It’s Real on Ronaldo again!
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Spanish giants Real Madrid insists they will never give up trying to sign winger Cristiano Ronaldo. The rumour mill linking the Portuguese superstar with a move to Santiago Bernabeu has been in full swing for the last year.
With some reports last week claimed Real Madrid were willing to splash out a world-record £50 million to land him in the summer. Sir Alex Ferguson has described the constant speculation as nonsense, while chief executive David Gill says the club have no intention of selling their star player.
Ronaldo’s superstar status, advertising value, competition prize money by helping Man Utd advanced and his young age clearly worth more than £50 million. In-fact, there is no price tag on his head at the moment
But Real’s sporting director Predrag Mijatovic clearly isn’t put off by those statements.
He told The Sun: “Ronaldo is an exceptional footballer and, although we know signing a player like that is very complicated, we will just have to keep working on it.
If one day a chance opens up, then we will be there trying to sign him. He’d grace any team in the world.”
Ronaldo has been in stunning form for United this season, and currently tops the Premier League scoring charts with 16 goals in just 17 starts.