Adidas plus loads of other sponsors.
Kit suppliers sometimes take an active role in transfers, helping one of their partners to make sure a marquee player starts wearing their jersey. Adidas especially have a history with this and prying Messi away from Nike could be a pretty big prize, don't you think?
Also, assuming Messi would go to United, that would cause so, so much media attention around the world. Shirt sales would go through the roof (and Adidas will profit from that the most) and it drags much more attention to the brand so that Adidas can pay more in sponsoring deals. So it's in their self interest to make it happen. Sort of how companies fund public infrastructure if it's profitable for them.
I never said he was the most important player on the 2005/2006 CL run, thats just typical Ronaldo fans mental gymnastics you are using. You starting your sentence with "you have created a narrative" only to start saying lies and fallacies immediately after it is really funny by the way.
Do you have any examples of this?
Neh he doesn’t.....
Fair enough - I made some big assumptions such as Barca would demand no transfer fee (Messi's clause is reportedly 600m+) and that there would be no agent fees, signing bonuses etc. A deal this complicated it's pointless to make assumptions from the outside...
Some big assumptions; what is the point/value in/of a defensive clause when an asset doesn't want to work. Yes complicated, yes unlikely. There is a hypothesis.
Puma reportedly supplement Reus' Wages at Dortmund.
So no euro for Ronaldo then, injured in the final and his team didn’t need him for that match
He played the first 20 mins or so, and helped sure up the defence!
Whoa! Calm down dude, be careful saying things as crazy as that on the internet. But hey, since we are being honest and confessing crazy thoughts:
Well judging by the way the Ronnie and Messi fanboys have been at each others throat I could imagine way too many people would hate those two in one team. Maybe I'm wrong, and they would be okay with it and still fight about who did more for the team to win.
Sorry if i came off as a dick. I just dont think theres anybody that wouldnt want that to happen, seeing those two playing together and complimenting each other's strenghts to perfection would be one of the best things to be witnessed in the history of football.
Wasn't Nike behind Ronaldo's moves to Barca, Inter, and Real?
Hahaha
China, Arabia, Psg, City
Wouldn't play out the same at all.
Messi on the RW would be glorious for you guys
I know the question wasn’t for me but I want to chime in. If Messi manages to win 3 more champions leagues as the main man, and passes Ronaldo in goals and assists, which is probable due to being younger, I would totally accept that he is the best in the champions league and I’m not sure anyone could go against it.
I can see where you are coming from. Maybe people just expect Messi to win the game regardless. this might be the wrong mindset especially in a team game and Messi being a playmaker as well as a goalscorer. As oppose to Ronaldo being “just” a goal scorer so if he scores what else can you ask of him. This is an unfair way of looking at it but I have had people say this before many times. Ultimately people expect Messi to overcome more than Ronaldo because of the influence he can have on a game.
Nope, only Brazil. And yeah, Nike apparently got to decide their friendlies and Ronaldo had to play those according to their contract with the brazilian FA
That Barca side would have still won the CL without him - same couldn't be said for the United & Real Madrid sides that won the CL. Messi scored 1 goal that entire tournament. Ofcourse, he has 4 but he wasn't critical to 1 of those 4 in the same way Ronaldo was critical to 5/5 of his triumphs.
Except Ronaldo scored or assisted 67% of his team's goals that tournament and won the silver boot. I don't think Messi 2006 is comparable at all.
Going to Real would make Messi a traitor for Barca fans but I don't get why they would see him as a traitor if he left for a club outside of Spain, I mean what difference would it make for them if he went to PSG or Bayern to win a CL? As for fooball fans in general, do they see Mbappe, Neymar, Silva, De Bruyne etc as traitors? I sure don't.
fair play you only partially bit. I have no horse in this race.Makes sense. Stumbled onto this bit... Ronaldo was steered to Inter by his handlers seeking a big payout, supposedly.
I remember Bobby Robson in an interview saying he was a good "Chico" and that he'd have "No reason" to leave Barcelona any time soon.
You cant say things like that and expect to be taken seriously. You cant just randomly take away trophies and medals from players with the argument that "well they probably would have won without him" hahaha.
