his ego is massive and his heart is not in the club.

his ego is massive and his heart is not in the club......let him go,we will survive....funnily enough we have in the past.

I agree.

Also glad that if we're doing it we pull the plug and get it done. Don't want to be hanging about all Summer and have to buy Robbie keane in late August for 20 mill cause he's all thats left

,Rafa has gutted the club from top to bottom since he signed his new contract and for the first time since he came we have a focal point to either blame of praise..

We were in exactly the same situation,deadline looming and both owners wanting to sell up for silly money and selling your top assets isn't the best way to get the return on the club now is it?

You're like a fart in a spacesuit,comical but annoyingly unpleasant.

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.

im waiting fro fergies comments, because im not convinced this is his decision.

But besides that, bad business for united, cud of and shud of got more from madrid, cos lets face it there mugs. £100million for example. and add to tha a few players, VDV for 1. But if we get Villa....or a striker of his status, maybe even RVN at bargain price Ribrary and 1 midfield hardman to give our midfield that strength it lacked a little we will be orite.

still, as i say, lets see what fergie has to say on the matter.

ps, bid for messi haha,

ronnie wanted to stay..........right up until the champions league final i think. seems like a paddy on his part.

VDS/Foster
Raphael Rio Vidic Evra
Ribrary Carrick Anderson/Hardman signing Tosic
Rooney
Berba/Villa or whoever

oh how wrong you are.

seeing as your in a worse position than us financially....dont let our larger debt make you think your not, our clubs worth much much more than yours for starters as are all our assets and our income is far bigger, our debts easily managable...if we wer to bid, say 30million+ your club would have little choice but to accept...so yeh, if united wanted torres we could pretty much be sure of getting him..dont kid yourselves with the idea he will never leave liverpool...because unfortunately for you lot, he has already said he will leave if you dont start winning.

ahhhh, now how funny would that be.

united will replace ronaldo, in time....liverpool took a long long time to replace owen when he left...

if man utd have to sell, then be certain liverpool will, your a far smaller club than us.

what if no1 comes in to save your bacon? yep, goodbye torres, goodbye alonso, goodbye gerrard er.....yeh thats your good players in your squad, rest would fetch 30 million combined maybe 40...

so get out of dreamland will ya.

and skamp, please do 'try' to show how we are in the same situation.....because it will be funny to see what you come up with bar the fact both our owners are american.

Capello said of Roooney's recent england scoring form. "The reason he's scoring now is quite simple, I told him to stand infront of the goal".

If Man utd were to addopt such tactics, expect him to get 25 a season or more.

and real took ronaldo eh....course they did....i mean 80million, bargain they got. we could buy you entire squad for that lets be honest lmao

Chris, you talk a lot of rubbish

Real Madrid WILL play Utd next year champions league at some stage...Kaka and Ronaldo will do ya over

As for Utd getting 80mil for Ronny great deal for them but RM could of easily got him for around 60mil overpaid 20mil

Good riddance Cristiano Ronaldo the posing, faking diver - farewell the fantastic footballer

He was a diver. He was a poser. He was a faker. He was a primped up poodle, a dummy-spitter and a prima donna.

He was flash, he was vulgar, he was diva high maintenance, a fresh-flowers-in-my-hotel-room type of new-age footballer.

He was stretch limos and blacked-out windows, diamond-stud earrings and clothes with his name written on them. In case he forgot who he was. He sulked, he flirted, he pouted, he sat on his backside in protest if he didn’t get a free-kick. Like it was an offence against his divinity.

He was fickle, he was restless, he was rootless, he was rude. He turned his back on his manager when he had the temerity to substitute him.
And when he winked at the Portugal bench after Wayne Rooney had been sent off in the 2006 World Cup, it was as if we had looked through a window into his soul.

There was no Eric Cantona warmth about him. He was not a vulnerable man. Not a football philosopher. Not a man who played with joie de vivre.

But, damn, Cristiano Ronaldo was good. It might have been hard to like him but it was harder still not to admire him.

Because for all his faults and his foibles, he established beyond doubt during his Manchester United years that he was the best player in the world.

What a player he was. He was Frank Lampard, Fernando Torres and Ryan Giggs rolled into one.

