Cristiano Ronaldo has spoken of great fondness for the club, staff, players and fans, after completing his big money move to Real Madrid.
He talks of the great influence Sir Alex Ferguson has had on his life, who he apparently met for a farewell dinner in Alderley Edge, how he will miss Wayne Rooney and what he thinks of the fans.
“I will miss the boss,” Ronaldo told Shortlist magazine. “Sir Alex has taught me so much on and off the field. I could not have asked for a better mentor. I will always owe him a lot and will never forget him. He made me aware from the start that I would be one of the best players in the world; he gave me that belief. When you are 17, you are just concerned about playing first-team football – you don’t think about being the best, but Sir Alex gave me the No 7 shirt because he believed I could do it justice. I can never repay the confidence he has shown in me over the years, and all the support he has given me in my journey to become the best.”
It’s not just the manager who he will miss, but all the people who have had something to do with his life over the past six years.
“I will also miss all the lads; the squad had a great atmosphere,” he continued. “I had a very special relationship with Wayne on and off the field. I have made some good friends with the players and all the staff, but it is time for me to move on now. I have a sentimental attachment; I have spent a quarter of my life here. I was boy when I arrived at Manchester United and I’m leaving a man. This club and its fans will always have a place in my heart. I have learnt a lot of life lessons here, and I will never forget all the things I have been taught by so many people.”
Aww, even I’m starting to kind of like him again! Er, almost. This is the kind of behaviour we should expect from players who move on. Take note Argie midget!
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well said lad
hope he has said this from the bottom of his heart.i have always thought he liked United but was too tempted by Real and will always repect Fergie.fergie made him what he is from a rubbish 18 year old who did not do anything apart from stepovers and diving
Fair play to Ronnie. Got us 80 million and now these nice words. Best of luck!
c u next tuesday you greasy so and so
When Cantona said he would have the club in his heart on his deathbed I believed him with all my heart. When ronaldo says the club is in his heart my natural instinct is to disbelieve him. I don’t think ronaldo cares about anything other than ronaldo.
A bit off subject but is anyone else still waiting of Blatter or Platini to come out and condemn the outrageous spending of a club £350 million in debt? When will the investigation into where they are getting their money from start?
Viva Ronaldo
Was reading and enjoying it till I came to the phrase, “I was boy when I arrived at Manchester United and I’m leaving a man”. LMAO. He’s matured alright when it comes to taking criticisms and jeers, but his antics are still bollox to me. Still ‘a child at heart’ I guess. LOL.
But then again, thank you Ronnie, may you succeed in your league and against Arsenal, Chelsea, and Liverpool, in the CL, but please, may you falter against us. LMAO.
He was a top player for us and with these comments he leaves a top man too.
He has been great for United and United has been great for him.
Let’s not sour our relationship with every player that leaves.
In my eyes he deserves more respect for what he has achieved at United than Tevez and yet the fans treated Tevez better in his final year.
Good luck Cristiano as long as its not at our expense in the Champions League !
Hat off to the lad, did us proud.
GOOD LUCK CRISTIANO
The money is probably coming from Blatter himself…
@enzo
well said, I am inclined to think this is all honey as well, to be taken with a grain of salt…
we’ll see, but fair play to the lad.
you are all fucking cameleons. he is making a fool out of you all. it’s like trusting a whore saying, i’ll fuck only you.
He’s no Utd legend, having left us like this. But I shall watch on in envy as he lights up La Liga.
BTW could really do with some good news, Real Madrid stealing our thunder, again, is fucking me off. Come on Fergie, surprise us all.
wish that was true…thanks for service and everything ron..
I have no problem believing those words of Cristiano Ronaldo. He has always respected SAF, that was why he didnt leave after that world cup, and that was why he didnt leave last summer and waited till this summer.
And he has always said that Real Madrid was his dream.
But the way he conducted himself to engineer the move was still unacceptable. Even though i believe these latest words are true, they bear no meaning to me after last summer.
Madrid have a 800M credit or overdraft if you like.Theyre spending this money and gambling that they can get it back by marketing these players.At least United are run like a proper football club.All the money we spend is from money the club has generated itself not borrowed from an outside source.Thats why we’ll never pay crazy money like them.Would be nice to see them go under.
