£135m for Cristiano Ronaldo

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problem is Ronaldo would never want to join Shitty and he's already loaded as it is.
 

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Exactly. City have a good youth system, that'll all go to shit when all the foreign players come in. What happens to players like Johnson, Sturridge and Ireland who have come through the youth system.

You don't just go out and buy a team full of stars and hope they gel. They'll have a team of mercenaries.

I'm surprised at Hughes going along with this. City was his chance to show how well he could do at building a team, with good financial backing yes, but a team of his own choice. He certainly didn't ask for Robinho did he? Once the owners start buying stars left right and centre all Hughes will be is a coach, not a manager. He won't be top of his club like Fergie.

Has watching us do things the right way not taught anyone anything.
Agree on this. If City go mental in January and have bids tabled for everyone we shold put in a bid for a few of their younger players. Johnson has looked excellent the times i've seen him
 

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Ronaldo pricetag: £150m

Ronaldo pricetag for Real, Pool, Chelsea, Arsenal: £300m

Ronaldo pricetag for City: £1000m
 

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Ronaldo pricetag: £150m

Ronaldo pricetag for Real, Pool, Chelsea, Arsenal: £300m

Ronaldo pricetag for City: £1000m
Hehe City will not be the worlds best team, thats for sure.

I can see you got a pricetag for Pool and Arsenal??? hehe
 

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Keep Roonie for one more season and except shitty bid (clause they don't go after players we want to sign), before using the money to buy the following :D

Messi
Aguero
Benzema


------------Benzema/Rooney
-------------Berb/Tevez

Nani/Giggs---Anderson/Scholes---Aguero/Messi
---------------Carrick/Harg

It would be tough, but i am sure we'd get over it :devil:
 

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Now aren't you all fecking greatful Utd was bought by some sane genuine businessmen who just want to run the club as a proper & profitable business instead of wrecking it with their fantasies ?
 

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I'd take it - brilliant offer if true, and it isnt like he's going to stay forever, is it?
 

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This is fecking crazy.

I can seriously see them making a £180-£200 million bid for him. Money seems no object and he is the number one star in the world right now.

There is no way in hell we would turn down a bid of that size.
People seem to be forgeting the obvious fact that Ronaldo would be unlikely to leave OT for anywhere other than Madrid.

A player can only spend so much cash - and Ronaldo will probably have more right now than he could ever spend. If he leaves he does so for the lifestyle in Spain and he history of Real Madrid.

The question really is whether the top players will go. It also makes it an interesting situation for a manager with the chairman choosing who signs.
 

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I just wonder if Ronaldo is now thinking that the PL is where its all happening, where all the best players are going to end up. Would he rather be a big fish in a small pond (la liga) or would his vanity compel him to stay and compete with the cream of his generation? Especially if they are on bigger money than Real could afford?
 

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I said before a few years ago about Chelski, that it matters feck all how much money they have, they can still only put 11 players out on the pitch at a time.
They will no doubt improve and will eventually win something but they wont have it all their own way, same as Chelski.
 

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Sheikh's £500m City dream team
Six of the best football players in the world are all targets of the multi-billionaire Arab sheikhs who have bought Manchester’s “second” club. The Blues have already captured Real Madrid’s Brazilian superstar Robinho for £32.5million. Now consortium frontman Dr Sulaiman Al Fahim says he is willing to pay £134million to wrest Cristiano Ronaldo away from arch-rivals Man United. City’s manager Mark Hughes has also been told he can bid £80million each for AC Milan’s Brazilian hitman Kaka and Barcelona's attacking midfielder Lionel Messi. Liverpool’s Spanish goal machine Fernando Torres and Arsenal playmaker Cesc Fabregas will be chased as soon as soccer’s next transfer window opens in January, with price tags of £70million and £60million respectively. And there will be a renewed bid of £60million for striker Dimitar Berbatov - who only signed for Man United on Monday night.

