Cristiano Ronaldo has been making all the right noises again as the January transfer window approaches. Obviously Manchester United would not sell the player in the next month, but that won’t stop the media writing about it.
Real Madrid have lost three of their last four games in La Liga and lost to Juventus twice in the group stages of the Champions League. They’re currently in 5th place and their manager has already conceded defeat ahead of this coming weekend’s game against Barcelona. Things aren’t looking too great for Ronaldo’s ‘dream club’.
So Ronaldo feels at home here and he’s going to stay. Yes, you heard right.
“I feel at home there,” Ronaldo said. “I arrived there when I was very young and I have won individual and team trophies there. Today I have this individual award that makes me very happy, it’s the fulfilment of work that I have been doing for a long time. But I am ambitious. I have to keep on lifting individual and team trophies. I hope everything will be good again this year. And that we’ll win the the Champions League again and the Premier League also, which is the club’s priority. It’s not the time to talk about other clubs at the moment. I’m happy here and I’m going to stay.”
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Probably saw the Real Madrid/Seville game and thought: ‘What the fuck was I thinking about even joining this joke of a football club!’ He knows what’s good for him by staying at United.
just a question for us all guys, would ronaldo have changed franco fc’s fortune? i would have to say no because their problem is actually in teh defence, except he would have to play in place of marcelo/heinze/pepe/cannavaro. lol
I love that n i love real madrid defeat
Can’t help but get the feeling he’s doing this to try and placate us, lads.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful for what he’s provided us with and I really hope SAF’s comments after the protracted saga had ended (about Ronnie having finally seen the light) are true, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we see Real knocking on the door next Summer with us having to go through it all again, that’s all I’m saying.
I get real pleasure when I read about or hear that Madrid have lot again or are in some turmoil and what not! I’ve never wished misfortune any other club (except maybe Arsenal, and that was a few years ago too) but these guys deserve it in bucketloads.
What’re the chances of Schuster remaining in the job after they get trashed by Barca?
he’s still going at some point to somewhere more mediterranean, I would put a lot of money on that, his comments are never unequivocal ‘it’s not the time to talk about other clubs at the moment’….got to stop kidding ourselves, the signs are all there but in the mean time there’s no point in upsetting the fans…roy keane was telling everyone how stories saying he was leaving sunderland were rubbish a couple of weeks ago…this is the nature of football, he doesnt like manchester, we all know he’s pretty selfish so he’ll do whatever he wants. Who wants to spend their whole career at a club they had no prior allegiance to?
Really wish he wouldn’t respond to these comments and just show how committed he is on the field.
“Pictures speak a thousand words” is the saying, and his pictures have spoke nothing but bad words
Lies lies lies, after all the nonsense he was talking over the summer i dont believe a word he says. do the talking on the pitch Ronaldo
I think people have misunderstood the point.
Ronaldo doesn’t want to leave for money or trophies,
which is what a lot of people do want in the game.
He proved this by trying to go to Real after we won
the Champions’ League and the Premiership, he already
earns an estimated £120,000 a week and Real Madrid
are hardly going to pay him much more.
He just doesn’t enjoy Manchester like a lot of players
[Vidic included] and wants to go to Madrid as it’s similar
to where he grew up from a cultural point of view and he
also supported them growing up, is it that much of a sin
to not enjoy a foreign country and want to go back to Iberia?
When fergie says that this guy was a different animal, this is a different animal.
Definitely not a saint nor an evil either.
Somewhere between the good and bad.
Does he have a book comming out?!!
What about the new deal for forty million quid ? Surely, part of the arrangement must be that he stops talking out of both sides of his mouth.
Sure, it’s a lot of money but Ronaldo is one hell of a lot of player. Those people who seem to be compulsive bargain-basement shoppers just don’t seem to realize that you often have to pay lots of money to get the very best, proven product.
In the current global financial crisis, Ronaldo can really only deal with UTD – Moratti of InterMilan is in the oil refining business and, trust me, that isn’t very pretty these days; the fascists of Real Madrid are swirling around the toilet bowl; and, I would imagine, that hell would freeze over before SAF would sell him to the RentBoyz whose owner is in a real cash crunch these days. Really, who else is going to pay him forty million ?
He’s still a cunt as far as I’m concerned.
His behaviour so far this season has not done anything to win me over again after his antics over the summer.
Until he shows what he is saying on the pitch, his words will just go in one ear and out the other.
He didnt have to say those words last night so we should just give him benefit of doubt. Lets enjoy him while he is at United!
Calderon in trouble . Cunt.
@East stand Manc: probably true, anyone can clearly see the reaction he gets at OT isn’t the same as last season and I’m sure he wants it back.
Anyone read what the guardian said? They claimed that he refused to commit to United and such, just tryna stir shit and it’s so annoying ‘cuz he’s clearly said how he’s fed up about it all.
