1) The Champions League is the biggest trophy in town. Real Madrid last won the Champions league in 2002. That was the great side with Makelele, Figo and Zidane in midfield. Since then, they have made it to the Semi-Finals once. They haven’t got to the Quarter-Finals in the last 4 years. Roma beat them home and away last season. They are a busted flush.
2) Remember the famous Galacticos? All gone. Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos (whatever happened to them?) were the last to go.
3) What about the Premier League Galacticos? With Beckham, Owen and Woodgate Real Madrid did nothing in Europe. After one year at Real Madrid Owen was lucky to get signed by Newcastle, Woodgate ended up at Middlesbrough and Beckham couldn’t even manage that.
4) What about domestic glory? Yes, they have won La Liga for the last two years. But they have only won it four times in the past eleven years.
5) They change manager every year. The last coach to last three seasons was Del Bosque who won the Champions League twice at the beginning of the century. Since then seven coaches.
6) Bernd Schuster? Really?? Schuster or Ferguson and Quieroz?
7) Here’s a hard choice. Who would you rather play with up front: Rooney and Tevez? Or Julio Baptista (remember his time on loan at Arsenal?), Saviola, Robinho and 31-year old sulkypants Ruud Van Nistelroy?
8 ) United are on a roll. Young players. Premiership winners two years in a row. Champions League winners and semi-finalists the year before. Saha will be replaced. Chelsea are about to go into meltdown. Arsenal too, if Hleb follows Flamini out of the door.
9) Who’s the most famous player in the world? Cristiano Ronaldo. Why? because he plays for a team that’s youthful, winning and plays exciting football. When was the last time you heard anyone talking about Saviola, Robinho and Julio Baptista? Yup. Thought so.
10) So what’s the all the fuss about? He’s trying to push up his wages at United and his sponsorship deals. Keep Real Madrid interested and he’ll stay in the headlines all the way from Moscow to the European Championships. If Portugal have a good run, he’ll be in all the sports magazines for another few weeks. That’s half the summer. His agent will be laughing. Real Madrid will not.
Excellent points and very well put together,the problem i have is with Ronaldo’s loyalty,he could have quite easily quashed the rumours by coming out and making a statement but if greed is his drive then i would prefer if he was to leave for Madrid and let Calderon deposit an extortionate amount of money in Fergies transfer kitty,but I think the general consensus among United fans now is we’d love him to stay but if he doesnt make a definitive statement about were he wants to go then just go and make it quick.
i hate ronaldo myself but hes our best player what did we do well we gave him a bit of stick after ther world cup wink but we forgave him so ronaldo just a loser hahahahhahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaahahahahhahahahahaahhahahahahahahahah i hate ronaldo hes just a loser
Hi i think that you make good points but a few i think don’t go in uniteds way. Number 7 for example i would well rather have real madarids strikers then man u’s. Also you say we never hear people talking about some of real madrids players but if we lived in spain we would never hear anyone talk about ronaldo or gerrard. I think ronadlo is over rated and i would love to see him out of the primership.