Let’s Chill

I can’t blame him. If I were in his posi­tion, I would do the exact same thing. While Sir Alex Fer­gu­son and Real Madrid trade pot­shots– Ronaldo just sits back and basks in the glory of the moment. Hey I can sym­pa­thize with him. I remem­ber the days when I had mod­els and hot chicks fight­ing over me all the time. Hey, it’s tough to do… but after the first cou­ple of times you get used to it.

But let’s be real. We’ve seen these types of whims by Real Madrid pres­i­dent Ramón Calderón. Seems like ages since Kaká was being Pho­to­shopped with a Merengue jer­sey. To be com­pletely hon­est, there are other “press­ing” needs for Madrid right now. Calderón’s “men­tal mas­tur­ba­tion” now has Pedja Mija­tovic tap­ping his foot wait­ing for his boss. He had plans to look into get­ting a player like Didier Drogba in order to shore up the striker posi­tion. He also wanted to rein­force the back­line as well as obtain a play­mak­ing mid­fielder. The Ronaldo fever could cost Bernd Schus­ter a sig­nif­i­cant amount of rein­force­ments. Also this means that suc­cess is get­ting to Calderón’s head. If you remem­ber a few years ago, after Flo­rentino Pérez resigned, he was the man that ran on the “anti-Galáctico” plat­form. It won him the pres­i­dency and two titles shortly after­wards. But Cris­tiano Ronaldo’s effect as a mar­ket­ing heavy­weight would help the club earn once again Galático-type money. If there is one thing that is quite safe to say it’s that in Por­tu­gal there are more Ronaldo jer­seys being sold than Pepe’s. In Argentina, there are more Messi jer­seys being sold than Gon­zalo Higuaín, Gabriel Heinze, and Javier Savi­ola (times 50). I haven’t seen very many Iker Casil­las jer­seys being sold. My point is that Madrid was built to win titles not mer­chan­dis­ing wars. A few years ago that was not the case. Beck­ham (con­sid­ered a dirty in Madrid now), Zidane, and their posse dom­i­nated that end of the sport.

For many, the arrival of a player like Ronaldo would bring back that era of divi­sive­ness.  For oth­ers, it would be a wel­come change.  Where would he fit in? Who would have to leave? What about a player like Raúl? Well let’s wait until he is actu­ally tak­ing the flight to Madrid before we star putting him in our fan­tasy team list wear­ing white instead of red.

As far as Man­ches­ter is con­cerned, they are will­ing to drag this out until later on this sum­mer.   Hey they said they weren’t going to rene­go­ti­ate now.  That doesn’t mean they won’t do it later.  Stay tuned.

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