Will Cristiano Ronaldo’s proposed sale improve Arsenal’s chances next season?
Posted by Chris Rivers on June 15th, 2009
By Jamie Wright
It seems as though Kaka’s world record transfer of £56 million has been blown out of the water within a week as Cristiano Ronaldo looks
set to sign for Real Madrid for a staggering £80 million. The Manchester United winger has hinted over the past two years that it has been his boyhood dream to play for ‘Los Blancos’ in La Liga and it looks like this may now become true.
The presidential election recently at Real Madrid saw Florentino Perez re-instated and brought with him their infamous ‘Los Galacticos’ tagline once again. He is going all out to sign the world’s best players and is supposedly courting big targets such as David Villa, Xabi Alonso and Javier Mascherano to add to the £136 million he has already spent on Kaka and Ronaldo.
So the question is, will Ronaldo’s transfer to Real Madrid have a positive or negative affect on Arsenal and Manchester United’s other competitors?
There is no doubt that Ronaldo developed under Sir Alex Ferguson’s into one of, if not, the best player in the world. However, his personality has been under massive scrutiny throughout his career and it came to light towards the end of the current campaign.
Many Manchester United fans were becoming sick of his attitude towards his team-mates and believed that he was only playing for himself. His whole body language, continued petulance and childish demeanour throughout the season became a hindrance and not a positive on the
title winners.
Personally, I am slightly concerned with this sale. Cristiano Ronaldo was becoming hard for Ferguson to man manage and is probably the main
reason he is leaving for Madrid. The Manchester United boss now has £80 million to add to his transfer kitty and this may be a concern to
Arsenal and all the other Premier League clubs.
Alex Ferguson may be laughing all the way to the bank after benefiting from 6 years service from Ronaldo yet making a £68 million profit.
Targets such as Franck Ribery, Karim Benzema, Sergio Aguero, Klaas Jan Huntelaar and Antonio Valencia are names being rallied around and with a massive £80 million to play with I won’t be surprised to see a few of these names added in the coming weeks.
However there is no doubting Ronaldo’s quality, so what effect do you think this will have on the Premiership Title race next season? Can
Arsenal attract the same players that Manchester United can? Will Arsene Wenger’s inferior budget mean that the gap widens over the
summer?
Let me know your thoughts.
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June 15th, 2009 at 4:35 am
Henry scared the opposition before they got on the park, so they became overly focused on stopping him. We haven’t had that since he left. Ronaldo did the same for United.
June 15th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
arsene should sign another big french striker aka benzema before its too late… but im not sure i could just ramble on and on about how we should reinforce the team. at least the young gunners like walcott and etc are growing up nicely?
June 15th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
I think that United will not be able to find someone of Ronaldo’s class. The majority of United’s wins were of slim margins and Ronaldo had a huge say with the number of goals he scored. With Tevez also possibly moving away from Old Trafford, it may take some time before United can regain a potent attack. This transfer can only help Arsenal, regardless of the amount of money Fergie gets. He will not be able to replace Ronaldo and Real Madrid and City have inflated the transfer market to such a degree that 80 million is not considered enough. Also, consider the large amount of debt on the club and some of the fee may be earmarked towards that.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:46 am
i lawld wen i read this nice summary btw keep it up
ronaldo deal has had problems wonder wats gonna happen
June 20th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
The departure of such a world class player as Ronaldo will hurt any side. Couple this with the pending Tevez departure and Man Utd are not quite the team they were the past couple of seasons. The gap might be a bit thinner between the Gunners and Utd but as the Champions league SF showed, the gap was huge last year. I still worry about Arsenal losing a couple of high quality players this year (such as Fabregas and Clichy) before September. Perhaps Arsenal will close the gap on United this year but Chelsea will only be better next year and I would pick them to take the EPL from Utd this year. Arsenal, unfortunately, still seem a year or two away and that’s only if they can keep this young side together and add in a couple of players here and there.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Fuk Wenger
I love the guy but he better remove his fingers out of the money sack. Just buy players, I heard Melo and Xabi has signed new deals for there clubs. Just fuking spend money we just need another 16mill player. Preferably a holding midfielder, Like Vieira or Flamini. Denilson is to small, Song loves himself to much.
PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Wenger buy someone.
Also i think we sold Henry to Cheap we shoulda cash in with at least 30 mil.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:38 am
is the money there for that 16 mill
also arsenalist dude put a chat box in
so we can discuss more about the news i could get you one if u want
July 9th, 2009 at 10:29 am
no man u will still have as good a shot as anyone cuz they lost ronaldo not a whole team they still have rooney ferdinand berbatov nani anderson and some other guys
February 27th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
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February 28th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Благодарю!!!У Вас часто появляются очень интересные посты! Очень поднимаете мое настроение.
September 1st, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Cristiano is the most unreal athlete in the world!