BBC: Man United sign young Ronaldo according to Portuguese TV!!!!!!!
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its on 4thegame.co.uk now too
Oh and to think we could have signed that whinging minge Kewell instead.....
You think planetbollocks is bad, for real triple-a grade bullshit, try this site: <a href="http://www.football-rumours.com/" target="_blank">http://www.football-rumours.com/</a>
The thing is, in all the sites it's "reports in Portugal..." so it doesn't matter how many more sites it's in.
If it is true then Christmas has come early for United supporters everywhere. 
<a href="http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/story/0,1283,-3015716,00.html" target="_blank">http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/story/0,1283,-3015716,00.html</a>
football365, sporting life, guardian, teamtalk etc.. all have exact story word for word, lazy reporters. **checks soccernet
Originally posted by CremboMan:
<strong>The thing is, in all the sites it's "reports in Portugal..." so it doesn't matter how many more sites it's in.</strong><hr></blockquote>I was thinking the same thing. While this thread picks up another 5 pages of people talking about how brilliant Ronaldo is, I'll be waiting for something new to come out.
Originally posted by nickm:
<strong>You think planetbollocks is bad, for real triple-a grade bullshit, try this site: <a href="http://www.football-rumours.com/" target="_blank">http://www.football-rumours.com/</a></strong><hr></blockquote>Then I suppose it's a good thing that the Ronaldo rumour isn't there then?
Latest news on Reuters:
Tonight (20:00) it was confirmed that along with Premier League champions Manchester United, newly-rich Chelsea are also interested in young winger Ronaldo of Sporting Lisbon. Though the player may not fancy a move to such an incredible shithole, this will serve to hike the price up to the sort of figure you'd have paid for a medium-sized continent during the Great Depression. Sporting Chairman Julio Dojigeeza said, "We're not confirming or denying anything. But since United want him and the Scum do too, I've just slapped so many extra zeros on the price it's starting to resemble a bloody rosary, ha ha. Once these suckers get involved it's fecking payday mate, which is handy as my mistress has an expensive taste in handbags."
It is thought negotiations will now enter a period of crazed furtive gibbering on all media
before the player's agent, Morales de Serpente, announces that Ronaldo is staying on the Iberian peninsula due to his fondness for sunlight and doing feck all all day.
Peter Kenyon tonight was saying only "Christ help me I think I've done it again."
Hans Offjukuntz, Reuters
Tonight (20:00) it was confirmed that along with Premier League champions Manchester United, newly-rich Chelsea are also interested in young winger Ronaldo of Sporting Lisbon. Though the player may not fancy a move to such an incredible shithole, this will serve to hike the price up to the sort of figure you'd have paid for a medium-sized continent during the Great Depression. Sporting Chairman Julio Dojigeeza said, "We're not confirming or denying anything. But since United want him and the Scum do too, I've just slapped so many extra zeros on the price it's starting to resemble a bloody rosary, ha ha. Once these suckers get involved it's fecking payday mate, which is handy as my mistress has an expensive taste in handbags."
It is thought negotiations will now enter a period of crazed furtive gibbering on all media
before the player's agent, Morales de Serpente, announces that Ronaldo is staying on the Iberian peninsula due to his fondness for sunlight and doing feck all all day.
Peter Kenyon tonight was saying only "Christ help me I think I've done it again."
Hans Offjukuntz, Reuters
Fergie more than like tuck up in bed with a cup of cocca or a wee dram
Expect confirmation tomorrow but this looks really promising
Remember how Kewell joined the dippers it's was reported in his own country although that was screwed up sightly
Expect confirmation tomorrow but this looks really promising
Remember how Kewell joined the dippers it's was reported in his own country although that was screwed up sightly
If Cristiano Ronaldo joins Kieran Richardson will be probably be on his way.
i thought fergie didnt want anymore midfielders
just wake up tomorrow and check the manutd site, i wont believe it until its on there.
If he comes its good news, one striker(defoe) and one defender(puyol) and were ready.
This will put to bed any move for vandervart.
This will put to bed any move for vandervart.
Originally posted by spinoza:
<strong>I'd hate to lose Richardson.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I wouldn't, he used to be a right arrogent cnut in school. Danny Byrne though, what a quality lad he used to be. Nice lad with his feet firmly on the ground. I hope he makes the grade one day.
Kieron Richardson is shite, forget about him united have a better player now
CRonaldo is a lefty, he'll play on the left (if at all) with scholes moving into the middle with Keane, this frees giggs to support ruud. Scholes as good as he was oin the left sunday would be better in the middle, with CRonaldo we can duplicate Giggs role on the left.
Here is a profile on him:
Full Name: Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro
Current Club: Sporting Lisbon
Birth Date: February 5 1985
Birth Place: Madeira
Birth Nation: Portugal
Height: 184cm
Weight: 75Kg
Nationality: Portuguese
Position: Forward
But according to the portuguese in this forum he can play on BOTH wings and as a support striker.
