Ronaldo to Real Madrid

[RoadEnd]

Real Madrid should have gone to Primark. You can get big girls blouses for just £4

[Shaggy]

Did you make this up yerself? If so, it's hit text stardom as me mate who never reads forums just texted it me.

And read out on Sky Sports News (censored) too.

And Talksport last night

Ha Ha, no ****, on sky & TS eh, Shaggy's okey cokey, bet the utd fans loved that.

Yep, just bashed it out last night! It's gone round the texts like wildfire Did I **** make it up...lol......a Manc, believe it or not, sent it to me last night.

[Vermilion]

Yep, just bashed it out last night! It's gone round the texts like wildfire Did I **** make it up...lol......a Manc, believe it or not, sent it to me last night.

Thought so. But wanted to give you the credit, a manc you say, well i never.

[Leyton388]

Rumours on the bbc site that Vidic wants out as well to Barca

[RoadEnd]

There's nothing more satisfying than bashing a quick one out in the evening!

[Shaggy]

By Oliver Kay, Liverpool supporter

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/article6482285.ece

Sir Alex Ferguson could lose two more of his Manchester United stars in the wake of Cristiano Ronaldo’s £80 million world-record transfer to Real Madrid.

Despite Ronaldo’s impending exit from Old Trafford, Carlos Tévez, the Argentina striker, still wants to leave the club and United are bracing themselves for offers from Barcelona, and possibly Real, for Nemanja Vidic.

Vidic’s wife, Ana, is growing increasingly unsettled in Manchester and wants to move to a warmer climate. Pep Guardiola, the Barcelona coach, is hoping to exploit the situation by making a £25 million bid for the Serbia defender.

Ferguson will fight tooth and nail to keep Vidic, who has three years left on his contract, but despite telephoning Tévez to urge him to stay, the United manager appears to be chasing a lost cause. Manchester City lead the pursuit of the striker’s signature, ahead of Liverpool and Chelsea.

United have lined up Antonio Valencia, the Wigan Athletic and Ecuador winger, as a replacement for Ronaldo, but in the event that Tévez leaves, Ferguson will be forced, reluctantly, to go back into the transfer market for another player.

Ferguson admires Franck Ribéry, the Bayern Munich winger, and Karim Benzema, the Lyons striker, but the United manager may be reluctant to do business given the prices being quoted by their respective clubs.

Bayern want €75 million (£64 million) for Ribéry and Lyons €50 million for Benzema, who is only 21 and remains largely unproven outside of his native France.

“We have said we will only deal under certain conditions,” Uli Hoeness, the Bayern general manager, said. “Namely, if the others want to do really crazy things.”

Remarkably, it took United only two hours to agree to Real’s offer for Ronaldo. David Gill, the United chief executive, was making his way to Geneva for a meeting with Fifa officials when his office received a fax from the Spanish club at about 6pm on Wednesday. Sources close to Gill insist that there was no warning from Real that a bid would be forthcoming.

Gill telephoned Ferguson first, then contacted Ronaldo’s camp, before the matter was taken to the Glazer family, the club’s owners, who insisted that the ultimate decision rested with Ferguson, at which point the manager gave the green light to sell the Portugal forward.

The news brought to an end a bitter three-year tug-of-war between the clubs, although it was greeted with an angry reaction by Michel Platini, the Uefa president. He described the fee as a “serious challenge to the idea of fair play” and vowed to establish new rules governing transfers in an effort to “clean up the system”.

It is understood that United will receive the fee in four annual instalments of £20 million. Sources close to the Glazer family insist that Ferguson will be free to reinvest the money on players, despite the club being faced with an interest bill of £69 million last year on their £699 million of debt.

In financial terms, though, the real winner is Ronaldo, 24, who is expected to sign a six-year contract before being formally confirmed as a Real player on July 1.

His salary will start at £9.5 million a year, rising 25 per cent annually to a staggering £29 million — or just over £557,500 a week — in the final year. He stands to earn up to £107 million.

Real’s outlay on Ronaldo and Kaká, who joined for £56 million this week, could total £330 million, with the club paying more than £1 million a week in wages for the pair come the 2014-2015 season.

[Tatterdemalion]

Did you make this up yerself? If so, it's hit text stardom as me mate who never reads forums just texted it me.

I can think of some-one close to us who kinda did the same thing....

[G]

The oft pillioried Balague called this transfer a month ago,saying the fee of 80 million had been agreed last season.

so at least we know some of the things he says about us may have some truth about them

[Shaggy]

What a complete and utter cunt


Cristiano Ronaldo has insisted he has no problem being jeered by crowds and that fans hurling insults simply spurs him on.

The Portuguese international, who looks set to finally make the move from Manchester United to Real Madrid in the next few days, was speaking in an interview which is due to appear shortly in French magazine So Foot.

Whilst Ronaldo is likely to receive a warm welcome at the Bernabeu, it may be a different matter should he return to Old Trafford, yet the soon-to-be Madrid man insisted it did not bother him.

“I love it when people jeer me. I love to see the hate in their eyes, to hear the insults,” he explained.

“It doesn't bother me. It's true lots of people hate me but there are even more who love me and who support me. I feel bad only when I play badly. Fortunately, that happens rarely.”

The 24-year-old also insisted that he was far from reaching his peak and that he expected to improve even further as a player in the future.

"I still have a long way to go. I really want to re-write the history of football,” he added.

“I am aware I'm already among the best of the best but I want to continue to write many more beautiful pages.”

The forward also explained that comparisons with Barcelona’s Lionel Messi were pointless and insisted he did not envy the Argentine’s talents.

"I have nothing to envy Lionel for. I don't compare myself to others,” he said.

“I am Cristiano Ronaldo - and I can win more medals than anybody else. I don't like to relax. The fans want to see a great Cristiano Ronaldo so I try to never disappoint.”

[Vermilion]

Break a leg fella.

[Reece]

Haha just heard them read some of that out on SSN. ****ing knob.

[Guest]

Doesn't surprise me to be honest. Just by looking at him you can feel he's full of himself. The last player to act like that (and justifiably so IMO) was Cantona. But Ronaldo doesn't possess half of the eloquence and intelligence that Cantona had.

[Roboklopp]

Cantona had a bit of a sense of humour about him tho.

[Leyton388]

HAHAHA What a complete bell end!

I like this bit

“It doesn't bother me. It's true lots of people hate me but there are even more who love me and who support me. I feel bad only when I play badly. Fortunately, that happens rarely

Yeah just in big games like the CL final!

I hope Puyol brakes the ****ers leg next season!

IMO There are atleast 3 or 4 players in world football who are better than this self obsessed asshole

1 Messi
2 Kaka
3 Gerrard
4 Nando

[Stanbull]

Real Madrid are wanting their £80m back from united after they discovered Primark were selling big girls blouses for just £4