Cristiano Ronaldo has got a 5-star skillmoves rating. His overall rating in FIFA 12 is 92 with a potential of 94. In the pre-Bosman era, when clubs could hold a player's registration and refuse to release it even if that individual's contract had come to an end, footballers could have claimed to be in clubs' thrall.īut the idea that a player such as Ronaldo may, one year into a five-year contract, declare on a whim that he wishes to fulfil a 'dream' of playing in Spain, banishes any notion of contractual arrangements. He is currently 27 years old and plays as a Wide Man for Real Madrid Club de Ftbol in Spain.

Many do so on a number of occasions and enjoy long and successful stays at Old Trafford.'Īrsenal, struggling to keep Emmanuel Adebayor, and Chelsea, whose £130,000-a-week offer to Frank Lampard has been rejected, may empathise, though some would argue that the treatment of Lampard has been less than exemplary. 'Most do so after taking advice from a Fifa-registered agent. 'All our players, like at other clubs, enter into their contracts after an open and free negotiation,' the Old Trafford side said. United led a chorus of opposition yesterday to comments which appear to rank alongside Blatter's legendary assertion that women footballers should wear 'tighter shorts' to make the game easier on the eye. That prognosis is far worse than expected at United, who had hoped he might be fit within six weeks. He agrees he should be allowed to join Real, though he suggested while leaving his rehabilitation clinic in the Algarve that he does not expect to be playing for anyone for 10 or 12 weeks, following his operation.

The metaphor Blatter chose was even more unfortunate than his line of argument which, taken to its logical conclusion would allow for no transfer market and let any player leave for the highest bidder at the drop of a hat, with all the consequences that would have for the sport's poorer clubs. Coming from a 23-year-old who is paid £120,000 a week by a club considering allowing him to complete his recuperation from ankle surgery in the Algarve and delay his return to Manchester, Ronaldo's assertion will prompt as much indignation in football as Blatter did when he said yesterday that players, tied to longer contracts since the Bosman ruling, were enslaved and should be given greater freedom to move on.

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