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Michel Platini withstands Ronaldo transfer fee criticism

cleo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:09:56 +0000

UEFA president Michael Platini has maintained his stand on the fact that he viewed the record signing of Cristiano Ronaldo by Real Madrid as indecent. Real Madrid has reportedly signed Ronaldo for a whopping 94 million euros. The UEFA president who was on a visit to the Spanish giants’ stadium expressed his opinion that the amount seemed indecent in a news conference at the Santiago Bernabeu. The remarks came just before the clash between Real and AC Milan in the Champions League. The following transfer rumors spread like a wildfire and seem to be really hot.

Platini who sat beside Florentino Perez, the President of the Real Madrid, admitted to having no problems with the signing as he felt that it was not a big deal for a club like Real who has the money to make such record signing. Everything seemed perfectly alright between the two top guns. UEFA had earlier sought to curb the splurges which the clubs had been indulging in. Perez also went up to the extent of saying that the relationship between Real Madrid and UEFA and between its officials have always been smooth and hoped that it would continue to remain so. He described the ties between two parties as excellent.

Real Madrid came under the hammer for signing Ronaldo from Manchester City and Kaka from AC Milan. Platini has termed the transfers as a serious challenge to the idea of fairplay and the Vatican newspaper felt that the Real’s spending splurge may push soccer clubs towards bankruptcy. Perez who has the credit of bringing top notch stars like Zidane and Figo to Real, made it public that the club has a budget of 422 million euros in the upcoming season.

The Ronaldinho Question

jason — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:08:57 +0000

The Big question is: How much longer will Ronaldinho be with Barcelona. I have much respect for ‘Dinho, but he lately does not show true class and ‘Soccer love and devotion’. He has been out late at night clubs and his late showings at Camp Nou and this current season have been very bad.

There are however possible reasons for this kind of behavior as can be seen with certain superstars that “could have been” or “were thought of have been”.

Some players come from poverty
Fame gets to their head
The team stops putting normal pressure on them

Analysis: Due to some players coming from literal poverty, the sudden fame and money that is at their hands goes to their head. Since they get this way, sometimes their level of play declines(sometime A LOT). Often these players will flaunt their wealth, not that this is a bad thing, but sometimes it is unnecessary. Sometimes their careers or expectations go down the tube…literally.

Anyhow: What will happen to Ronaldinho, will Barca keep him and next season he will be back and re-focused? Or will he get better in mid-season? Or will he continue these ways and end up on the transfer block?

Woodgate bought by Tottenham

jason — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:38:03 +0000

In the English Premiership, Tottenham Hotspur has bought defense man Jonathan Woodgate for a reported £7, roughly 14 million dollars U.S. This puts a cap on all the speculation that he would be headed for Arsenal and his former club Newcastle United.

Middlesbrough allowed the transfer to be done because it was clear Woodgate wanted out or at the very least a change. Eurosport got a quote from Middlesbrough boss, stating “It seems he wanted to head off”.

ESPN is also reporting that the deal will be finalized sometime tomorrow, Tuesday January 29.

Best of Luck Woody!