Real Madrid president Ramón Calderón has insisted that the Spanish
giants only pursued Cristiano Ronaldo in the summer because the player
told them that he wanted to join them.
Los Merengues' supremo recognised that it could have damaged the club's relationship
with the Premier League oufit, but stated that he only pushed because
he thought the Portuguese star would do the same.
The Ronaldo
saga lasted throughout the pre-season transfer window and dominated
sports pages around the world, only for the whole thing to collapse
when United stated that they would not sell.
Now Caldéron has
reflected on the relentless chase and admitted that the only did it
because he believed that he was helping the player to make his dream
come true.
"We have left that, it has been a very big story, which we didn't provoke," he told Sky Sports News. "The player said he wanted to come here, a dream to come to Real Madrid and we received and we were happy to know that.
"After
that I talked to Manchester [United] but [chief executive] David Gill
was very clear and said they did not want to sell at all.
"We
want to have a good relation with all the big clubs in Europe and
Manchester [United] is one of the best and I would like to have a good
relationship with them forever, and they said for the moment no.
"I
know the media in general like to give excitement to their readers and
listeners and Cristiano Ronaldo is a fantastic player and he has won
the Golden Ball - and I congratulate him on that and I wish him the
best - regardless of where he is going to be in the future."
lol so long liao still bring up
everyone knows ronaldo wanna join them, is SAF don let only.
This joker didn't mentioned using Marca and AS and their behaviour...
ronaldo sometimes can be kau peh kau bu.
won't it be wonderful if MU gets them, and dump them out of UCL....