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| Manchester United are going to going to demand €50m, Robinho, Sergio Ramos and Mahamadou Diarrà from Real Madrid in exchange for Cristiano Ronaldo in a final bid to end the transfer saga, according to another outlandish report. That is the latest view from Spanish sports daily Marca, who appear to have made it their mission to publicly keep the link between Los Merengues and the Portuguese star going after taking the story from an outspoken presenter on COPE Radio. Sir Alex Ferguson has been riled by the ever-increasing media stories coming from Spain and is also said to be frustrated that the player himself will not make a statement to stop them. Marca do not appear to be surprised by the thought that United will demand three players, Robinho, Ramos and Diarrà, who are thought to be worth around €90m in total, plus another €50m. After stating that the English giants are putting a price that is too high for Madrid to consider, the report quickly attempts to turn the situation around once again. Instead, the paper takes it as a sign that there could even be some willingness to negotiate because the Premier League and European champions have set an asking price. Ramón Calderón has expressed his surprise at Ferguson appearing to be so annoyed, but he too has one little to actually calm the situation and Marca are unlikely to be acting without some input from Madrid. The latest story only ratchets the whole story into a sphere that even the most optimistic Madrilienian will find difficult to believe and until Ronaldo makes a statement will not stop. Robinho has already stated that he has not heard, and does not want to hear, from United and he also thinks that Ronaldo will certainly not be joining Madrid this summer. Rumours that Madrid may approach the Glazer family directly in a bid to appeal to their desire for profits could also cause a major stir with Ferguson if that were to happen. |


| QUOTE (The Emirates Gallastico @ May 26 2008, 01:03 PM) |
| I thought that Audi story was fake. Real Madrid. :haha: :haha: :haha: |
| QUOTE (Cripps @ May 26 2008, 03:15 PM) |
| Marca say all the BS because they work for Real. Real Madrid :haha: |
| QUOTE (Cripps @ May 26 2008, 03:28 PM) |
| GWers - :haha: |
| QUOTE (Elchegooner @ May 26 2008, 03:52 PM) |
| It's a fact that Marca and Real Madrid work together to unsettle players. The Journo's admit it. It's not illegal but unethical and despicable. Mundo Deprotivo do it as well but they are not as good at it. It's nothing to do with supporting one club or another. Spanish people support either Madrid or Barca even if they live in the South, every last one of them. They believe everthing in Marca or the others and are infuriating to talk to. When a player is linked through the papers they believe 100% no matter how happy they are at their clubs, they will leave because Barca and Madrid are gods teams. I hate it. Marca is a disgusting creation that does it's best to unsettle Arsenal players every summer. Anyone supporting what they do or justifying must not be an Arsenal fan. Thats simple and quite clear. |
| QUOTE (Elchegooner @ May 26 2008, 07:52 PM) |
| It's a fact that Marca and Real Madrid work together to unsettle players. The Journo's admit it. It's not illegal but unethical and despicable. Mundo Deprotivo do it as well but they are not as good at it. It's nothing to do with supporting one club or another. Spanish people support either Madrid or Barca even if they live in the South, every last one of them. They believe everthing in Marca or the others and are infuriating to talk to. When a player is linked through the papers they believe 100% no matter how happy they are at their clubs, they will leave because Barca and Madrid are gods teams. I hate it. Marca is a disgusting creation that does it's best to unsettle Arsenal players every summer. Anyone supporting what they do or justifying must not be an Arsenal fan. Thats simple and quite clear. |
| QUOTE (Synergetic @ May 26 2008, 10:28 PM) |
| Real Madrid :haha: |
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:goodpost: |
| QUOTE (Cripps @ May 26 2008, 11:58 PM) |
| GWers :haha: |
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| Last Thursday, Real Madrid's Sporting Director, Pedja Mijatovic was settling into seat 1D of his Iberia flight from Moscow to Madrid. As the Prince of Darkness reapplied his hair gel and nibbled on a spider he had found scuttling across the floor of the executive lounge, Pedja was looking forward to a quiet flight home, plotting how he could make Sir Alex Ferguson's face even redder with more Ronaldo related naughtiness. That was until Marca's Roberto Gomez collapsed into seat 1C, next to him, and proceeded to spend the seven or so hours of the flight kissing his Montenegrin behind. "It was a pleasure to reacquaint myself with someone that I admired as a player and respect as a sporting director," gushed Gomez like a giggling schoolgirl in his column on Friday. Good for him thought La Liga Loca until it remembered the ramblings of Roberto from May 17 when he whined about the job being done at the Bernabeu by the technical team, complaining that there were "too many foreigners at Real Madrid." Meanwhile his paper and AS have been in tag team action and spent the last week doing a George Lucas by writing absolute gibberish on the unbelievably tedious Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid affair. If you are to believe this pair of porkie producers, the Portuguese pouter will be moving to the Spanish capital this summer for either a) 40 million euros and Robinho, b) 50 million euros and Robinho, Ramos and Diarra or c) 20 million euros and Ramón Calderón's head on a platter. The war of words between the Real Madrid president and the terror of Old Trafford went up a notch over the weekend when Fergie responded to Calderón's ridiculous claims that slavery had been abolished with an entertaining barb about General Franco. And this has just encouraged the Spanish press who now feel that Real Madrid are winning the tremendous tug of war over the winger by getting under Fergie's furious skin. But none of this is of particular interest in the Kingdom of Catalunya where they are desperately trying to get excited over the signings of ex-culé Gerard Piqué and Seydou Keita from Sevilla. As yet, they have no manager to present them once they put pen to paper as Pep Guardiola is still busy with Barça B business and has yet to agree financial terms on his own contract, claim AS. The other big story in Laportaland is the campaign by Oriol Giralt to gather 5882 signatures from bad-tempered Barcelona members. Once that is achieved, a referendum will have to be called within a month on the competency of the club's board. Valencia's Juan Bautista Soler has waddled before the press to say that he has no intention of selling his shareholding in the club and to place the blame on the fans for the sacking of the Benfica-bound Quique and the appointment of Ronald Koeman - "90 per cent of the supporters wanted Koeman," barked the ex-president. Meanwhile, Unai Emery is about to embark on a Mestalla clearout of epic proportions as he looks to reduce a bloated roster of 41 players down to a lean and mean 22. And he is also learning the ropes of the madhouse in Mestalla. "I'm an adaptable trainer and I'll adapt to the idiosyncrasies of Valencia," said the club's latest victim. |