How is he overated :unsure:

 

40+ goals season before last and $h!tloads of assists

 

Last season despite injured much of the season he still scored the most goals in the country, the guy is a massive talent

 

All this from a guy who is a glorified winger not a natural centre forward

Edited June 11, 200916 yr by B.A Baracus

How is he overated :unsure:

 

40+ goals season before last and $h!tloads of assists

 

Last season despite injured much of the season he still scored the most goals in the country, the guy is a massive talent

 

All this from a guy who is a glorified winger not a natural centre forward

 

Ronaldo is not a winger first off! Like I say he interchanges and often becomes the front man. He's not a winger in the sense Lennon or Ribery are, and he's not a right midfielder in the mold of Beckham. Man Utd play their whole game around him. Without him they don't play as well (both beginnings of the previous 2 seasons where he's been injured and suspended). That's not because they miss him as such, it's just that they play their game around him. For Portugal he never looks as good as he does for Man Utd.

 

40 goals as well. Yep that's a lot, but how many were penalties? At least a quarter were, probably more. He's a good player yes, but he's not some kind of world beater on the level of Pele or Maradona. He's overrated to absolute $h!t all because he scored all these goals last season.

He must've started 80% of his games on the wing this season, interchanging between left and right. It was only when the 4-5-1 (Rooney playing on the left) formation came into place that he played as the lone striker or interchanging with the lone striker, which in fairness must've been about 7-8 matches tops.

 

And as for the goals, in the season where he scored 42 goals only 6 were penalties which is far from a quarter. 5 were free kicks, 10 were headers and 7 were out of the box. If that's not versatility then I'm not exactly sure what is. He's as over-rated as Torres or Gerrard is tbf.

 

Anyone who believes this Real outfit is just gonna click into place straight away next season is being a tad optimistic though imo. Everytime a freekick needs to be taken, Kaka and Ronaldo will step up. Add Villa, Silva and whoever else to the mix and it's bound to cause some problems. As has been said, it was the defence that was the problem last year. Not so dissimilar to City, they can strengthen the attack as much as they like but it's the teams with great defences that win trophies.

Was it only 6 penalties? Could have sworn it was more, but i'll stand corrected.

 

I still think he's majorly overrated though. Certainly a great player, but as good as Iniesta or Messi? Nah. Last season he was pretty good i'll give him that, and he was definitely the best player in the world 2007, but now definitely not. Think all the praise got to his head a little, but I wouldn't even rate him as the best player in the Premier League anymore let alone the best in the world.

 

These Real Madrid signings will work as well I reckon. Not straight away, but stranger things have happened. They definitely need a commanding centre back, but i'd be suprised if they bought one. Perez has taken a massive gamble with Madrid, if it doesn't pay off then they're screwed.

I don't get this stuff about Lennon not being good enough for Man Utd

 

He is better than the likes of O'Shea, Anderson, Fletcher, Nani and Park and that Darron kid not to mention Campbell all of which feature at Utd most of the time if not sometimes, I don't want rid of Lennon I will be pissed off if OWF pillages our team again like he has done with Carrick and Berbatov but I am a realist, Lennon also made mincemeat of Evra in the CC final and the game at WHL and that won't have gone unnoticed by OWF

Lennon is far too inconsistant. He may have made mincemeat of Evra twice but then I saw him twice last season, and on both occasions he was about the worst player on the field. I remember he played really well against Blackburn and got their really awful left back sent off. It was just before an England match and the MOTD pundits said Capello would be mad not to call him up. I thought that I'm sure Capello will trust his number two when he tells him that Lennon was completely outclassed by the likes of Michael Kightly and Craig Gardner just four days previous and couldn't get into the game at all. Needless to say he wasn't called up!

Edited June 12, 200916 yr by RabbitFurCoat

SEPP BLATTER last night performed a stunning U-turn by giving Cristiano Ronaldo’s £80 million move to Real Madrid a huge presidential seal of approval.

 

 

In the past Blatter has rounded fiercely on big-cash transfers, singling out Premier League clubs for being greedy and flouting the ethics of football.

 

But on the eve of tomorrow’s Confederations Cup, FIFA president Blatter gave the opposite reaction to Ronaldo’s prospective exit from Manchester United to join Real for a world-record fee.

 

“There is an economic crisis and we are talking about a very sensitive market,” said Blatter. “But if that is happening in football, it means our product is a good one. It’s not just a question of selling or buying, football gives people what they want.”

 

Blatter’s comments appeared to be a deliberate ploy to disagree with rival Michel Platini, the UEFA boss, who used to be his right-hand man.

 

The pair have fallen out in recent months after UEFA refused to back Blatter’s controversial six-plus- five rule concerning home-grown players, instead opting for a more palatable, less forceful way of procuring the development of domestically-trained players.

 

On Thursday, Platini attacked the Ronaldo transfer in no uncertain terms, calling it excessive and labelling such transfers “a serious challenge to the idea of fair play and the concept of financial balance in our competitions.”

 

Conversely Blatter, taking one and only one question on football’s most sensational transfer at the end of his pre-tournament press conference, appeared totally untroubled by Ronaldo’s switch from Old Trafford to the Bernabeu.

 

“Football is the game of the people, they have to have stars,” said Blatter

Insisting that market values dictate transfer sums, Blatter’s whole approach was in stark contrast with previous rants about the excessive spending power of English clubs. The message seemed to be that buying a player for £80m was OK so long as the purchaser was not from the Premier League.

 

“What is £80m now? What does this mean?” asked Blatter. “It means that there is still a demand to have players like this.

 

“I heard what you could buy with this kind of money but we are talking about entertainment. Ten years or so ago I remember a Picasso painting being sold for more than £100m. What happened to it? It was hidden from public view.

 

“A player has been billed as a star and, by contrast, is there every week.”

 

 

I'd forgotten how much of an idiot this man was. At least Platini has some sense on the matter (and in football as well).

I agree with Blatter tbh, it is the business of football clubs to decide how much they can or can't afford to spend there will never be financial equality in football so if a club can afford to buy a player for 50,80,100m or whatever then thats market forces it is not anyone's business such as Platini to tell clubs what they can and can't spend he should keep his beak out of the business of individual football teams