Just took this of Man Utd official site. Good God thats so serious money being mentioned.
 

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That team is so ridiculous. You wouldn't win one fecking thing with all of those players. Who the feck would do the dirty work? There is nice quote from Gary Neville from a thing on tv when he says "I'm not a superstar. I'm more like an average player. I like fighting for the team." That is almost true. He is a superstar in our eyes because we know the effort he put into his job on the pitch ALLOWING superstars to grow! They would be nothing if he and alot of other team players wouldn't be around.
 

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dunno it could work....

......Torres.....Berbatov......
Ronaldo...Kaka....Messi.......
...........Fabregas...............




..Defenders...hmmm..
errm Richards? Richard Dunne????

Don't know where you'd put Robinho?


Maybe they'd be allowed to put more players on the pitch in exchange for extra money / oil etc
 

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that money is actually ridiculous, no player on the planet is worth that much but seeing that ronaldo will be fecking off soon it would me nice to get that kind of cash for him. the only problem is that he wants to feck off and play for his dream club madrid and not shitty so therefore i dont see him going to shitty
 

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Problem with getting 135 million for Ronaldo is that selling clubs will instantly put up the prices of players they don't want to let go. Messi will instantly become 150 million and Aguero around 60-80 million.
 

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Lebron James said he would go to Greece to play professional basketball for 50m a year.
That's simply just talk. He's just trying to push the NBA to up their wage scale. And I doubt a club in Europe would pay him 50m per year. Leaving the NBA for Greece would be akin to leaving the Premiership for the Ligue 1. The elite players don't make that move in their prime.
 

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Problem with getting 135 million for Ronaldo is that selling clubs will instantly put up the prices of players they don't want to let go. Messi will instantly become 150 million and Aguero around 60-80 million.
Nail meet head :D Do they really think Fabregas/Torres/Insert superstart will go for 50m if they pay 130 for Ronaldo ?
 

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We'd be silly to turn it down.

Although that'd make us City's bitches.

Hmm...
Bitches, or rather we'd have just fleeced our fierce City rivals for far more money than the player is worth

I'm all for not selling to our major rivals, but when they're paying so far over the odds it makes their bid frankly laughable, I'd sell in a heart beat! He'd only be a meeting with Vidic away from being out for the season, £135million worth of physio employment! If their owners are so willing to toss money to us, they'd be my guess. Fergie could sign 4 or 5 top replacements with that kind of money if he wished
 

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Depend on Fergie,
if he can convince Ronaldo to stay forever I would tell Man Shity to forget, otherwise sell him for that money...soon or later he may leave for Real for half of this 135.
 

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Manchester City plan £135m bid for Cristiano Ronaldo


Manchester City's new billionaire owners are planning a world-record £135m bid for Cristiano Ronaldo in the January transfer window before turning their sights to, among others, Fernando Torres of Liverpool and Cesc Fábregas of Arsenal. "Ronaldo has said he wants to play for the biggest club in the world, so we will see in January if he is serious," said Dr Sulaiman Al-Fahim, of the Abu Dhabi United Group.

Al-Fahim also re-iterated that he would investigate the potential availability of the former Arsenal striker Thierry Henry, Valencia's David Villa and the former Brazil international Ronaldo to join Robinho in a "dream team" that would be able to challenge for the Champions League within two or three years.

However, he identified United's Ronaldo as the biggest challenge for the billionaire tycoons, backed by members of the United Arab Emirates royal family, who have taken control of the club from Thaksin Shinawatra. "Real Madrid were estimating his value at $160m (£90m) but for a player like that, to actually get him, will cost a lot more; I would think $240m (£135m). But why not? We are going to be the biggest club in the world, bigger than both Real Madrid and Manchester United."

