Can Ronaldo turn his back on Ferguson?
Alex Ferguson's remaining time at United will be tough without Cristiano Ronaldo.
After nearly 22 years in the Old Trafford hot-seat, back-toback Premier League titles and a second Champions League win, Ferguson could have been forgiven for thinking the two seasons he has given himself to achieve any remaining ambitions would be relatively stress free.
Instead, the Ronaldo issue, which came to light before the dust had even settled on United's penalty shoot-out win over Chelsea in Moscow, is rumbling towards a distinctly unsatisfactory conclusion.
While Ferguson will have no problem sticking to the club mantra of Ronaldo not being for sale at any price, he cannot know what lengths the 23-year-old will be prepared to go to in order to get his wish.
Veiled threats of strike action should United refuse to deal with Real Madrid in the three weeks between Ronaldo completing his stint at Euro 2008 with Portugal and a scheduled return to training have been treated with scepticism at Old Trafford.
United officials believe once Ferguson or his trusted assistant Carlos Queiroz speak to Ronaldo they will have a far better understanding of each other's position.
But at this point it appears that Ronaldo is not for turning.
It s a problem Ferguson could certainly have done without the hassle of at this stage of his illustrious career and Ronaldo might well be about to discover, even at 66, he is not a man to cross.
So what should Ronaldo do, stay or go? Our writers examine the cases for and against.
If he goes there will be trouble, believes Eamon Carr
The burning question over thelast few weeks has beenobvious. What way are youvoting on the CR7 question?
The No vote lobby is a noisy and passionate rump. They reckon that Manchester United would be better off cashing in their chips and letting Cristiano Ronaldo head for Madrid than making an effort to keep him at Old Trafford.
I've heard all the arguments, many made by commentators I admire. But I'm astonished at how even some of the keenest brains in football punditry miss the most salient of facts. In many cases, it's as if those who urge Man United to sell are motivated by some deep-rooted personal animosity. You know the sort. The ones who frequently argue that ageing Paul Scholes, bless him, is more deserving of Man of Match status that the goal-scoring machine from Portugal.
While I mightn't expect Ronaldo to be a marvellous dinner party guest, I can see that the CR7 brand is both lucrative and desirable.
The next time I'm speaking to some of Alex Ferguson's advisers I'll tell them the Big Man is right to fight to keep the scoring ace in his squad. I'll urge them not to throw the sulking baby out with the bath water.
It's difficult to argue against a goalscorer who's knocked in an extraordinary 42 goals in a season. Especially when Ferguson has cleverly constructed a team of talented grafters to ensure a regular supply of ammunition for the sniper.
And when the lad looks at his scoring record, and is voted player of the year by his peers, it's only natural that he'd expect to see his contribution to the company's success reflected in his pay packet.
If someone turns in good performance results, in any job, they can look forward to a pay rise or handsome bonus. Why not Cristiano Ronaldo? Because we think he's lazy? Because we think he pouts too much? Because we don't like the way he regularly whips off his shirt and taunts us with the cylinders of his six-pack?
Not good enough reasons to allow him to ruin his career by throwing himself on the footballing scrapheap that Real Madrid has become.
Why should Alex Ferguson sit back and watch the investment he nurtured be sold off at this early stage? The lad is just 23 and Ferguson has done wonders for his game. Remember the rumpus when Ronaldo got England's Wayne Rooney sent off, and then winked, in the last World Cup? It was Ferguson who smoothed the ground for Ronaldo on that occasion. And his ingenious man-management skills have turned Ronaldo into the hottest footballing property on the planet and an unlikely players' player of the year.
A cold-eyed, pragmatic market analysis would suggest that the CR7 market hasn't peaked yet. Ferguson is likely to reap more goal-scoring dividends from this project. It's clear to even the dimmest observer that there are difficiencies in Ronaldo's overall game. But how many players are the complete package?
Ronaldo's best years are ahead of him. And who better to develop his talent that the canny Scot?
Ferguson has form in this department. Hasn't he proved time and again that he's the master at getting the best out of difficult talent? No better man to give a moody player a kick in the arse if necessary to motivate him.
Ronaldo and Ferguson. It's a sporting partnership made in heaven. And, with the kid just 23, there could be exciting times ahead.
If Man United's marketing whizz-kids have a titter of wit they'll be locking down some extremely lucrative longterm sponsorship and merchandising deals around the player.
It's said there's big money pending a Nike CR7 boot deal that would net Ronaldo 25m. With Man United's reputation for excellence and glory at its highest in years, and with Cristiano Ronaldo as the posterboy for success, the Glazers have a gilt-edged opportunity to copperfasten a series of global revenue streams that will flow well into the future.
So, give the lad a pay rise and be done with it.
Send CR7 on a glitzy Man United shirt-selling expedition to the Far East and let Alex Ferguson enjoy his summer holidays in peace.
If he stays there will be double argues Paul Hyland
Alex Ferguson holds all the cards but even the wiliest of poker players sometimes allow pride to mess up their mojo. He should cash in his Portuguese jack-in-thebox and smile all the way to the bank.
Ronaldo is on a five-year contract and can only play football if Ferguson lets him. With that in his back pocket, Fergie is sitting pretty.
He's absolutely seething, though. His wonder boy has repaid belief and loyalty with a poke in the eye if it was anyone else but Ronaldo, he'd be gone by now.
The Glazers, we're told, are also perturbed, though the quietest Americans in the Premier League must have their calculators out right now.
No doubt they won't want to be pushed around by Real Madrid. In the battle of the brands, no other clubs carry a bigger global reputation, but they must have set a price for Ronaldo in their own minds at least.
They would be mad not to sell him and in the end the decision is likely to be taken out of Fergie's hands by the sheer scale of the money Madrid President Ramon Calderon seems ready to spend.
Ferguson made much of the fact that the Glazers and CEO David Gill were adamant that they would not sell Ronaldo at any price but that's the kind of cartoon quote that means very little when the price is right.
Just how much Calderon is prepared to part with remains to be seen but anything about the 60m mark would cause a great deal of soul-searching in the Manchester United boardroom.
At that price, they should waste no time telling Ronaldo to pack his bags after Euro 2008 and the logic is simple enough.
At almost every stage of his lengthy career as Old Trafford supremo, Ferguson has dumped key players without ceremony and Manchester United keep on winning.
Bryan Robson was the only Ferguson lieutenant who lingered past his useful shelf life. The rest were shoved out the door without ceremony or sentiment and the show rolled on.
With a cash injection of 50m or 60m to add to a similar amount available should he need to add to the current squad, Ferguson would be in a position to bid for any and every player.
Sure, Ronaldo has a phenomenal scoring record over the last two seasons and no team can easily lose a talent like his. Sure, it took five years to blend him into the squad and turn him from a petulant show pony into a successful show pony.
But 100m gives you a lot of room for manoeuvre and surely enough cash to buy in two or three top quality international strikers and still have change left over.
Ferguson clearly believed he had found the missing link in Ronaldo, the man who could bring the Champions League to Old Trafford on a regular basis over the coming years, but if the kid doesn't want to play for him, he should swallow his disappointment, grit his teeth and cash in his chips.
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