Ronaldo is undoubtadly a top player but I think he made a mistake going to madrid. All those goals are good and his record doesnt surprise me because at united he was lethal vs the crap sides. In spain there are basically 18 crap sides. Well I guess there are probably 15 absolutly dire sides and 3 semi bad sides. Financially the tv money is divided in such a way that 75% of madrids league games are vs clubs with budgets the size of league 1 clubs.
Spot on. I think Ronaldo had to challenge himself more in England, with tougher defenses and people could match him for strength, where as in Spain he's just a beast and the only team that can stop him is Barca.
I do wonder if that's the main reason Ronaldo seems to be angling for an exit from Madrid? He's gotten his boyhood dream and realised that it's not quite what he hoped it would be in terms of the challenge. Maybe he reckons he can boost his star value yet further by coming back to the PL and showing he can still cut it in a more competitive setting?
wait, isn't the spanish league crap according to you? If most teams are as crap as you say then.. Messi is better at football than Ronaldo, why cant you see that, the rest of the world minus a few deluded mancs and Real supporters can see that, Messi is the best of his generation, simples
Ronaldo loves Ronaldo far more than he loves football. So who knows P.S. You rarely see such park the bus performances in laliga compared to the prem! NBo wonder he scores more there
He wouldn't come back to the PL in that case. He's on around £300k a week at Madrid, so he'd need to earn £400k a week in England to net the same what with the tax rates. Even City wouldn't go that high right now what with FFP around the corner.
Isn't there some law coming out in Spain 'Beckhams Law' which is trying to get footballers taxed at a higher rate ? I'm not sure I just thought I had read something about it ? I think Ronaldo may well end up at City as United wouldn't pay the asking price anyway.
Beckham's law was the opposite - it meant foreign footballers coming to Spain were taxed at a lower rate, as they could live in Spain and still claim to be non residents for tax purposes. Real Madrid effectively got it passed so they would be more attractive to "galacticos" like Beckham. They were trying to repeal it cos foreign footballers were only paying 24% tax rather than the 43% that domestic ones do, but in the end they just capped it. Footballers in Spain still pay way less tax than they do in the UK. Not sure City would either tbh - the amortisation charge would be as bad for profits as the wages. Tho' I guess it's all down to Ronaldo - if he really wants to come back to the PL he'll have to be willing to take a cut in net wages no matter where he ends up.
I know but he will have to sign a new deal at madrid at some point. Wont hurt to pretend he might leave when he has to sign. Similar to sneijder and man utd 2 years back. His agent rumoured a move to united but he obviously just wanted a better contract...which he got of course.
I think he has a contract until 2015. The main thing appears to be the rumours that his RM contract has a clause saying he must be the best paid player in the world. Eto'o apparently now gets more than him, so his agent could be threatening to tear the contract up and have him leave for nothing if they don't bump his wages up. Either way, unless Ronaldo wants to go play in Dagestan, no club will be able (due to FFP) to pay him as much as Real can.
Never will that be in his contract. Its completely unworkable. Thats the sort of rumour that is just mindless bs. That clause is impossible. Because its impossible to know for sure what other teams players are getting paid.
Obviously it's dumb, but with the amount of money Real paid for Ronaldo, they clearly wanted him. Would a greedy agent/player who at the time was the best player in the world, put in a stupid clause that would get him more money if someone else made more than he did. I'm not saying its in his contract, but I don't think it's as out of hand as you might think it is.