After my glorious post champions league off season buzz was ruined by ronaldo and he cut my f#cken heart out with his forked tongue I will need alot more from him to prove he wants be a red.
He is staying at old trafford because he realises that he can be a legend here, win trophies and to a guy with an ego the size of a small sun that is what really counts. Listen to all the talk about winning team and individual trophies again! Great attitude for us his poor upbringing gives him drive to prove himself.
He wants more golden eggs and he will put up with the rain for it.
Lucky SAF knows his buttons and Real are a bunch of idiots who could steal defeat from the jaws of victory.
Real have more money than brains…Ruud Van Longface goes down so they buy another injury prone Dutch striker…what happens…they score 3 and concede 4.
I’m sick of Ronaldo, sick of the circus he brings, sick of his antics every time he is or isn’t fouled…and after this weekend couldn’t care less if he stays or goes. All those who sing Viva Ronaldo are just a bunch of glory-seeking muppets with their brains somewhere slightly south of their midriffs. This summer he told me what he thought of my affection, my club and my intelligence…and it wasn’t very complimentary. Notice how the “better than George Best” talk has dried up?!? Hell, Becks was a better number 7 at this point. What a ponce!!
this season.. everytime i see Real lose i feel conflicted emotions. I love it when i see them losing a game due to their summer antic but the damn stats shows that MOST season Real win la liga, we win the premiership. bahhh
I really, really hope we get R. Madrid in the 2nd round of the CL (assuming they make it through) and then we trash them home and away and show them who is the real daddy around here! KINGS OF EUROPE!
Schuster gone from Madrid, Ramos now in charge. Bet he is glad he stayed!
@OT Red; Well, here’s the funny thing, he said (and I quote) “when the fans see me play again, they will love me”, so I don’t think it’s that. He’s an arrogant cnut, but the wrong sort, it would seem.
Someone drew an excellent parallel with Cantona, who had the right sort of arrogance and who was, at the end of the day, perfectly aware of the fact that United > everything else.
@Whiteknight03′s reference to ‘Viva Ronaldo’; Pretty much (I laughed out loud actually) !. I remember coming home on the train from the win at Blackburn and one of the lads behind us who’d successfully been startin’ chants all the way pipes up with ‘Viva Ronaldo’, only to get nothin’. He took a swig of his can and chuckled ‘You’s all still fuckin’ hate him don’t you?’
Not even a word in response – the rest of the carriage, to a man, looked back with a wry smile. Ha!
East manc it was me who mentioned Cantona’s arrogance and im glad you agree because Ronaldo although he might be the one with the most goals he will never be a true number 7 in my eyes Cantona is still the King and ronaldo will never have the same status at Old Trafford.
looks like im not the only one who’s had funny ‘Viva ronaldo’ moments, on the mini bus down to pompey away some lad tried starting it off and got soaked with beer
it seems most people havent forgot his antics over the summer and rightly so
@ Red-Manc; It certainly isn’t going to be forgotten in 5 or 10 games like he thinks.
You know in France they call the United no. 7 a “numéro mythique”, which translated means “legendary number” (or at least it’s closer to that than ‘mythical number’), and they’re spot on.
All those to have worn the shirt have had some sort of magic surrounding them. Best was pure genius, Robbo was raw power and inspiration in human form, Eric was technically gifted (and as a bonus arrogant enough to piss all non-United supporters off no end!) and Becks had the drive and determination that was required to be the perfectionist that he was.
Ronaldo has all the tools in the box to be a great player technically, no doubt, but legendary status will elude him, like you say, not because of his natural ability, but his brain/mouth coordination, of all things. That will end up wiping out, slowly but surely, any magic that surrounds him (from what he does on the pitch). Moments like Villa (the flick) and Pompey at home (the free kick) last season, or him rising above the Citeh kickin’ he got (to step up and take the peno that won us the title at the Council House) the season before, or his cameo in the FA Cup Final in his first season, will all be forgotten amongst the myriad of tactless statements (and what they do to us).
That’s why I said earlier, I truly hope what SAF says is true; that he *has* grown up and matured, that he *has* realised United is the best place for him to be, because if he has, and we can have every transfer window from now until he’s 30-odd, stress-free, then in the long run I’m willing to forgive him a couple of Summers of stupidity in return for a career of magic moments. Unfortunately, deep down in my heart I know he’s (and will remain for some time to come) not in possession of a self-imposed filter on what he says, just in the same way, deep down in his heart, he knows he still wants to play for Real.
There’s probably more stuff I could add, but I can’t be arsed at this time in the mornin’ … got a lecture at 10.
East Stand manc: Good post that pal, interesting about the Number 7 shirt, can believe that, like you say just look at the people who have worn it over years. Hope Ron proves us wrong but can’t see it.