He loves United. He loved it when he was here and he always will. It’s just that he would only have left for Madrid and since Madrid came in for him, he had to fulfil his “dream”.
Never believe that Ronnie would show more class than Tevez on the way out. Well i wish him all the best in his personal life. But i feel he will regret his choice.
I certainly believe him. I do think that if it had been any other club coming after him he would still have been here. It would be like any of us being at Real and winning everything and real being the right club for us and then having a United who were going through a Bad patch come after us. We would almost certainly be a little torn but would in the end probably want to Join United.
When he scored against sporting in Lisbon he showed real class with his reaction and I think that shows that he is appreciative of what the Managers/Coaches/Players/Club/Fans all do to help him improve and that that help leaves the club having a special place in his Heart. I suspect that it will be the same with us.
I wouldn’t be too surprised if he ended up back here at a massive cut price if the Real experiment fails
enzo133, muggaz, Red Rooney, to be very honest here, if he didn’t love man utd, he wouldn’t even bother to come up with any honey words, just base on the fact that he’s the only one player who calls himself the no.1 no.2 and no.3 player in the world; a player with so much arrogance, you could simply bitch about man utd, or blatantly not acknowledge how much they have helped him progress….
with the above mentioned.i’m compelled to believe that what he says is all real.
VIVA RONALDO!
pardon the word you, it should be he…..
As said before, a United Legend.
Fair well man, I hope you fail bad at Madrid, and come back to us for redemption.
Why dont united fans give ronny a break, he give us 6 years we got 80 million for em gud luck ronny.
I’ll miss seeing his name on the team list as we kick off the new season. Ronaldo is like an ‘ex-girl friend’ who had to leave, and I’m no gay. Read whatever you want into this! Anyone want to bet that we’ll meet Real Madrid in the CL group stage next? Platini will make sure of that.
I think he means it without a doubt. He just wants to prove himself somewhere else. He still holds Sporting in his heart. Remember that Goal Celebration in the CL against his old team.
This is nothing new, we always knew he respected Fergie and the club. I still hate him for the way he acted before he left. He was protesting on the pitch by not trying, fuck him, hope he does both his cruciates.
Real Madrid will fail financially in the next wave of the credit crisis to unfold sometime this winter and take debtors apart. Cristiano will again be a Manchester United player in 2011-2012.
from your mouth to God’s ears
DK Said,
Real Madrid will fail financially in the next wave of the credit crisis to unfold sometime this winter and take debtors apart. Cristiano will again be a Manchester United player in 2011-2012.
Fair play Ronnie lad!
Im not convinced whether it was £1 million or £100 million that Real bid for him, he wouldn’t have give a crap. As long as he was leaving.
But these words are good and should have been said
I wish people would stop wishing he did his cruciates.
I will always respect Ronnie,but never again will Tevez get respect from me.
i hope this convinces doubters to remember him fondly. He has done alot for the club both money and trophy wise. He’s not perfect, but who is??
Fuck him! its fine talking up the club when he’s gone. He acted like a like a scumbag for the past 2 years. Still looking forward to see Madrid play next season I must admit. Should be one hell of a show. Looks like we’re going to have to get in on the ground floor with the stars of tomorrow or else the Spanish giants will turn their heads as soon as they develop into stars.
oh god, a big behavior reversal between tevez and ronaldo. the magic of summer i guess
I’ve said some nice things about ex-girlfriends, but at the end of they day when all is said and done-do I really care ? It’s the same with ronaldo. He didn’t care enough to stay. Nice words, but he cared a lot more about madrid.
Why does he have to come out and be a nice guy. Its so much easier if we could have hated him
haha – I hope he does his cruciate also. He is nothing more than a whore by another name. I would laugh until I cried if he got put out for 18months with both knees in bits. fingers crossed…..
fair play to him for the comments but i’ll still not feel sorry for him when it all goes tits up at real!! we need a big name signing and quick, feels like there’s a dark fuckin cloud over OT at the min
thanks for all the success ron, you’ve been a great player, good luck, enjoy the sunshine and glitz in madrid.
i would be really glad if he told benzema not to go to real though.
Just got some great news. That prick Michael Shields lost his appeal. 10 more years without parole…
just got some real bad news…….talksport have reported that man united are in the hunt for……MICHEAL FUCKING OWEN.bookies have slashed odds on him being a united player as well.ah well.
