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BREAKING NEWS: Manchester United accept £80m Ronaldo bid
Elano:
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--- Quote from: es-jay on June 12, 2009, 03:31:11 AM ---has anyone talked to a Manchester United fan about this? all i'm hearing is good riddance, we woulda won the title without him, think who we can buy with £80 million. however, if you even suggested a move away from United a couple of months ago these same people would jump down your throat... hmmmm.
Real Madrid will more than likely fail next season. They need to work the summer hard creating a strong team. it's been said many times above but, big names don't win shit.
--- Quote from: The Krasnoe Dinamo on June 12, 2009, 01:24:51 AM ---I was talkin about the diarra from LYON not the one from chelsea and arsenal ::)
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Mahamadou Diarra won't be playing for a while. he was de-registered by Madrid last season. Lassana took his number, and has been playing in his position.
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i've heard that m.diarra is about to comeback,i don't know....
anyway,you are too sure that madrid will fail next season,perez is not an idiot like calderon (take a look @ what real won with perez as a president).
like i've said before,the campaing is not over yet.....
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i wait for him to prove me wrong.
in his first outing as Real president, he had a great manager in charge who moulded the stars into a team. how did his first era end? he fired the manager del Bosque, sold Makelele (over wages) and failed to win a trophy.
we've all been saying he needs to buy a defensive player, or even several. if you know anything about Florentino Pérez you will know that unless his attitude has changed, he won't.
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you know....there's always a reason when something ends.
you should ask to real supporters if they are happy now with florentino back as a president,i think that we can't criticize too much his first "era"...he will not be remembered as a loser.
we are in june now,for the end of the summer the new real will have a fantastic team,believe me (perez knows that barcelona is the best team in the world now,and he can't compete with kaka and ronaldo)
Lunatic:
Lol at Man Utd fans saying good riddance...he is easily your best player ::)
this is a major, major blow
Elano:
Sir Alex Ferguson has put together a list of potential summer transfer targets as he tries to fill the enormous void created by the imminent £80m transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid and the prospect of Carlos Tevez following the world footballer of the year out of Old Trafford.
Manchester United's first response to sanctioning Ronaldo's departure will be to follow up their interest in Luis Antonio Valencia and offer around £17m to Wigan Athletic. Ferguson is also an admirer of Karim Benzema and will investigate the cost of signing the France striker from Lyon, particularly if Tevez goes through with his threat to leave. Jean Michel Aulas, the Lyon president, has stated that Benzema will not leave for less than €80m (£68m), but it is thought the French club would actually sell for half that amount.
United are also monitoring Franck Ribéry's availability, although the Bayern Munich player would prefer to move to Spain and, with the Valencia striker David Villa, is another target for Madrid in what is shaping up to be the most remarkable period of transfer spending in history.
Having already signed Kaka from Milan for £59m, the capture of Ronaldo will be the culmination of 18 months of strategic planning on the part of Madrid and the player. The club expect Ronaldo to arrive in Spain "in the next few days" and the deal will be concluded as soon as he has passed his medical examination. His salary was agreed almost a year ago, when Madrid put the deal in place. Ronaldo will earn a flat wage of £6.8m a year plus substantial add-ons and image-rights payments.
"This is very flattering for me," Ronaldo said last night. "The fact that two of the world's greatest teams want to trade me is not something that happens every day."
Ronaldo, currently on holiday in Los Angeles, also confirmed that a doctor from Madrid had examined the groin injury that has been troubling him. "Everyone wants to see and test your product or future product," he explained. "It does not require an operation."
The announcement from Old Trafford yesterday represents a devastating blow for the Premier League champions and is the news their supporters have been dreading ever since Ronaldo began talking openly of his "dream" to join Madrid. He tried to force through a transfer this time last year. Ferguson persuaded him to stay at Old Trafford for another year but Ronaldo made it clear that it would be his final season with the club.
His agent, Jorge Mendes, worked out a deal with all the relevant people as long ago as last September, writing in various pledges and confidentiality clauses.
"Let's just say that everyone involved in the operation agreed to do it this season," Ramón Calderón, Madrid's president at that time, said last night. "That is what I can say. Last season United decided not to do it because they thought it was too early and instead everyone agreed to do it this season. He [Ronaldo] wanted to come, he said that many times. It's OK for Real Madrid and also for Manchester United, who will get a lot of money."
United's official stance was that Ronaldo would not be allowed to leave, something the club's chief executive, David Gill, repeated as recently as two weeks ago. Ferguson went even further in his own denials, declaring last December that he would not sell "that mob a virus".
Instead, the deal was tied up in a 15-minute telephone call on Wednesday, when Madrid's new president, Florentino Pérez, contacted Gill to tell him the money was in place. Mendes had already let United know his client still wanted to leave and Gill interrupted Ferguson's holiday in France to inform him. The club released the news in a statement: "Manchester United have received a world-record, unconditional offer of £80m for Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid. At the request of Cristiano - who has again expressed his desire to leave - and after discussion with the player's representatives, United have agreed to give Real Madrid permission to talk to the player. Matters are expected to be concluded by 30 June."
That leaves Ferguson with the task of replacing the potentially irreplaceable but his priority will be to persuade Tevez, a free agent from 30 June, to resist Manchester City's offer of a huge pay rise and a regular first-team place. Tevez has become disillusioned about the way he perceives he has been treated at Old Trafford, but Ferguson has broken off from his holiday on several occasions over the last week to contact the Argentina striker. Nonetheless, Tevez is aware that United are trying to sign Valencia and has not received any assurances about playing more regularly if he were to stay.
Uefa's president, Michel Platini, last night described the bid for Ronaldo as "excessive", adding: "It is very puzzling at a time when football faces some of its worst ever financial challenges. These transfers are a serious challenge to the idea of fair play."
Makaveli's Food & Liquor:
This was expected tbh EVERYONES been going on about this whole pre-agreement (which i dont understand how its at all legal) the only thing which surprises me about this whole situation is how dumb united have been, every club now knows they've got 80 mill to splash so anyone who they try to buy is just gonna bump up the price, i woulda thought they would have signed (made a agreement at least) a replacement then of let this deal go through, for madrid this is a MASSIVE signing but they are still gonna be shit. when will they understand that a good football team is consistent from defense to attack, bar casillas (whos the best GK in the world) their defense fucking sucks, i cant wait for next season though, CR/Kaka/ maybe Villa? gonna be great to watch
Elano:
--- Quote from: Something WyKiD This Way Comes on June 12, 2009, 01:04:13 AM ---80M euros for how long? one year or what?
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he will sign a 5 years contract
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