Full Name: Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro
Current Club: Sporting Lisbon
Birth Date: February 5 1985
Birth Place: Madeira
Birth Nation: Portugal
Height: 184cm
Weight: 75Kg
Nationality: Portuguese
Position: Forward
But according to the portuguese in this forum he can play on BOTH wings and as a support striker.
Signing Ronaldo does not mean losing younger players like Richardson - since we have already clered enough room off our payroll by losing Becks, Veron, May and Blanc this year. It is of course not clear that Richardson has what it takes to break through - I personally think it's no more than 50/50 that he makes it at Utd. although he is clearl a premiership quality player.
Ronaldo also may not make it - he is still young and raw - but I think the odds are far higher that he does. What is esciting is that we would have 4 or 5 young attacking players all capable of playing in multiple positions in midfild and upfront - a far more fluid version of the great class of '92 may be about to emerge....
Ronaldo also may not make it - he is still young and raw - but I think the odds are far higher that he does. What is esciting is that we would have 4 or 5 young attacking players all capable of playing in multiple positions in midfild and upfront - a far more fluid version of the great class of '92 may be about to emerge....
Originally posted by Kevin:
<strong>Here is a profile on him:
Full Name: Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro
Current Club: Sporting Lisbon
Birth Date: February 5 1985
Birth Place: Madeira
Birth Nation: Portugal
Height: 184cm
Weight: 75Kg
Nationality: Portuguese
Position: Forward
But according to the portuguese in this forum he can play on BOTH wings and as a support striker.</strong><hr></blockquote>
only 10 days older than me
That's like me signing for United 10 days from now
Is C Ronaldo right or left footed? If i can remember rightly he played on the left against United but appeared to cut on to his right foot.
Can somebody confirm??
Can somebody confirm??
The Times has it now
<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,27-774957,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,27-774957,00.html</a>
Ferguson beats Chelsea to sign the new Ronaldo
By Oliver Kay
MANCHESTER UNITED have recorded their first victory over Roman Abramovich, the billionaire owner of Chelsea, by agreeing a deal to sign Cristiano Ronaldo, the outstanding young Sporting Lisbon playmaker. The 18-year-old impressed Sir Alex Ferguson in Sporting’s victory over United in a friendly match in Lisbon last Wednesday and, despite a strong rival bid from Chelsea, he is expected to complete a £6.6 million move to Old Trafford within the next 48 hours.
Abramovich, whose spending power has kept United in the shade this summer, hoped to add Ronaldo to his everexpanding galaxy of stars and offered Sporting an attractive deal whereby Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink would move to Lisbon on loan for a season. Sources at Old Trafford, though, have indicated that United’s deal to sign Ronaldo is all but complete. He was understood to be in Manchester with his representatives last night to iron out the finer points of a five-year contract.
The deal for Ronaldo, who has yet to make his international debut, represents the first dividend from the alliance that United established with Sporting this year. They lost out to Barcelona in the bidding for Ricardo Quaresma, another Sporting prodigy, but, in the case of Ronaldo, whom Ferguson congratulated on his performance in last week’s friendly, the clubs’ relationship, added to the player’s enthusiasm for the move to Old Trafford, swung the balance decisively in their favour.
Despite making several low-key investments, for a combined outlay of £4.6 million, United have hitherto endured a difficult summer in the transfer market, missing out on Ronaldinho and Harry Kewell to Barcelona and Liverpool respectively.
The capture of Ronaldo and imminent arrival of Kleberson hint at a change of fortune, but United are unlikely to succeed in their pursuit of Jermain Defoe, the forward, who is valued at more than £10 million by West Ham United, or Carles Puyol, the Barcelona defender. Barcelona maintain that Puyol, 25, would cost about £14 million, which is approximately twice what United would deem acceptable for a defender in the final year of his contract, but he remains a more likely recruit than Hatem Trabelsi, the Ajax full back. Trabelsi is expected to play for Ajax in a Champions League qualifying match against Grazer AK tonight, thus rendering him ineligible to represent another club in European competition this season.
Kleberson, the Brazil midfield player, hopes to complete his £5.6 million move to United from Atlético Paranaense today. Despite reports to the contrary, United were still waiting last night for confirmation from the Home Office that his work permit has been granted.
Juan Sebastián Verón has revealed the background to his £15 million move from United to Chelsea last week, criticising Ferguson’s handling of the transfer. “He wasn’t sincere with me,” Verón said. “Two months ago, a couple of clubs expressed an interest and he said I wasn’t for sale. He gave me the impression I was wanted. But when there was more money on the table, his conversation changed. That’s hard for me.”
He added: “The story was running and nobody in Manchester was denying it. So I asked Ferguson: ‘Do you want me in the squad?’ He gave me a convoluted explanation about tactics in midfield, saying in a roundabout way that he’d find it difficult to play me from the start if this and that happened.
