Real offer £80m for Ronaldo, World Record
Manchester United have allowed talks between Real Madrid and Cristiano Ronaldo.
From ManUtd.com:
Manchester United have received a world-record, unconditional offer of £80million 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. The club will not comment until further notice.
Looks like the inevitable is happening. I always had a feeling about it. The only thing that eased my mind was when SAF said “I wouldn’t sell that mob(Madrid) a virus.” I think it’s going to be interesting to see where United go from here. Ronaldo, albeit a fussy one, will leave the Red Devils with a huge gap on the wing. I think he’s done his job here, honestly. Being with United for over 5 seasons and he’s won his share of trophies playing for United. Accolades will still come to the young man, 24, and surely he will still shine in La Liga. We shall see. I said it last year, let him go if he want’s to go. I’d rather have players on the team that want to be on the team, than a superstar who doesn’t. But in all fairness, Ronaldo has done things with Manchester United that no one else will do for a long time, respectively. And for that, I say congratulations Ronaldo. Everyone get’s what they want(ed).
Manchester United have already cashed in and sold Fraizer Campbell for, I think, £6m. And they are almost on the oust with Tevez looking more and more like going to City. It makes you wonder if United are trying to get as much money as they can to bring in, perhaps Benzema from Lyon and Ribery from Munich. United are also looking at Valencia from Wigan.
June 11, 2009 at 7:26 pm
campbell just has “one or two things to take care of at united” before signing with hull but it looks a done deal, I really hope SAF has already began talks with the likes of benzema and can determine a deal with tevez if it doesnt look likely to get benzema. It feels like Ribery is a must buy to sure up the right midfield but it is looking all too unlikely that he will make a move to EPL, and bayern are trying to put a 87mil pricetag on him which is unreal. Im not sure nani is ready for a starting position, but i think ando can fill in nicely on the right wing if we were to pull in valencia leaving nani to come off the bench for anderson. But with the money we made from this season expect a couple of big name signings (benzema? tevez? valencia?) but since we are talking about SAF, i would not be surprised if the valencia rumors were just to throw everyone off and he finds a future superstar to bring in ala portugal, brazil, holland. Since the preseason officially kicks off in 5 weeks, expect a lot of small signings and a couple of big ones.