It feels like robbery, specially since we didnt replace with the same quality. We should had got Sneijder/Robben or a young Neymar or something (aka top 10 player in the world or future prospect)... We settled with Ober fking tan
Sneijder, Robben, Ribery or Aguero is who we needed back then, with a Silva type player to play along with nani. Neymar was too raw back then. Didnt know if he'd go Ronaldinho or Kerlon.It feels like robbery, specially since we didnt replace with the same quality. We should had got Sneijder/Robben or a young Neymar or something (aka top 10 player in the world or future prospect)... We settled with Ober fking tan
He would have left anyway and for free, exactly the same Summer he left.Have you seen whats he's done since he left?!
Very trueAnd we robbed Sporting by paying 12 million.
If Mbappe is 100, then a Ballon D'or winning prem title winner must be 300How much would Ronaldo 2009 go for now? 200m?
You have a contract, you signed a contract. Sell the player the final year before they can leave on a free, but if you're a club with the money and aspiration to be top, you don't sell unless the player becomes destructive, and if they become destructive, I say bench them and let them leave on a free.suggestions for management how to deal with this case then?
If all it would have taken was to pay Ronaldo more to stay, we would have. Don't be silly. He wanted to go.I've always wondered what would have happened if United simply offered him blockbuster wages at the end of the 07/08 season. No, sadly we took the moral high ground and United were praised for "not giving in to player power". Had we torn up his contract, which I think was about 120k a week and offered him 250k - similar to the money we gave Rooney a couple of seasons later... I wonder how things would have turned out differently. Why throw money at Rooney and not Ronaldo? I know who I think would have been worth it.
I know we all know the "I have a dream to play for Real" narrative... and I never bought that story hook line and sinker... in a more simplified way of looking at the transfer Real tripled his wages as soon as he signed for them. I have a dream too... its that my employer triples my wages.
If we weren't under so much pressure financially than we just could've offered him 300k a week and promised him that we'd sign more top players and keep competing at the top level.I've always wondered what would have happened if United simply offered him blockbuster wages at the end of the 07/08 season. No, sadly we took the moral high ground and United were praised for "not giving in to player power". Had we torn up his contract, which I think was about 120k a week and offered him 250k - similar to the money we gave Rooney a couple of seasons later... I wonder how things would have turned out differently. Why throw money at Rooney and not Ronaldo? I know who I think would have been worth it.
I know we all know the "I have a dream to play for Real" narrative... and I never bought that story hook line and sinker... in a more simplified way of looking at the transfer Real tripled his wages as soon as he signed for them. I have a dream too... its that my employer triples my wages.
To be fair we do that all the time on this forum.No, they didn't, because you pay what the market dictates at the time, and the price Madrid paid was an incredible amount even for that period.
It's really simplistic to look back nearly 10 years on and say "we should have done this!" It's such an odd way to look at life.
Hard to give a price tag to an active player that is already in the GOAT list. 300M would be a decent price taking in consideration his current age but if he was a few years younger it could reach 400M easily.How much would Ronaldo 2009 go for now? 200m?
Chelsea should have kept Robben as well, but he wanted to go as well. Life's a bitch sometimesTo be fair we do that all the time on this forum.
I've never heard reports of us offering him silly amounts of money... all the talk in the summer of 08 was of getting him to honour his contract. I'm not sure why we chose to throw money at Rooney a couple of seasons later, but not at Ronaldo when it could have made a difference.If all it would have taken was to pay Ronaldo more to stay, we would have. Don't be silly. He wanted to go.
There may be something to that argument, seeing as how his sale pushed us into a profitable position during that fiscal year, and how we never really spent to replace him.If we weren't under so much pressure financially than we just could've offered him 300k a week and promised him that we'd sign more top players and keep competing at the top level.
They do this every major signing they announce, and it has sort of been debunked. Yeah they sell a lot of shirts but there is a fair bit of cannibalism going on, ie people rush to buy a Ronaldo shirt, they were going to buy a shirt anyways, the only question was whose name were they going to get on it.It was reported that Real Madrid sold 1.2 Ronaldo shirts in Spain alone in 2010 which equates to £60m in revenue. I think this figure sums up a steal. For a comparison adidas announced revenue of £200m for Pogba shirts 3 weeks after he signed for us...(revenue isn't profit but gives you an idea of money being generated)
Obertan too.To think that we spent those 80m on the likes of Young and Valencia
It was a good deal on both sides. The Bale and Pogba fees that eclipsed that fee we got for Ronaldo aren't that much more and we got it in a lump sum and are probably lower when accounting for inflation. We knew he was going to Real Madrid at some point in the very near future and we still got a massive fee with an unprecedented payment structure.Was a good piece of business by the club, given the player desperately wanted to leave and had been promised the opportunity. Even 10 years on, £80m is a close to world record fee and only perhaps 10 players can command such a fee.
Perhaps we could have included some add-ons, like £5m for each future Balon D'or etc, but £80M in one instalment was unprecedented enough.
Madrid took a risk when signing Ronaldo as upto that point Balon D'or winners like Kaka or Ronaldinho delivered 2 or 3 years of world class influence before rapidly fading.