Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the most hated, respected, ridiculed and loved football stars today. He is a true icon – splitting public opinion right down the middle. A Portuguese national and a Manchester United star, the right-winger had a career-changing 2006/2007 season, when he came in off an excellent World Cup performance (although people only remembered the diving and the Rooney incident) and led Manchester United to their first Premiership title in four years.
He’s a good player, that boy Ronaldo.
5 worst comeback ideas for Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo is due to make his Manchester United comeback against Villarreal in the Champions League tonight. Sir Alex Ferguson is convinced the Portuguese winger will be well-received by the Old Trafford faithful, despite his protracted summer transfer saga. Fergie thinks Manchester United fans will forgive Ronaldo, so here is some pointers of things he…
Manchester United hoping to bring back Ronaldo for Chelsea game
Sir Alex Ferguson has said that Ronaldo could feature at Stamford Bridge next weekend as the winger makes rapid progress in regaining fitness after his ankle operation in July. SAF:
Premier League title will stay in Manchester this season
With few weeks remaining in the transfer window, the media were eager to write off the current English and European Champions from retaining their Premiership crown. The logic behind it was that Chelsea now had a better manager than last season and they had signed Deco. As they had finished so close to United the…
Football makes ‘Sweet Dreams’ come true
You know what really stood out about the recently closed transfer window? Not the brinksmanship, the complaints about tapping up, or even the idea of billion-dollar teams squabbling over a couple million pounds. The one thing that really stood out to me was all the talk about “dream moves.” It seemed like every high-profile star…
Top 10 Most Expensive Football Transfers
Compared to the lion that was the summer of 2009, when we saw Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic move to pastures anew for a combined fee of more than £200m, it would seem appropriate to consider the 2010 summer transfer season, and for that matter, most others, a veritable lamb, unless you’re Manchester City….
5 ‘Box-Office Superstars’ Manchester City will try to sign
First Ronaldinho, now Henry – it seems that Manchester City, like it or not, are hell bent on making a star signing who can help raise the club’s profile across the world. Jo and Kompany are starts, but to really get things going Cook and co. want a BIG name. With that in mind, here…
Can Scholes join Ronaldo, Ferdinand and van der Sar in UEFA’s 2008 Team of the Year?
Every year UEFA nominates the best players in club football in Europe with the final awards presented on the eve of the end-of-August UEFA Super Cup. Last year we saw AC Milan’s Kaka, Maldini and Seedorf take the plaudits with Petr Cech rounding off the four and in the process denying Milan a clean sweep….
Queiroz fingers Ronaldo as future Portugal striker – will that work for United?
Portugal’s new manager Carlos Queiroz has said that expects Cristiano Ronaldo to lead Portugal’s front line when he returns from his post-surgical rest. “I see only one position for Cristiano Ronaldo to play. And I hope he will be playing 90 percent of the game on the attacking line.” Could Ronaldo play the same role…
49% of fans blame Ronaldo, 28% blame the Press
Last week Soccerlens asked readers who they blamed for the torturous summer-long United-Ronaldo-Madrid saga. The results are detailed below:
Should Fergie keep playing Ronaldo as a striker?
This whole preseason for Manchester United has been dominated by two issues: Ronaldo and the search for a striker. Here is another take on those two issues: why Ronaldo is or will be the best striker in the world. While it is not exactly the world’s greatest discovery to understand that a player who scored…
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