NO player is bigger than MUFC
I cannot believe that we are going to go to another summer of torture over ronaldo and tevez. we need to let him go, for the sum we want and start adding players. it needs to be about rooney next year! and a strong midfielder that can dominate again….
Talk about clutching at straws.. I somehow doubt that Nike will be the reason Ronny doesnt go to Real…
Never knew that Ronaldo had such a long neck…
He’s like a giraffe in this picture.
Tony Starks – “clutching at straws” ? There’s so very much money at stake in the Ronaldo-fest that we only know the tip of the iceberg. He gets something like 120,000 per week from UTD but, for him, that’s just his base-pay; he probably makes double or maybe even triple that from his other income streams and endorsements. And the NIKE connection is supposedly worth something like another Ten Million Dollars a year for him – and he’s supposedly going to be one of their two “faces”, along with Tiger Woods.
The kid is playing in the big leagues in terms of income so your suggesting that the NIKE connection is a minor issue is really naive. Like Beckham before him, the salary/wage from football is really only one of him income streams – and Beckham’s total worth is vast.
Ronaldo has the looks and the talent to do even better – perhaps he can become “the face” of TheVirus and Adidas, but perhaps not. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens over the next month or two – and from TheNextVirusPresident’s remarks, they’re not going to give up easily.
So, unless Ronaldo simply stops all the discussion with a flat-out “fuck you”, expect to hear about this ad nauseum. It’s called negotiations and it won’t end unless or until Ronaldo himself closes the door.
Reading between the lines, you can clearly see that Perez is hell bent on bringing back the Galactico era.
@NicoQB lol
The sad state of modern football.
from Ronaldo’s point of view, this is what he wants(unlike us, these guys retire by 34-35 yrs(even though what they make in a year is something that not many of us will see in a lifetime)) … the money coming in should keep on increasing … Nike will want to keep him, United obviously would want to keep him
he’s a selfish twat who fortunately is decent at the game of football
Fuzzy – I don’t think he’s “unselfish”, he’s just a mercenary like the majority of players in the EPL. Rio wasn’t born and bred in M/C; Rooney wasn’t either – nor was Vidic nor Carlitos nor Carrick nor Berbatov. Ronaldo’s only different to the degree that he can pick and choose what he wants – the others don’t have the same degree of freedom-to-choose their destination. Becks was a “true red” but the fields were greener elsewhere; Keane-o was the fucking captain but he left, too.