by Dalglish » Thu Jun 11, 2009 3:54 pm
Good player, appalling attitude just about sums up Ronaldo. I say good player because the true greats ( Pele, Best, Dalglish, Cryuff, Van Basten, Moore, Charlton etc....... had dignity, a sense of fair play and delivred on against the very best.
He's a younger version of that other abhorrent Premiership role model, Drogba at Chavski. Why these obviously talented and gifted footballers feel the need to dive, pout and disgrace themselves is beyond me.
Towards the end of the season you knew he was as good as gone. The fans lost patience with him last summer after his expressed desitre to go to Real Madrid but the board took a little longer before being tipped over the edge and finally cashing in. 80M return on a 12.2M investment is some going even by today's crazy standards. The Recession doesn't appear to have bit too deep in Spain then !
It will be intersting to see who the Mancs buy with the money. Riberry and/or Valencia look like their on their way to OT but despite who they purchase lets not forget we beat them home and away last season and lost just 2 games all season against their 4 losses. The reality is that we didn't finish 2nd because of Man U but our own inabilities to finish weaker teams than them plus the loss of our 2 best players for significant periods........
