Well Im a United Fan. I believe in Self Respect.

SO we don’t need to kiss any whore-shagging-Portuguese’s arse to stay at the pinnacle.

We’ll make another No. 7!!
Got it Moron!

(And Where’s my POst?)

FORCA PORTUGAL!

I doubt, from your vehement uneducated response, that you are even a Man Utd fan. More likely a Man City Fan or a Chel$ki moron.

Take yer blinker off and get a life, it is not Cristiano talking, it is his money grabbing agent to get more mioney and REAL MADrid trying to unsettle the lad.

OZRED

Manchester United ace Cristiano Ronaldo faces a massive £25 million hit to his wages if he moves to Real Madrid.
The Daily Mail says Ronaldo risks blowing a £25million jackpot with sponsor Nike if he moves to Real this summer.

United, who will report Real to FIFA next week for their public pursuit of Ronaldo, are working on a complicated image rights deal with the club’s kit manufacturer for a ‘CR7′ range in an attempt to appease the winger
Michael Jordan was the first high-profile name to make a fortune this way when he launched his range and Tiger Woods has a 10-year deal with Nike worth £50m.

United’s non-executive director Bryan Glazer, who was closely involved with the deal for shirt sponsor AIG, is in negotiations with Nike over a contract that could be worth another £100,000 a week to the Portugal winger.

The contract is expected to run concurrent with his existing £120,000-a-week package at Old Trafford and will effectively top the £200,000 a week on offer at the Bernabeu.

Ronaldo, who has changed his signature simply to ‘CR7′, can market baseball caps, T-shirts and shorts around the world to capitalise on his growing status.

Nike, who already have an endorsement contract with Ronaldo, are keen to exploit his name but are reluctant to launch the range if he moves to ‘an adidas club’ such as Real.

SEE, I DIDN’T MAKE THIS ECONOMISTIC ARGUMENT UP ! THE MONEY INVOLVED REALLY IS MIND-BOGGLING.

read it on any trust worthy sites…sky sports etc..

OZRED

I wrote yesterday that since we haven’t heard anything directly from Ronaldo’s own mouth, that this frenzy is superficial. It is part of the RM campaign to unsettle the player and try to put pressure on UTD management which is why SAF and CQ were so vehement in saying that Cristiano ain’t going nowhere anytime soon. Four more years on iron-clad contractual obligation gives UTD all the trumps in this particular pissing contest.

However, Ronaldo’s MisterTenPerCent is no doubt agitating for more. But, hey, that’s his job.

The most interesting thing I have read on this subject was on a GuardianOnline blog in which one of the posters noted that Nike (who are a supporter of ManUtd) are working on a gazillion quid deal to make a special line of CR7 shoes – kinda like they did years ago with “AirJordan”. The key point is that RM are sponsored by Adidas so that Nike would hardly want to see their prize advertising asset fly off.

But there’s an even-bigger point – I think that behind all this agitation is a campaign by his MisterTenPerCent to try to capitalize on CR7′s popularity in the same way that David Beckham did when he signed with LAGalaxy for 250 million dollars – 250 million dollars !!!! – most of that money came from what is called “co-sponsors”. And, it has paid off these co-sponsors handsomely – Beckham 23 soccer jerseys are outselling Kobe Bryant and LaBron James combined, by a big, big margin. Ronaldo’s MisterTenPerCent must have taken cognizance of that incredible infllation in the rewards of merchandising – he would be a fool not to do so; in fact, he would be seriously negligent not to do so. Therefore, in my opinion, what we seeing in the press is a kind of charade to distract attention from the real money-making negotiations.

The stakes are HUGE which is why UTD won’t sell him without getting an incredible return-on-investment for foregoing those image rights. UTD got skinned by Real Madrid when they sold Beckham for a “mere” 25 million because that sum was covered by shirt-sales in less than a year.

Now, consider this: Beckham was the flavour-of-the-month a few years ago and has since shown by his American contract that the bar has been raised a lot in the meantime. In tihose circumstances, what would a younger man who is a much better player like be worth ? The mind boggles.

My guess is that the resolution to this charade is going to be a “new” contract for Ronaldo that takes into account these merchandising fortunes.

All the talk about Madrid’s weather is simply beside the point. Plus, he is not Spanish – he’s Portuguese and as Carlos Quieroz made very clear last week there is considerable resentment about Spanish chauvinism among the Portuguese.

Ronaldo is currently at the best team in the European soccier world – back-to-back EPL champions and now also CL champions. He is back-to-back player of the year in the EPL and the glamour boy of English football. even if he is only the fourth “most valuable” player on his team. At UTD he can help this team become a real dynasty because it is already on the way to that status.

If he goes to Madrid then he joins a very good team that has absolutely underperformed in the CL for the past three years. So, in a very real sense, moving to Spain would be a step backwards in commercial terms.

And, don’t forget, that the EPL gets more television viewers aroung the world because it is considered to be the best league so coverage from a “remote outpost” like my home town is now part of a globalized media.

If United fans did indeed believe the lies being perpetrated by Marca and Terra Etc it would be playing right into the hands of Real Madrid.

Look at how the media attempted to turn English fans against Cristano after the last world cup after his run in with Rooney. It was the fact United fans supported him that he stayed and opposition booing of him only served for him to better performances.

Until Cristiano appears on the United website video I believe nowt and CR7 will continue to get my support and I urge ALL Manchester United fans to continue giving the lad their support until the air is finally cleared AFTER Euro 2008.

None of the ‘reports’ of Cristiano’s alleged comments have been recorded on tape, video etc., if they had been I may have believed some of the bull, but as this form of ‘evidence’ has NOT surfaced, forget what the media is alleging. This is how the media sell their papers and we mugs buy them to find out the latest on CR7 and the so called comments/quotes he wants to leave.

FINALLY I personally believe Cristiano ‘could’ be playing games with the media as his revenge for the way they have treated him in the past.

OZRED.