In all probability, City's chances of persuading Ronaldo to forget about moving to Real Madrid and decide instead to swap Old Trafford for Eastlands - or 'Middle Eastlands', as some City fans have started referring to it - are, at best, miniscule. Yet City's remarkable signing of Robinho from Real Madrid, for a British record £32.5m, just before Sunday's transfer deadline has already sent shockwaves through the sport, and Al-Fahim insisted the club would be willing to pay United three times the world transfer record, set in 2001 when Zinedine Zidane moved from Juventus to Real Madrid. "We want a team who can win the Champions League," he added.

Al-Fahim also confirmed that Torres and Fábregas were among his targets as City look to bring in a "minimum 18" players. "We're not just going to spend money on anyone, but if we can get the biggest players in the world, and of course if the manager wants them, then we will get them," he said.

Robinho arrived in London on Tuesday for a brief meeting with Mark Hughes to conclude the transfer - even though he has yet to take the usually routine medical examination - before flying out to join up with the Brazil national squad for Monday's World Cup qualifier against Chile. The 24-year-old has agreed a four-year contract that makes him the highest-paid footballer in the history of the game, with a weekly salary of £160,000.

Ronaldo could conceivably be offered twice that amount but it could also be argued that City's pursuit of the twice footballer-of-the-year also demonstrates a degree of naivety on the part of the new owners. United's reaction was one of bemusement, a spokesman saying "we have made it clear all summer that Cristiano is not for sale".


What a fecking wanker.
Explain how the bolded makes him a wanker?
 

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The question really is whether the top players will go.
Some will, some won't. Ronaldo and Messi wouldn't. Kaka wouldn't be overly attracted by the money, but if Milan get a massive offer that can clear the debts and get them set for the next few years then he'll be willing to sign (and unfortunately I can see that happening). Then there are plenty of players in the next echelon down that will happily sign for ridiculous wages. And each one that goes there will make them more attractive for the next as they build a team that can compete.

Hopefully the new owners are overly concerned with attacking players and ignore the defence.
 

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Now aren't you all fecking greatful Utd was bought by some sane genuine businessmen who just want to run the club as a proper & profitable business instead of wrecking it with their fantasies ?

...and there was a voice, crying in the wilderness...
 

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I just wonder if Ronaldo is now thinking that the PL is where its all happening, where all the best players are going to end up. Would he rather be a big fish in a small pond (la liga) or would his vanity compel him to stay and compete with the cream of his generation? Especially if they are on bigger money than Real could afford?
See my various posts to this effect in the Great Ronaldo Thread, (most of which were treated with predictable derision by the cacophony of the cnut callers).
 

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i think someone needs to point out to these citeh feckers that having money does not make you a great club instantly
 

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Problem with getting 135 million for Ronaldo is that selling clubs will instantly put up the prices of players they don't want to let go. Messi will instantly become 150 million and Aguero around 60-80 million.
It's not only that. It's not even mainly that. What people forget is that money goes round; once sums like this have been introduced from an external source - what is in effect a non-industry-generated cash injection - the recipient clubs who benefit from these wild fees will themselves be in a position to make far higher bids and pay far higher wages. This will force these absurd, anomolous cash cows from the oily sands to make even more outrageous bids, which again will pump yet more cash into the system, enabling the selling clubs to buy at even higher levels. And so it goes on and on.

Eventually the result will be a sort of fee-inflation; little will have changed in terms of actual player distribution and thus club on club dominance. Sure these buying clubs like City will have better players, but as RM discovered years ago with their 'galacticos' policy, it is by no means a one way ticket to glory.
 

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Messi-Kaka-Fabregas-Ronaldo

So that'll be City's midfield and strikeforce come February the 1st?
 

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Problem with getting 135 million for Ronaldo is that selling clubs will instantly put up the prices of players they don't want to let go. Messi will instantly become 150 million and Aguero around 60-80 million.
doesn't he have a buyout clause of around £110m?
 

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I can't really see this happening.. I mean didn't Cesc criticise Robinho, why would he go and join City after that? All the others, wouldn't like the backlash either. I mean look at the backlash for Robinho, even his home club Santos saying they were ashamed to produce such a player.