Enhance Your Calm
We all need to calm down a bit here. As I keep stressing the situation has not changed. Ronaldo gave an interview and said that he agreed with Sepp Blatter and it has been twisted into ‘Ronaldo Wants Out of Slavery Shocker’, by those stout chaps in Fleet Street who want to fill up a few more pages in their newspapers.
What Sepp Blatter said was in direct support of player power and freedom of movement. I think you will find that every single professional football player on the planet would agree with him. But if Ronaldo says he agrees with him we all read..’Ronaldo Wants Out of Slavery Shocker’ and are led to believe that it is gospel. It is not.
The man who decides who goes in and out the door at Old Trafford is Scottish, and probably in a very bad mood right now. I once met a sage old man in the pub who informed me with great confidence that Blatter was in fact a complete prat and that he should not be allowed to speak in public at all. I, of course, thoroughly disagreed with his opinion (it would be libelous not to), but thought his point of view was interesting.
Ronaldo has had his head turned by all of this interest and he stands nothing to lose by making a few cryptic comments here and there, it might make him a bit more money. He does have a wandering eye, now some people use this as reason character assassinate him, I think he’s a 23yr old bloke so be realistic and try to remember the 23yr old Giggs. Fergie will sort him out when he gets back. Besides, the guy has been out of the country for ages now and probably doesn’t even realise what a fuss he has stirred up.
Honestly, I can’t wait for the games to just get going. When we are subjected only to the ‘football machine’ and not the matches themselves I start to wonder if I enjoy football or just suffer from it. This saga is overwhelmingly disappointing and it is not going to end yet. Did we even get a full day to enjoy winning the European Cup before all of this started?
July 11th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Even the BBC is at it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/philmcnulty/2008/07/oh_to_be_a_slave_like_ronaldos.html
July 11th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Absolutely you are right!! We have the best manager who has been around the block and weathered many a storm in his time at the helm. I see this as an exciting time in which we can look forward to a new-look Man U after a new #2 arrives and a win/win situation with the big Ego, Mr Ronaldo. If he stays, he will be focused on not diminishing his value, and if he goes, we get 3-4 players in the trade. Either way, Man U will not fail because of one exceedingly talented, young, rash, exciting, and bone-headed player like Ronaldo.
Looking forward to all the theatrics to be over and the games to begin.