Real Madrid’s sports director, Pedja Mijatovic, has conceded defeat where Cristiano Ronaldo is concerned, admitting that our winger never showed much commitment to securing a deal with the Spanish club.
That’s what felt so good about the transfer saga this summer, knowing that we’d won. Sir Alex Ferguson had said since day one that there was no chance of Ronaldo leaving, yet Real Madrid carried on pushing, Ramon Calderon clearly certain that he would get his man.
Other clubs try to same approach, but you get a feeling it’s only to bump up the transfer fee. Most clubs have a price for any of their players, but I’m so proud of our club for fighting this to the end and getting the right result.
If Ronaldo is to leave next summer, it will be on our terms, not because our hand has been forced. Whilst Calderon kept insisting that Real weren’t a part of the equation, that the problem was between us and Ronaldo, the very fact that one conversation with Ferguson was enough to ensure the player’s future with us is testament that Real Madrid were the ones with the problem, and that problem still exists. For all their trying, they couldn’t get a single player to sign for them this summer, and lost one of their bright, young players to City, of all clubs, as he was so desperate to get away from them.
“He is a professional who was trained in Manchester, who owes much to the club and Ferguson,” Mijatovic said. “He never said clearly: ‘I want to go to Madrid’. I very much respect his professionalism and his decision to not agitate for a move from the club where he plays.”
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Are there any serious people around RM or are they all muppets?
I don,t think it is any secret that Ronny Golden bollocks is after a move to Madrid…. all people who I talked to when it was not sure if he was off or he was to stay thought he would bugger off to Spain. But they forgot just 2 things… he only signed a new longer term contract the year before and had a few years to go on it, and Sir Alex is a manager used to getting his own way and definitley would have kept hold of his registration to prevent him playing.
Funny how, after his meeting with SAF, he suddenly decided to stay…. bet you Fergie told him straight, ‘ You are staying son so get the idea of out of your head’. Probably why he is playing like a prick at the moment and yes I know he,s been out for a while injured .
My feelings are to keep him for this year and sell the Tosser for 55 million to whoever, even City if they are daft enough to buy the cunt.
Pedja Mijatovic talks as much shit these days as a hyper city fan
I woke up this morning pondering a variant of this issue: half-asleep I wondered what SAF told him and then, half-awake, it occurred to me that apart from telling Ronaldo that he was contracted to UTD for four more years (period. end of subject) that he might also have mentioned that when the OldFootieKnight retires then Carlos Quieroz is already lined up to replace him after the World Cup of 2010. It just seemed so obvious that it can’t possibly be true – can it ?
I think that this issue lay dormant in my subconscious after having a discussion the other day with a kid, who wanted to know who was a likely successor to SAF. Not Keane, Not Hughes, Not Ole-Gunnar – so who ? Who would have feet big enough to fill SAF’s shoes ? Apart from Jose the Moaner, who is non-starter, the only other names that came to me were Michael Laudrup, who did a brilliant job at Getafe last year and then quit in the off-season without taking another job, and CQ who left Old Trafford for the second time on a “limited engagement” with his national team. Quite honestly, I can’t come up with a remotely-likely candidate – can you ?
They signed van der Vaart for something ridiculous like £7m, but yes, a meagre summer compared to some.
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CR would have walked all the way to Madrid if only Fergie would have let him go.
There’s a whiff of triumphalism about this post, which is understandable, given the outcome of the saga that played out over the summer. However, I think most people realise that Cristiano did want to leave to play for Real Madrid (boyhoood dream or whatever) and was persuaded to stay by Ferguson, probably by saying something like (this is my speculation): “Manchester United don’t have to sell you and won’t sell you, no matter what amount Real Madrid put on the table. So, get used to the fact that until your contract expires, you’re staying here”.
Whether Cristiano still wants to go to Real remains to be seen. Supposedly he could walk away in 2010 by handing over £10 million under the Webster ruling (any footballer aged between 23 and 28 can walk away from a club, so long as he has served three years of a four or five-year contract and pays the remainder of his wages as compensation).
By the way, you are wrong in one respect – Real Madrid did get to sign players this summer. Admittedly with nowhere near the media impact of Cristiano, but nonetheless both Van der Vaart and De la Red have had excellent starts to the season
Maybe Citeh and Madrid should be in cahoots which is other… as both clubs are in cloud fuckin cuckoo land..
I do not know where they get this info from etc … the Real board remind me a bit of the cast from Last of the Summer Wine, “Old, scenile, and just go around talkin shite” and “pissin there pants”
…and Real STILL cannot stop talking about Ronny.