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The Ronaldo saga …

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

RonaldoOver the summer the Ronaldo saga went on and on. Would he stay at United, go to Real Madrid. It went on and on and everyone was sick/bored of the whole thing.

In the end Ronaldo stayed and was staying for what would properly be till the end of the season. A few days ago, Real Madrid president said that their pursuit of Ronaldo was “completely over”.

In the news today Ronaldo has said he made the right decision rejecting the move to Real and expected to stay beyond the end of the season.

“Now I understand I made the best decision,” Ronaldo told Spanish sports paper Marca. “I am with Manchester in body and soul”.

“I want to respect the club, my colleagues and the fans and don’t want to talk about other teams at present.”

Lets see if he is saying the the same thing at the end of the season!!!

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Premier League action

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

RooneyUnited beat West Brom 4-0 and Rooney continued his great form. Goals from Rooney, Ronaldo, Berbatov and Nani. Berbatov was abit quiet in the first half but was more livelyt in 2nd half. Ronaldo seems be getting back to his old self. Seems to be “falling” abit theatrically though – like Ronaldo cira 2004 ish. Rooney had a first goal disallowed and the ref thought he pushed the defender. Harsh decision and it was a great goal!

There was another Liverpool comeback. Went behind after an error by Liverpool but ended up winning 3-2.
Good game with good goals against Wigan – Wigan unlucky to lose. Another good game from Zaki and 2 goals from him.

Chelsea won 5-0 and that was without 7 first team players. Shows the strength in the squad. They arguably should have won by more. Terry was magically fit after being “injured” and not able to play for England on Wednesday. Boro were very poor and Chelsea destroyed them in the 2nd half.

Arsenal game. They went behind but ended up winning 3-1. It was the first game also for Silvestre – the former United player. All changed for Arsenal it seemed when Walcott came on at half time.

Another good week in the fantasy football again with about 71 points.

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Hes staying “for at least another year”

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

RonaldoWell its finally come straight from the horse’s mouth. According to Portuguese newspaper Publico, Ronaldo said he is staying. He said “”Sir Alex Ferguson heard my arguments, I heard his and, in fact, it was settled that the best for both parties would be for me to stay”. “I can confirm that, next season, I will play for Manchester United.”

That looks like the saga finally over until next summer when it will start over again. If everything in the paper is true there are some good quotes from him.

“Before rumours emerge saying that I will play against my will, I want to make this clear – whoever says or writes that is lying,”

“I will play for Manchester with all my heart and soul. I will fight and honour that shirt with the same commitment and dedication as always.”

“I was responsible for all this controversy”. “I was the one who publicly expressed my desire to go to Real Madrid. I ended up being, even involuntarily, responsible for the poor relationship between the two clubs.”

Who knows what may happen next season. Real Madrid could have a terrible season, United win the double (or treble) again. If reports are to be believed the Real Madrid players didnt exactly seem to keen on playing alongside him for various reasons. (Also Real have just signed the player Van Der Vart).

You can read Ronaldo’s full interview on the Manchester Evening News web site.

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Hes staying … for now anyway

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Sir Alex Ferguson has met up with Ronaldo in Lisbon last week. He said “It went well. We put across our points of view, where we stand and where the player stands”. “I can say he’ll be a Manchester United player next season. He won’t be sold.”

This will hopefully end the speculation about his future. Maybe only till the transfer window opens up again in January!! As long as he plays well for United it will be good. We will have to see. It will be October when he comes back after his ankle operation.

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D’oh!!! Carlos is gone :(

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Carlos Queiroz, United’s coach and Fergie’s right hand man has been appointed as manager of the Portugal national football team. He has signed a contract worth apparentally £1.5m.

Carlos was a big part of how United play recently and was important in the signings of various players (who played in Portugal) i.e. Ronaldo, Nani and Anderson. These 3 (or maybe 2!) are a big part of the future of United.

Does this mean Ronaldo is even less likely to stay??? Or maybe Carlos can tell him all out Real Madrid and why its not right for him. Carlos was manager for a year a couple years or so ago and it wasnt really a success.

In some other Ronaldo news its been all in the news about what Sepp Blatter (idiot!) said about Ronaldo and footballers and how they are “modern day slaves”. How can a footballer earning about £120,000 be called a slave. Its a very poor choice of words and other ppl in FIFA and in other football associations are saying the same. Apparently Ronaldo has agreed with Blatter?!?! (There is an article with various quotes and he had the chance to clarify what he meant etc but he didnt. However it was in The Sun so who knows how true it is???).  Football is the only world where a contract really means nothing!! Ronaldo for example has about 4 years left in his. The way Blatter is saying it is pretty much saying contracts are pointless (which to be honest we already know!!!).

Blatter (along with Platini) just dont seem to like English football.

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