“I confronted him and said: ‘I’m not asking you if I will start every game. I’m asking if you want me in your squad.’ Then he came out with a line about Chelsea’s offer being very good, financially. I realised it was all about money.”
<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,27-774957,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,27-774957,00.html</a>
Ferguson beats Chelsea to sign the new Ronaldo
By Oliver Kay
MANCHESTER UNITED have recorded their first victory over Roman Abramovich, the billionaire owner of Chelsea, by agreeing a deal to sign Cristiano Ronaldo, the outstanding young Sporting Lisbon playmaker. The 18-year-old impressed Sir Alex Ferguson in Sporting’s victory over United in a friendly match in Lisbon last Wednesday and, despite a strong rival bid from Chelsea, he is expected to complete a £6.6 million move to Old Trafford within the next 48 hours.
Abramovich, whose spending power has kept United in the shade this summer, hoped to add Ronaldo to his everexpanding galaxy of stars and offered Sporting an attractive deal whereby Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink would move to Lisbon on loan for a season. Sources at Old Trafford, though, have indicated that United’s deal to sign Ronaldo is all but complete. He was understood to be in Manchester with his representatives last night to iron out the finer points of a five-year contract.
The deal for Ronaldo, who has yet to make his international debut, represents the first dividend from the alliance that United established with Sporting this year. They lost out to Barcelona in the bidding for Ricardo Quaresma, another Sporting prodigy, but, in the case of Ronaldo, whom Ferguson congratulated on his performance in last week’s friendly, the clubs’ relationship, added to the player’s enthusiasm for the move to Old Trafford, swung the balance decisively in their favour.
Despite making several low-key investments, for a combined outlay of £4.6 million, United have hitherto endured a difficult summer in the transfer market, missing out on Ronaldinho and Harry Kewell to Barcelona and Liverpool respectively.
The capture of Ronaldo and imminent arrival of Kleberson hint at a change of fortune, but United are unlikely to succeed in their pursuit of Jermain Defoe, the forward, who is valued at more than £10 million by West Ham United, or Carles Puyol, the Barcelona defender. Barcelona maintain that Puyol, 25, would cost about £14 million, which is approximately twice what United would deem acceptable for a defender in the final year of his contract, but he remains a more likely recruit than Hatem Trabelsi, the Ajax full back. Trabelsi is expected to play for Ajax in a Champions League qualifying match against Grazer AK tonight, thus rendering him ineligible to represent another club in European competition this season.
Kleberson, the Brazil midfield player, hopes to complete his £5.6 million move to United from Atlético Paranaense today. Despite reports to the contrary, United were still waiting last night for confirmation from the Home Office that his work permit has been granted.
Juan Sebastián Verón has revealed the background to his £15 million move from United to Chelsea last week, criticising Ferguson’s handling of the transfer. “He wasn’t sincere with me,” Verón said. “Two months ago, a couple of clubs expressed an interest and he said I wasn’t for sale. He gave me the impression I was wanted. But when there was more money on the table, his conversation changed. That’s hard for me.”
He added: “The story was running and nobody in Manchester was denying it. So I asked Ferguson: ‘Do you want me in the squad?’ He gave me a convoluted explanation about tactics in midfield, saying in a roundabout way that he’d find it difficult to play me from the start if this and that happened.
“I confronted him and said: ‘I’m not asking you if I will start every game. I’m asking if you want me in your squad.’ Then he came out with a line about Chelsea’s offer being very good, financially. I realised it was all about money.”
Originally posted by MishkiN:
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I wouldn't, he used to be a right arrogent cnut in school. Danny Byrne though, what a quality lad he used to be. Nice lad with his feet firmly on the ground. I hope he makes the grade one day.
Hmmm, you mustve gone to a school in Sale then Mishkin, Richardson was in the year above my birds brother in that school and also says he was an arrogant git.
Originally posted by CremboMan:
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only 10 days older than me
That's like me signing for United 10 days from now
Hes 4 days older than me and worth £8.5Million.
I wonder how much im worth then? I've got youth on my side compared to him...
Originally posted by manuman:
<strong>
Hmmm, you mustve gone to a school in Sale then Mishkin, Richardson was in the year above my birds brother in that school and also says he was an arrogant git.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah, Ashton on Mersey.
He was a cock. Thought he was some sort of "gangster". Infact an ex-United youngster who got dropped by United after having a fight and beating the living shit out of another student said "If I didn't play for United, I'd be a 'gangsta'". His name was Jemal Johnson, now of Blackburn and I can tell you he fecked the fattest slut at our school, he had no shame.
Oh and Kieran Richrdson got a blow job off one of the dirty Ashton on Mersey sluts under the bridge at the Brooklands metrolink station. I also heard a rumour that she got fecked, up against one of the grave stones in the Brooklands cemetry, don't know if it was by Richardson but she was loose. Hope he gets knob rott