A goalscoring midfielder, a classic centre-forward and a wizard of dribble. A man built to terrorise defences.

Do you remember the towering header he scored against Roma in the Champions League quarter-final back in April 2008? The height he reached with his leap, the way he brushed the defenders aside, the bravery of his commitment: Alan Shearer would have been proud of it.

He was magnificent to watch. Even last season, when he was sulking about not getting his move to Real Madrid the previous summer, he was wonderful.

The goal he scored against FC Porto in Portugal was the goal of the season. His one-man demolition of Arsenal in the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals was one of the performances of the season.

He really was the player who had everything. And even if Lionel Messi had the last laugh when Barcelona beat United in Rome last month, Ronaldo is still the best player on the planet.

It’s easier to like Messi, easier to warm to his humility than to Ronaldo’s strutting arrogance.

But that obscures the fact that Ronaldo is the harder man to play against.

The day before the Champions League final, one of the best defenders the world has ever seen, Marcel Desailly, told me Ronaldo, not Messi, would have been his worst nightmare.

Unpredictable, powerful, good in the air, lightning fast, an explosive shooter, a fine crosser, a dead-ball expert: there was nothing he couldn’t do.

United will not miss his attitude. Nor will they regret the absence of his posturing and his selfishness.

But even if Sir Alex Ferguson is allowed to invest all the £80m from his sale in the purchase of new players, United will be a poorer team without Ronaldo.

The sad thing is that Ronaldo will almost certainly be a poorer player without United, too. At Old Trafford, he had men like Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez who were willing to run themselves into the ground for the team and leave the glory to Ronaldo.

The attacking part of the team was built around him. Others made sacrifices. He reaped the rewards.

Despite all that, he has agitated for a move to Madrid like a little boy tugging at his mummy’s sleeve and whining and whimpering until he gets what he wants.

Well, now he’s got his wish and so to Ronaldo the footballer, we say ‘good luck in your new adventure’. But to Ronaldo the man consumed by narcissism and hubris, we say grow up and good riddance.

man utd should buy me. i can do 8 keepy uppies

Tough luck for us but nobody smart would refuge such an offer. Looking forward to seeing the real Real next year.Last year i couldn`t recognize a lot of their players lol and that`s bad when your name is Real Madrid. Only top players should be allowed mixed with young talents. what an offense lol robben(if he stays and is healthy),kaka(the guy who alone owned united in CHL a few years back),ruud van nistelrooy(who should come back soon),raul(the heart of the team and he has returned to his old self ),Ronaldo (officially the greatest player in the world) and david villa(who is expected). And then you have snejder who still is waiting to shine.
As for united i agree we should get benzema and Ribery.But if we don`t get top players a s such we will be screwed next year.

All on one straight leg eh jacky

man utd should buy me. i can do 8 keepy uppies

uncle wattie already knows about my talent. just cant afford me.

looks like maybe real madrid wont sign david villa now. good

Maybe, just maybe United can get both Villa and Silva. They might be more inclined to move abroad if they both went to the same club

Apparently, the 27-year-old has informed close friends that he would only consider swapping Spain for England if he were to link up with fellow countrymen Rafa Benitez and Fernando Torres.

Valencia would snap your hands off if you offered £70m but that would only be half the battle.

30/35m would get Villa i reckon and 20/25 for Silva i personally don't think Silva could hack in overhere he's smaller than Yossi ffs.

Yeah, just like Juniniho couldn't and Arshavin can't. Size matters not if you've good enough England often get left behind in international stakes because if players like messi and those too come along, they are told they are "too small". The sooner we move away from thinking, I think the better we might become on the world stage. at least we could give him a chance, we could always sell him back to a Spanish club Fergie tried to buy him last year, so he doesn't seem to think his size would be an issue.

but would be happy to be proved wrong so long as he isn't playing for you lot

Gives me a hard on that,just a shame we don't have a pot to piss in.

Liverpool vs Russia. Was some game

£80mill in one lump sum.............watch every players price that United are linked to go up £10mill now

...we should have had an agreement to keep the price tag quiet for a while...

...right now the valuation some clubs are putting on their players is frankly fucking ridiculous...