So tell me guys whats your opinion of him staying on for another season?
I read this article in the Sun today and I think the writer pretty much nailed what most United fans are thinking.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle1529510.ece
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WELL, hallelujah!
Let’s get something straight right from the off, Cristiano.
It was never your decision in the first place.
Alex Ferguson decided last year — when he handed you a new contract to send your wages soaring — that you were most definitely staying at Manchester United.
He and the club had also made that clear through a tortuous summer of stories being batted back and forth between here and Madrid.
So who on earth do you think you are? To imagine that after two good seasons in five years at Old Trafford you can stand there believing you have your and the club’s destiny in your hands.
Your words in a ‘heart-rending’ interview in a Portuguese paper yesterday stuck in the throat.
First of all you say: “If there’s one thing I’ve never been — nor do I want to be — it is ungrateful.”
Now, hang on. So Ferguson takes you to the biggest club in the world, converts you from a one-trick pony into the greatest player in the world, then you repay him by announcing you want to quit Old Trafford. Not ungrateful?
You added: “I never wanted to leave against United’s will.”
It was clear from the off United never wanted you to leave yet you led them this merry dance until realising the game was up.
So it goes on. Your commitment to the club is obvious because you have bought a big house in Alderley Edge. You were having that built at the start of the year.
Ferguson has — as ever — tried to defend you, despite this summer of madness. His best defence was that your head was turned by the money on offer.
But then you say “. . . money isn’t everything” and add that if it was it would have been easy to stay at United.
You drivel on about what a special place United fans will always have in your heart.
Well, you might get a bit of a shock the next time you trot out at Old Trafford.
Because living in this great city I know exactly what the red half thinks of your winking antics since the European Cup was lifted.
Many United supporters are fed up with you, Ronaldo. Many wanted United just to take the cash, re-invest it and move on.
Because United fans are not brought up on fly-by-night big-time Charlies. They are brought up on legends who devote themselves heart and soul to this club. They are brought up on the stories of the Busby Babes.
And of course more recently of great servants like Roy Keane and those still plying their trade — like Paul Scholes, Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs.
Which is why there has been no popping of champagne corks.
The view of many was ‘Good — but he should never have tried to leave in the first place’.
The situation can be seen as a victory for Ferguson and for clubs against the increasing strength of player power.
Yet I wonder if we will see the real Ronaldo again in a red shirt.
Let us not forget all this is likely to start again in a year’s time.
For, while saying you are staying, you also made it very clear you wanted to go to Real Madrid and still do.
So, with that in mind, how can you really commit yourself to the United cause? After two titles and a European Cup you claimed that in five years at the club you had won everything there was to win. You tack on, of course, your host of personal honours.
Can you imagine someone like Keane or Neville saying this?
Or Giggs, who has 10 title medals and so many others that he needs a reinforced sideboard to hold them all?
The reason United have been so dominant in the last 15 years is because players like them won a medal and immediately forgot about it, setting their sights on the next target.
Keane was the heartbeat of this club for a decade. A United hero.
The club thought he could not be replaced but Ferguson has found a way of rejigging the team to fill the void left by the Irishman. Because no matter how good the players are, Fergie always finds a way to replace them.
He only lets players go if he thinks it is best for the club.
And he has kept you only because he thinks it is best for the club.
Not for him or you — but the club.
Privately he probably wants to stick you in the stand.
You whine: “The Press writes terrible things about me.”
So terrible you were pictured reading it all as your ego forced you on to the pages of this and other papers this summer.
Like the fans, the Press who cover this club are brought up watching legends.
And, Ronaldo, you will never be one of them.
I read this article in the Sun today and I think the writer pretty much nailed what most United fans are thinking.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle1529510.ece
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WELL, hallelujah!
Let’s get something straight right from the off, Cristiano.
It was never your decision in the first place.
Alex Ferguson decided last year — when he handed you a new contract to send your wages soaring — that you were most definitely staying at Manchester United.
He and the club had also made that clear through a tortuous summer of stories being batted back and forth between here and Madrid.
So who on earth do you think you are? To imagine that after two good seasons in five years at Old Trafford you can stand there believing you have your and the club’s destiny in your hands.
Your words in a ‘heart-rending’ interview in a Portuguese paper yesterday stuck in the throat.
First of all you say: “If there’s one thing I’ve never been — nor do I want to be — it is ungrateful.”
Now, hang on. So Ferguson takes you to the biggest club in the world, converts you from a one-trick pony into the greatest player in the world, then you repay him by announcing you want to quit Old Trafford. Not ungrateful?
You added: “I never wanted to leave against United’s will.”
It was clear from the off United never wanted you to leave yet you led them this merry dance until realising the game was up.
So it goes on. Your commitment to the club is obvious because you have bought a big house in Alderley Edge. You were having that built at the start of the year.
Ferguson has — as ever — tried to defend you, despite this summer of madness. His best defence was that your head was turned by the money on offer.
But then you say “. . . money isn’t everything” and add that if it was it would have been easy to stay at United.
You drivel on about what a special place United fans will always have in your heart.
Well, you might get a bit of a shock the next time you trot out at Old Trafford.
Because living in this great city I know exactly what the red half thinks of your winking antics since the European Cup was lifted.
Many United supporters are fed up with you, Ronaldo. Many wanted United just to take the cash, re-invest it and move on.
Because United fans are not brought up on fly-by-night big-time Charlies. They are brought up on legends who devote themselves heart and soul to this club. They are brought up on the stories of the Busby Babes.
And of course more recently of great servants like Roy Keane and those still plying their trade — like Paul Scholes, Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs.
Which is why there has been no popping of champagne corks.
The view of many was ‘Good — but he should never have tried to leave in the first place’.
The situation can be seen as a victory for Ferguson and for clubs against the increasing strength of player power.
Yet I wonder if we will see the real Ronaldo again in a red shirt.
Let us not forget all this is likely to start again in a year’s time.
For, while saying you are staying, you also made it very clear you wanted to go to Real Madrid and still do.
So, with that in mind, how can you really commit yourself to the United cause? After two titles and a European Cup you claimed that in five years at the club you had won everything there was to win. You tack on, of course, your host of personal honours.
Can you imagine someone like Keane or Neville saying this?
Or Giggs, who has 10 title medals and so many others that he needs a reinforced sideboard to hold them all?
The reason United have been so dominant in the last 15 years is because players like them won a medal and immediately forgot about it, setting their sights on the next target.
Keane was the heartbeat of this club for a decade. A United hero.
The club thought he could not be replaced but Ferguson has found a way of rejigging the team to fill the void left by the Irishman. Because no matter how good the players are, Fergie always finds a way to replace them.
He only lets players go if he thinks it is best for the club.
And he has kept you only because he thinks it is best for the club.
Not for him or you — but the club.
Privately he probably wants to stick you in the stand.
You whine: “The Press writes terrible things about me.”
So terrible you were pictured reading it all as your ego forced you on to the pages of this and other papers this summer.
Like the fans, the Press who cover this club are brought up watching legends.
And, Ronaldo, you will never be one of them.
