Exclusive Interview: Cristiano Ronaldo to reveal his 'Dream step forward'

[Joe King]

For all of Clive Tyldesley's creaming of Ronaldo like Motson does for Rooney, he was pretty anonymous in yesterdays game. Again, big game-big bottler.

As for Manchester United being the biggest team in the world Real Madrid are streets ahead in terms of recognistion, finance, fan base. Ronaldo at Real Madrid will be raking in the money not only from his wages which will obviously increase but his image rights. Expect him to advertise all sorts of crap like Audi amongst others. For Ronaldo, he will make more money, its a new challenge, better culture and he would be regarded as a 'legend' for playing at the biggest club in the world. This would obviously fill that huge ego of his.

[Leyton388]

Glad he is going but to be fair the guy has won everything he can at old toilet so why not now move and play for the team you have dreamed of playing for. If any one of us played for Barca or real and liverpool come knocking would you not pull out all the stops to get the move because i would move heaven and earth to play for the pool if i was a player?

Plus if the rumours about fergie walking if the glazers sell ronaldo can only make it better for them as fergie has been a thorn in their sides from day one and only fan power has seen him stay in charge as more fan revolts is the last thing they need. If you had just spent £800m on a club and had some whiskey breath smelling cunt telling you what to do and trying to flex his muscle what would you do?

[tufty]

Guillem: Do you think your dream will come true?


Ronaldo: I really hope so, lets see


Guillem: What about the operation?


Ronaldo: I will be seen by the doctors of United in a couple of days

very much doubt that would be the neatest of scars, may even spell '****'

[Reaper]

[Parm]

Fair play to the lad - he won everything for The Scum and wants his dream move to Madrid. Scum will get a big wedge and he will have his dream come true.

Brilliant news for Madrid fans - next seasons La Liga will be very exciting now.

guess he wants to move to a big club eh!!

[tsb]

Glad he is going but to be fair the guy has won everything he can at old toilet so why not now move and play for the team you have dreamed of playing for.

I've not seen it, but it sounds like the plot to those Goal films.

[Maxiedge]

There are some snippets suggesting Schneider goes the opposite way along with Ramos.

When I first read that I seriously thought you were talking about their private lives and thought "that's a a bit of a strange thing to mention in a Ronaldo article".

[Tee]

guess he wants to move to a big club eh!!

[jonesie]

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/06/21/why_united_should_let_this_ego.html

Why United should let this ego walk off to Madrid

Daniel Taylor
June 21, 2008 12:54 AM

First of all a little story to tell you what kind of man we are talking about. It is January 9, 2008, and in an upstairs room at Manchester United's training ground five elderly men in smart blazers are struggling with their emotions in front of a hushed audience. It is the club's media day building up to the 50th anniversary of the Munich air disaster and Sir Bobby Charlton's polite smile does not hide the fact he is trembling as he takes his seat. Bill Foulkes is straight-backed and dignified but only a couple of questions have been asked before the tears appear in his eyes and he reaches for a glass of water.

In an adjacent room Wayne Rooney has agreed to offer a modern-day perspective of that seminal day when 23 people, including eight members of Sir Matt Busby's team, were killed in the wreckage of the burnt-out BEA Elizabethan. It is not his specialist subject but he handles the occasion with dignity and more eloquence than some people might imagine. But then Cristiano Ronaldo comes through the double doors and the mood is broken.

He is wearing a white suit jacket and ripped jeans, looking every bit the boy-band hunk, but it is very obvious he is in a bad mood. He begins by berating Karen Shotbolt, the club's press officer, because he is waiting for Rooney and the event has over-run. He is banging his watch with his hand, flapping his arms and gesturing in the way that Portuguese footballers usually reserve for fussy referees and, at first, he is so animated it appears as if it might be a wind-up.

When he flounces back through the doors, cursing loudly, it is very obvious he is being deadly serious. Rooney is professional enough to carry on with his tribute but the attention is no longer exclusively on him. Thirty seconds later Ronaldo appears again, first rapping his forefinger against the glass in the door, then opening it by a fraction and starting to whistle at Rooney in the way that a farmer beckons his sheepdog.