“Lads” How sweet! He always said that
I’m liking him again, is that wrong? He was nice wasn’t he?
At least he didnt go YEAH IM FREE MOFO’S !! TAKE THAT!!!
Dare i say it… viva ronaldo?
All good but if that fucker wanted to leave in a good way like this he should have probably acted more like a professional on and off the field last season, he simply didnt show enough ”behavioural” class last season.
these are words penned by a PR adviser!
@ perkythered
maybe lol !
Owen is 4/9 to join us on skybet. I don’t like those odds. He looked pathetic everytime he played last year. If he was anywhere near his best he’d be a great signing but his time has gone.
Unitedgirl15 – Ronaldo is a prick
i dont want to hear anymore about the self centred prat!!!!!.if you believe that old load of tosh coming from him youll believe in anything. i just love the money hes brought in thats all hes worth to us. hes yesterdays news and hes history ,i just hope he falls flat on his boney arse at madrid and fails miserably and that van nistleroy stays there and makes his life hell like he did at united. AND NO IM NOT BITTER !!! ( not much )
phil c
oh i know that.
But he’s being very modest here?
clearly not bitter phil c!
Lol
“I can never repay the confidence he has shown in me over the years, and all the support he has given me in my journey to become the best.”
I have an idea, Ronaldo, of how you could have repayed Sir Alex: how about fulfilling the contract you signed???? THERE’S AN IDEA!
But no no no, instead less than a year after signing it, you went to the media telling them you wanted to leave and you were like a slave.
This guy is all class
Don’t compare Tevez situation with Ron, Scott. You know the difference.
I am not impressed but pleased.
viva ronaldo
Do I believe this…? Well maybe. Had he not called himself a slave last year this sale could’ve been a lot more amicable.
its easy to say all this after you leave.
the truth is that he knows to win the champions league he will have to face us at old trafford and does not want man utd fans to lynch him to death.
Yeah, i bloody hate that whiney fuking argie midget! ungreatful mother F
Most of these negative comments just confirm for me that people will believe whatever they chose to believe no matter what anyone actually says.
Ronaldo had no reason whatsoever to go to any lengths to appase United fans. Can anyone truely say that we would have one any of the titles we have over the last three without him? So that plus 80m I’d say puts him in pretty good credit with us.Yet, here’s a guy who says “I can never repay SAF for all that he taught me on and off the field”. Remember, we chose to sell him rather than try to compete with Madrid over a new contract.
If you can’t say thanks CR7 and sing VIVA RONALDO for me your not UNITED.
Compare those comments with Tevez’s.
I was never Ronaldo’s biggest fan, his play acting, his arrogance, his whining, and his greed and lack of work ethic took the shine off his brilliance, and lets be honest he has been the worlds best( along with Messi) foe the past 2 years.
But he was at least honest in that from day 1 he said he wanted to play in Spain at some point in his career and he dreamed of playing for Madrid, the club he’d supported as a boy. I’m sure if super Gaz Neville had started his career at some other club he would still have wanted to sign for us at some point, so we shouldn’t hate a player for wanting to play for the club of his boyhood dreams.
But he has no reason now to make these comments about United or Fergie, yet he has; that shows the decision to leave us wasn’t as easy as some have made out.
I’ll not personally miss you much Cristiano, but respect for the comments mate.
Ps, any chance we could tempt Keano out of retirement just to do a ‘Haaland’ on Tevez when we play Citeh next season? Its fair to say I’d enjoy that, very much.
Just watched the United Ronaldo tribute video. (Via Red Rant / 101 Goals)
I defy any true United supporter to not say “thanks CR7 and Viva Ronaldo” after watching the scrawny spagetti head teenager make his debut at Bolton and go one to score over100 great goals for us.
thanks for all the goals,memories and excellent games. Let move on….bring on next season!!!!!
cant wait for next season..its killing me just have to settled watching the mickey mouse confed cup and wimbledon…hahahahahaha
cant wait for united pre season in malaysia…
He is a United legend!!
Cant’ ever hate ronaldo.. I fancy him comin back to OT after a few yrs!
i used to absolutely love Tevez and now I the detest the prick.. Same was the case with Heinze!!
Good luck Ronaldo. Do what you did in the PL.. win win win