Cristiano Ronaldo has given the clearest indicator yet that he is staying put at Old Trafford for next season at the least. Whilst I don’t think we should get ahead of ourselves, given that he said he was going to stay last year, before then deciding he wanted to go, it certainly is the right time to be putting on a united front.
With the biggest game of the season to be played on Wednesday, it is important that the team is pulling together in one direction.The other players know how important Ronaldo is to our team and our success and hearing that he has no intention of leaving will only have a positive effect on them.
As well as claiming he wants to stay put, he has also spoken about the manager with the highest regard, reflecting on the input Fergie has had on his footballing career so far.
“Manchester United is my home. My heart is here. This is where I want to play. This is my home now,” said Ronaldo in an interview with the NOTW. “I think even when I say my heart is here people are going to speak up and make things up. But this is where I want to play. The boss believes in this team and so do I. We are part of an era that can go down in history for the way we are playing and for the trophies we are winning. And this is where I want to be. Manchester United is now my house.”
Ronaldo claims that his relationship with Ferguson is a lot more than just footballer and coach, with Sir Alex giving him plenty of advice about things outside of football.
“Firstly he is probably the most knowledgeable football coach in the world,” Ronaldo added. “I learn from him every day. No matter how good I become, I know he is a man who will always be able to teach me that little bit more. I don’t get tired of learning from him because I know every bit of advice he gives me will make me a better player. The second person he is, is a father to me. Ever since I joined Manchester United, he has been like a second father to me. I don’t just respect him, I have the affection for him a child has for his father. When he gives me advice that is non-football, I listen because it will make me a better person.”
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The guy’s just gone RIGHT up in my estimation. Like almost in the vecinity of Davey B…ok maybe not that close.
and yet the sunday papers still say he’s off
I hope that he means it. Following last summer’s nonsense and his body language during this season, he looked like he did not want to be here. Let’s wait and see what will he say after the match on Wednesday. Will he need a new ‘challenge’ or is it that he got a hint that Real Madrid cannot afford his current market value? Would he sign a new long term contract, if he was offered one now? (I hope Gill and Glazers would test him on this) or is this just a ploy to stay ay United for another year and then buy last two years of his contract out?
thats a bit on the negitive side there Xyth
the guy is saying all the right things
has finished the last few months of the season on top form
saying his heart is with united
talking about sir alex ferguson being like a father
his respect for everything united
he wants to be with united to make history
cheer up united are in the champions league final on wednesday
and ronaldo will score
him park and anderson
3-0
I will remember these words.And i hope that he will live up to them once the Rome game is over.I like what he says about SAF.I thought that he also saw CQ as his second father but maybe SAF has influenced him more.
He’s staying
I posted here during the summer that he’s staying and this is all just crap and I am glad I was right!
He may well be off to his boyhood club in the future but who expected him to stick around like Giggs or Scholes? He’ll be gone but he’ll give his best till he’s here and Fergie will let him leave when the time is right
@costas : he will definitely stay this time by saying this on a number of occasions.Ron also said he regretted what he said after the CL final at the start of the season.before his heart was in Madrid but now its in Manchester, lol
Xth – Good points about Ronnie’s contract and market value; there’s also the question of various Real presidential candidates backing away from implementing a pre-contract agreement that was put in place by the ousted Calderon, because they need to be seen as initiating their own transfer coups.
But the body language-thing is just old hat, a remnant of an earlier part of the season: consider his celebration of the third goal against Spurs, his focus against Porto and Arsenal, his desperate-to-play antics against City. Even if the player is solely motivated by personal glory, by a cold calculation of which club offers him the best platform for attaining that personal glory – the fact he’s decided Manchester United offer that platform, is fantastic news for our club and dreadful news for our enemies.
A few months ago I You-Tubed the highlights of Ronaldo’s 07-08 season, and got very depressed contemplating the Real-poisoned pale imitation we now had in that player’s place. Well that first player is back, and even with Rome still to come, I’m already excited about 09-10.
WAZZA GOOD MORNING
THIS ONES FOR YOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0chS-cxJZc
We have to keep him!
@GHTT : good morning mate.well its 3:30 over here now.thanks a lot for the video.Emily sang it with real passion.the last line she just messed it up but never mind.
she just want to keep singing we love united
@GHTT : LOL .she is just fantastic at those chants.keep em coming
Billy Meredith mate i kinda know what your saying but apark from maybe the manager i dont ever remember a player where we HAD to keep him. its fantastic if he stays and even more fantastic that he wants to stay because heis one of the worlds best but manchester united are a one man team and thats Sir Matt Busby and once united staff and players keep the team going the Sir Matt Busby way then no pplayer is bigger
nice one wazza
in the mood for the champions league final
this is emily on last seasons final for ya wazza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLKj3unn0TM&
I said it before and will say it again. Ronaldo will only leave when SAF retires. Till that day he will be in a UNITED shirt.
Best words so far from Ronnie! Yet back page of tabloids yesterday said he was off! Fools.
ghtt : sorry didn’t realise you had made the point about the papers mate!
what is paper,ink black ink on white wood.they need to sell them
Good lad. Always happy to read something positive from Ronaldo. There’s never been a doubt about him as a footballer. But this just shows he is growing as a man. Well in.
That to me was very heart felt he was only short of saying he loves him like a father. He’s here to stay!!!!!
