Posts Tagged ‘ronaldo’

Whats happening at United!!!?

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Its not been the best summer at United. Who’d of thought it after one of the best seasons winning the Premier League and Champions League and having the best player in the world in Ronaldo (and along the way scoring 42 goals in one season).

Since then, there has been the whole Ronaldo saga “will he wont he leave”. I dont need to go on about it as everything is bored of it all!! Also the next “wonderkid” Aaron Ramsey was signed by Arsenal - he was apparently signed by United and it was even on the official United web site saying it was just a matter of signing paperwork (or something like that). Anyway he ended up at Arsenal (may be the best team for him since Wenger has good reputation with getting most out of young players etc and at United not sure how much first team action he would get and we already have players like Anderson and Nani). It seems that one big factor was Wenger actually going to see Ramsey and meet in person when United just sent Gary Neville.

It now seems like Carlos Quieroz (United’s coach) will be leaving and become Portugal manager. He is a big part of the United management and has become a father figure for Ronaldo (with the whole Portugal connection). Also he takes control of a lot of the training sessions and apparently Fergie leaves a lot of it to Carlos.

Euro 2008!!

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Well the Euros have started and most of the teams have played. After tomorrow we will have seen all the teams play.

Before the tournament started I had “picked a team”. Since England are not in (RUBBISH!!!:( ) loads of people seem to have chosen a team with different reasons. I decided to support Portugal because of Ronaldo. Best player in the world, favourite United player etc etc. However Ronaldo’s future is very uncertain and he has not committed himself to United at all. If he really wanted to stay he would release some official statement saying he wanted to stay at United etc. However he has not said anything and will not say anything until after Euro 2008. (Apparently he is not answering Fergie’s phone calls). Amazingly I agree with Ian Wright – I like Ronaldo the player, not really the person – in some ways. Also Portugal generally dive all over the place!

For that reason I may follow Holland. They play great football and there is a United connection with Van der Sar. (Also they played rather well tonight against Italy!!!). (I also quite like Spain – I think Torres is excellent and David Villa is a brilliant player – I wish United signed him!! They also play in red like United!!). Also they are abit like England in that they are known as under-archiving in major competitions. Hmmm….. who to support….. I am leaning more towards Holland (Dark horses will be Croatia I think).

Anyway, back to the actual football. Until the game between Holland and Italy they tournament had not really kicked off but it has now – they beat Italy 3-0 with 2 great goals! Portugal were pretty good as were Germany. France this afternoon were rather poor in a boring boring match against Romania.

If you miss any of the matches they are all going to be on the excellent BBC iPlayer. Also its worth checking out the BBC Sport Football site – loads of info/audio/videos. (Sounds like an advert this!!)