reddevilcanada
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problem is Ronaldo would never want to join Shitty and he's already loaded as it is.
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 himExactly. 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.
never underestimate the power of greed.problem is Ronaldo would never want to join Shitty and he's already loaded as it is.
Hehe City will not be the worlds best team, thats for sure.Ronaldo pricetag: £150m
Ronaldo pricetag for Real, Pool, Chelsea, Arsenal: £300m
Ronaldo pricetag for City: £1000m
People seem to be forgeting the obvious fact that Ronaldo would be unlikely to leave OT for anywhere other than Madrid.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.
I sure hope your right.I am now convinced that this is all a big wind up. I'm expecting it to be part of an Emirate game show, and that City's new owner is actually the Arabic version of Jeremy fecking Beadle.
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.Lebron James said he would go to Greece to play professional basketball for 50m a year.
Nail meet head Do they really think Fabregas/Torres/Insert superstart will go for 50m if they pay 130 for Ronaldo ?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.
Bitches, or rather we'd have just fleeced our fierce City rivals for far more money than the player is worthWe'd be silly to turn it down.
Although that'd make us City's bitches.
Hmm...
Explain how the bolded makes him a wanker?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.
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.The question really is whether the top players will go.
That reminds me of another club, can't remember there name though...Hopefully the new owners are overly concerned with attacking players and ignore the defence.
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 ?
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).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?
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.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.
As real madrid realised, somebody has to win the ball to allow the flair players to play.
Crazy new owners
doesn't he have a buyout clause of around £110m?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.