It was such an unpleasant scene the journalists decided not to write about it because we had been invited to the training ground to cover a far more important subject and, when you have sat with men as noble as Charlton, Foulkes, Albert Scanlon, Harry Gregg and Kenny Morgans and seen the hurt in their eyes, it felt incongruous to veer off-track. But coming away from Carrington that day it was difficult not to wonder what had become of the pimply teenager with the braces on his teeth who had been photographed, in his first few weeks as a United player, holding hands with his mother, Dolores, as they crossed a busy Manchester street.

The answer, of course, is that Ronaldo has fallen in love with his own reflection and, as United are currently finding out, that ego is in danger of spiralling out of control. Nor, sadly, is this story a one-off. One member of staff at Old Trafford reports being shocked by his rudeness when sorting out his travel arrangements for a club trip last season. And then there was last season's Football Writers' Association's annual dinner when, with barely any notice, its player of the year demanded that space was made for five of his friends to attend and that he would like them all to be on the top table with him. He got his way, as superstars often do, but the organisers were unimpressed, to say the least.

This is not to say that Ronaldo is all bad. He won a court case against the earlier this week after it was reported that he had been fined for breaking club rules by using his phone during training: a story that was obvious baloney to anyone who has followed the player's career. Ronaldo, in many ways, is the consummate professional when it comes to improving himself on the pitch. He is not a man for nightclubs or raucous evenings out among the Manchester glitterati and there is something deeply impressive about the way he has come from his humble beginnings, growing up in Madeira in a house so small the washing machine was on the roof, to become the most penetrative attacking footballer in the world.

And yet United's more loyal and thoughtful supporters would by now be entitled to think it would be better for Sir Alex Ferguson and the Glazer family to end this shabby saga and let the previously unthinkable happen. To them, his constant prevaricating about his future, his flirting with the Spanish media and his apparent disregard for Manchester United, must smack of a man who has started to think he is bigger than the club.

His sound bites have become increasingly strategic, as if he thinks we cannot see what he is doing, yet nobody will have been surprised that the sweat had barely dried on his brow after Portugal's defeat by Germany on Thursday before he had re-iterated his desire to leave Old Trafford - just as Real Madrid had requested. United insist they will not allow themselves to be bullied into a corner but, when a player is acting like this and would so obviously be resentful and unsettled if he is denied the transfer he craves, the question should be: what is the point in keeping him?

[Shaggy]

Hahaha, what a disgusting **** he is. Most of us have been aware of this for some time - United's myopic supporters have had to have their eyes opened by being royally ****ed over by their hero.

[Pablo]

Interesting point as always.

Would be nice if you let loose and abused Ronlado just a little bit though, go on, you know you want to........

DWW just pm'd me this:

"Alright geezer,

Saw your post t'other day like. That Ronaldo ****** is a right prick like, proper cocksucker, a real **** stabber.

God it feels good to escape my online persona for a bit, that nicer than nice act is a real bitch to keep up.

Im off to plow some ho's. Peace out,

Dave"

Just thought I would pass this on

[Joe King]

Hahaha, what a disgusting **** he is. Most of us have been aware of this for some time - United's myopic supporters have had to have their eyes opened by being royally ****ed over by their hero.

He typifies United with the arrogance and ignorance.

[badpiggy]

DWW just pm'd me this:

"Alright geezer,

Saw your post t'other day like. That Ronaldo ****** is a right prick like, proper cocksucker, a real **** stabber.

God it feels good to escape my online persona for a bit, that nicer than nice act is a real bitch to keep up.

Im off to plow some ho's. Peace out,

Dave"

Just thought I would pass this on

I ****IN KNEW IT!!! all that reasonableness isn't good for a man. the campaign starts here for the real DWW to come out of the shadows of seeing every side of the ****in argument and start calling some of us cunts for a change. revoke his mod-ship immediately mods and provoke him into saying something that gets him banned!!!

[fah-q]

Sounds like the pressure from the press is building against him, Which to me is a sign that his time in England is up.

[Jaymo]

although it seems like he is going, im not sure if this is all an act to make the manc's love him more..

i don't know what it is, but im not 'getting my hopes up' that he leaves just yet, untill it really happens