RoM Reads

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1. February 27, 2013 at 13:40

   FletchTHEMAN says:

   BeautifullyReds GIFs are always a treat. But nice to be able to highlight the superb passing from Giggs, Rafael and Carrick. Rafael for MOTM for me.

   Worth a look as always.
2. February 27, 2013 at 15:27

   wayne says:

   Casilla’s is a total cunt,the way he dives when barely touched makes me sick he’s also a dirty cunt,hate the bastard
3. February 27, 2013 at 16:57

   King Eric says:

   Yeah pipe down Iker. I remember the “Golden pin up boy” saying Madrid would NEVER have lost the Champions League Final 3-1 in 2011. They went on to get hammered by them that season five nil.
4. February 27, 2013 at 16:58

   King Eric says:

   Actually I have only just read casillas’s comments. Nothing too bad really, just stating the obvious.
5. February 27, 2013 at 20:53

   denton davey says:

   The gathering storm about CR7′s future is intriguing, not least because he is no longer “a boy”.

   Ronaldo is a power-athlete who is fanatical about training, diet, and practice. His desire to excel cannot be questioned but it comes at a price in that he’s not exactly the “best team-mate” because of his selfishness.

   The real question about the guy is how much longer he can perform at the top of the top-level ? When will he lose the power/speed edge ? Will he be able to compensate for his declining physical skills by adapting – like TheGingerNinja and TheLegend and, one hopes, TheWayneBoy – to a new, subordinate role ? To cut to the chase – does he have five more years at the top of the top-level, when he will be 33 ?

   When he’s considering his options – and when others are weighing up their options with him – it has to be considered that his image-rights are enormously valuable, above and beyond his playing skills. For an elite athlete, “charisma” is also tied to winning – this was the case with Michael Jordan and is now no longer the case with Tiger Woods.

   Ever since SAF sold him to RM for the still-record fee of 80 million quid, Fergy has never spoken ill of him and it would appear that, insofar as the decision is his to make, he gladly pay a premium to get him back into UTD’s first eleven.

   But how much ca$h would be involved or would this be a matter of “trading” assets. Right now, UTD possess two assets of extraordinary value to RM – DDG and Chicharito. AND, if my assessment of the limited scope of the transfer market for a player of CR7′s expense is correct, then I would imagine that UTD could actually negotiate from a “hard ball” position of strength. Equally, as the quotation from Calderon makes clear, RM will face a steeply-declining market for such a valuable asset as Ronaldo’s winding-down contract creates little room for bluffing on their part – wait too long and the guy can walk away for nothing.

   The final factor in this fantasy equation comes from outside the equation itself – we’ve seen this season how the addition of RVP has lifted the team and it could be (and would be) argued that adding a talent like CR7 to the existing first-team would make an even-greater impact.

   I know that we’re a long way from the fantasies of the transfer window but this is a saga that is not going to be resolved with a couple of days of negotiations – it’s going to be a huge gamble for all concerned. It’s a story that isn’t going away any time soon – or, to be more accurate, it’s a story that won’t go away as long as SAF is given “authority” and “discretion” to build a championship/trophy-winning team.