Summer Transfer Window 2017/18 - Rumours & Signings

He is clearly talented sure, but it's just the sums I think is mad, 100k as a 18 year old? And not to forget how he always been saying he is such a huge Milan-fan and never thought about playing somewhere else even when he was a youngster etc.
 
It'd be great if he came back, unreal striker and will be for a few more seasons yet.

Doubt he'll leave though, not sure what's going on.
 
I guess that would mean admitting guilt which probably isn't great for image. Not that an ongoing saga is great either... meh
 
With the relationship between Utd and Real at the mmoment, CR wont be coming to Utd even IF he does leave RM

I just hope he doesnt go to City or Chelsea (I would hope he would refuse given his past with Utd), which really only leaves PSG - cant see Bayern wanting / needing to pay £350m for wages and transfer even for CR - and cant see him even contemplating China.

With that transfer and wages package (if the headlines are true) I cant see the MLS being realistic either. Would CR want to go to PSG....surely its an even more unbalanced league than in Spain....if Monaco continue to sell their players they will be a (even more so) wealthy club but not sure they will put in a sustained challange again so it may well be a PSG walkover (again).


Not sure if any report has mentioned it - but the other thing is that even if / when CR leaves Spain, the court case will continue anyway. So he either pays up or fights it no matter where he plays. So surely he is cutting off his nose to spite his face either way. Its not like the case will go away if he leaves.
 
The Running Man said:
Reported 150 million for someone already in decline, might get two seasons out of him. And he won't be playing osasuna every other week. While he is effective right now he's not cost effective.
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In decline yet was critical in winning 3 of the last four CLs, critical in winning the league, critical in winning the Euro's... but on decline. Wow, also too much spectacle for the currently best player in the world. Because you know, if you bought a different 'best player in the world' that player would obviously not come with any spectacle at all, as we know the best players around mostly go unnoticed without any fanfare, but Ronaldo is just a media whore so gets 50 times more attention than other great players did.

If you bought Ronaldo in his current form he'd be the best player the league ever saw, and he'd likely be the best player in the league for the next 4-5 years.
 
He's 31 now. While in his current form he'd be an asset to any team, for the amount he would cost, and how long he'd be effective for, two, maybe three seasons, and as players get older they become more prone to injury and take longer to recover, it would still be a big gamble.
 
MissChief said:
He's 31 now. While in his current form he'd be an asset to any team, for the amount he would cost, and how long he'd be effective for, two, maybe three seasons, and as players get older they become more prone to injury and take longer to recover, it would still be a big gamble.
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Most do, a lot don't, in common with those who don't are the ones who are in best fitness and take the best care of themselves. Giggs, Buffon, Totti and Ronaldo fits in with them. What is key with those players in particular is how professionally they took their training from a young age, always being fit. Players who mess around with fitness till late 20s before trying to take it more seriously still do worse.

I see no reason to believe he is more likely to get injured than any other player and no reason to believe he'll only be good for another 2 or 3 seasons. Could he decline, sure, so sell him. Unlike Rooney who hasn't really been considered a star outside of England with very little international appeal, Ronaldo could play 5 years for Utd, get sold for 30mil to a MLS or Chinese team and still be a monumentally profitable star in terms of sponsorship. Wherever he goes he's mobbed, his commercial value will sustain long beyond the next few years.

Likewise, a bigger transfer fee can be offset by increased sponsorship deals and even more so the likelyhood of both doing better straight away in the CL with a player such as him and doing immediately better in the league.

150mil but he's the difference between going out at r16 and going out at semi final would be 10mil right there, difference between 3rd and 1st in the league, no direct income from tv money itself, but increased bonuses from sponsors and ability to negotiate for better deals as back to being champions, maybe 20-30mil in the shorter term again.

Yeah he'd cost a lot, but the payback would be immense, there is literally no better player you can buy right now and unlike the average 31 year old, his commercial value will maintain his transfer value many years longer than the average player.

Fact is you can buy Mbappe for £120mil and he breaks both legs in his first season never becoming a top player afterwards.
 
Ronaldo threatening to leave Spain over accusations of tax dodging, as if he'll leave he's just throwing his toys out of the pram to get the case dropped.
 
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