Wednesday 23 July 2008

Ronaldo - a Devil or King Next Season?

Marca has done it's job, CR7 missed the penalty that should have made him stratospheric, Calderon and Schuster have played their part and so have Robinho, Heinze etc. Fergie has said what he has had to say, Queiroz, Dennis Law, Becks, Mourinho, Capello, etc. The question remains, is CR7 going to remain a Red Devil next season or will be go to the Royal Club despite the era of the galacticos being bygone?

In this posting, I am not looking at whether he wil be treated as a Devil or a King when the season starts. But whether he will be at Madrid or not.

CR7 wants money and glamour and he is being greedy at both. Felipe had to issue a ban for media announcements from him in the Portugal camp as he was disturbing peace there. He is going the Beckham way where he is becoming too big for himself and he is just fueling this talk so
that he either gets a good deal with Man Utd to be the highest paid at Man Utd (which he deserves) and maybe even hold up to be the highest paid in the world (which he doesn't deserve yet even if he gets the ballon d'Or and the FIFA 1 Award.)

Portugal was being watched by 12 000 people who paid to watch them train and they are the only team to charge for training. Mostly this is because of CR7; it happened with Becks with Man Utd, England and Madrid. Their (Portugal) last two trainng sessions were behind closed doors to keep away the hundreds of paparazzi and adoring fans.

Back to the young man, he will stay. He has said he will stay so long as Fergie is there. But I have said it a number of times, the winner if he moves are the clubs and he will be the loser because he is not going to command the attention he gets at Man Utd. There is Guti and Raul at the Royal Club and those two are royalty there. Ronaldo will have to come down the pecking order ala Becks. Becks is even better at handling problems . . look at how he handled Capello at Madrid. He came out the victor with capello losing his job for handling the affair badly.

Ronaldo cannot even handle the refs' decisions that go against him.

He will stay because Man Utd will not sell even at 120 million pounds. This is because business wise, Madrid would benefit, not with all the image rights and sells etc. Further, Man Utd wants to be seen as the top dog, they have previously sold to Madrid players they didn't feel they needed like Becks, Heinze and Ruud but they will not sell their most-prized possession (aside of Fergie, Old Trafford, the trademark and Balance Sheet).

The scenario is either

1. CR7 will say something silly and he either gets sold to another Team like Barca in exchange for Messi or cash but not Madrid or he is shunted into the reserves like other players have been treated in the past. He may even be allowed to play in the team after being told he is not being sold but the backlash from the fans would be so bad he would lose his glamour and form. But he would never go to madrid this year. We all remember how Heinze never went to Liverpool. Fergie is stubborn and likes winnng both on and off the pitch and so he would love to win over CR7 and his agents. Or
2. CR7 asks for payrise gets it but does it so nicely the fans still like him. This would make him one of the highest paid players in the world which he derserves. This scenario I expect despite David Gill and Fergie so salary increase shall be entertained.

Fergie is not joking by saying he could stick CR7 in the stands just to prove a point alongside the Glazers. he knows letting Ronaldo go just like that may pave way for Rooney, Rio and Tevez among others to move whenever they want.

It is a different kettle of fish when Fergie leaves in 2010 as he announced.

Ronaldo has been told by Beckham, Pele, Queiroz, Capello, Dennis Law and others to stay but Scolari and others tell him to move on. As for me and my house, we know CR7 will be at Old Trafford next season but he is unlikely to be my favourite player ever again. I am really ashamed of his behaviour.

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