They are strong words from Cristiano. Remember that he took about a week or 2 to come to terms with his dads death so he obviously loved his dad more than anything, so to call Fergie a father figure is very heart felt.
Viva Ronaldo
Best news we had for a long time on this whole episode in his and our history together
Alas, but not for the papers as now anything they write is LIES as Cristiano says but they still continue as they need to make PROFIT – MONEY
Sir Alex mentioned after the shambles of last summer when he finally persuaded the boy to stay that he hoped that would be the end of the matter and he would settle down on get on with a long career with United.
Sir Alex has proved to be right again
I honestly believe that this boy which he still is compared to some of us will go down in the history of United along with another young lad we all know as the Wayne Rooney add to that a choice of 3-4 others at the club.
As each season goes past for me of the 40 years I been following United I really am starting to believe that we are seeing an era which will not only create history in our history but in the history of our great sport.
This team could and will possibly go onto to win a few more European Cups after the barren years of the 70s and 80s I finally enjoy my football again
Viva Ronaldo, indeed !
The news from Madrid would seem to suggest that TheVirus won’t pay for him and that they are hoping to get him “on the cheap” in a couple/three years which would more-or-less coincide with SAF’s likely departure. That’s so far into the future that, honestly, “only God knows”.
In the next little while, I am expecting that we will learn that CR has been offered – and accepted – a new offer from UTD/Nike. What will be interesting about that news will be the length of the deal rather than the money involved. The length of the deal will go a long way to substantiating – or negating – the points I made in the previous paragraph.
I suppose, too, that a new deal for Ronaldo will mean that Carlitos will leave. I think he’ll go to InterMilan who have the money to satisfy his wage demands and KiaJ’s desire to cash in on his “slave”. Plus, Carlitos would be a good foil for Ibra – and Massimo Moratti is rich, rich, rich and desperate to win the CL trophy so the wage/transfer fee won’t turn him away. And, finally, Inter is loaded with Argentines so he’ll feel comfortable there. But all that will mean is that InterMilan will get UTD’s fourth-best forward !
Maybe finally Ronaldo has realized that moving to Madrid would be a step down. He’s now a part of a team which can achieve amazing things for years to come whilst Real Madrid seem to be going downhill. If Real won’t step up in the near future and give Barca a real title race or have a bash at the Champions League title, I think Ronaldo might be staying longer with us than we maybe expected.
Ronaldo and the Berbatov / Tevez debate are the two subjects that most divide United fans. For all those of you with the “anti Ronaldo agenda” ( Scott?) would you now admit there is nothing more Ronaldo can say to confirm he loves United. Now two things have to happen:
1. Gill offers him a new contract.
2. Scott starts singing VIVA RONALDO again!
i hope he stays,im a paying supporter,i pay to watch my team and also to see performances from the best rival players,this guy is a giant in a football kit and to waste himself even being distracted by them fake galactico’s is a crime to football, sign for arsenal christiano lol
i think ronaldo just needs to be loved,he accepts the madrid rubbish but mainly in hope that fergie an gill will reach out to him an romance him, he needs that love,pv4 did it every year,he just needs to be careful because oneday he might flirt with madrid and end up flogged by fergie to a higher bidder
read this in another forum and just had to share : “Real Madrid is like that girl you meet at a party, at that moment you think she’s gorgeous, amazing personality, fun to be around, etc. etc.
Then some friends tell you how many dudes she’s been with, you see her again out at a party and she’s wasted making an ass of herself, and you wonder why you even wanted anything to do with her in the first place.”
I think Ronnie had some beer goggles on last summer
great news,i only wake up minutes ago and today it will be a good day definitly
He knows he’s at the worlds best club with the worlds greatest Manager, consistantly winning the big prizes. At least he is starting to realise what a joke of a football club Real Madrid is. They are full of overrated players and will fall further and further behind Barcelona both at home and in Europe. I can see him scoring on Wednesday.
Thats a brilliant analogy Rome. I won’t ever look at Real Madrid again!
Ronny has realized that he is at the worlds biggest and best team, with the worlds best players ( Rooney, Vida, Berba, Rio, Patty, Ando etc.) and he is winning the worlds most prestigous trophies.
Ronny can be at the forefront of this history making era.
So long as the worlds most deadly duo, Rooney and Ronaldo are here. Along with GOD still being the manager. Trophies will keep on finding there way to Old Trafford.
He will be playing outright centre forward next season – new winger will be bought ( maybe Ribery) with Rooney on the flank and Berba in the hole – you heard it here first !
I think that was exactly it. He realised that Real Madrid was going to offer him nothing that he couldn’t get at OT.
We’re poised for a quadruple here, and Real won… I’m pretty sure it’s nothing. At least, I think it’s nothing.
Besides, to be on the losing end of a 4-0 score-line against dippers?
Madrid took two notable beatings off the top of my head – against Barca where it really mattered, and against Liverpool, where they needed a result.
The only notable dent on our campaign this season is being knocked out of the F.A. Cup that had a strike force that was too poor to score, and losing a derby match that we should’ve cared more about, but didn’t.
I remember reading a quote from the BBC, “United could send the reserves’ reserves squad, lose 5-0, forfeit their next match against Fulham, and still win the league.”
VIVA RONALDO
Viva Ronaldo!!
At last the comments we’ve all wanted to hear (about time). Ronaldo winner on Wednesday would put the icing on the cake.