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The Brazil striker has set his sights on Highbury after being singled out for criticism by his coach at Real Madrid.
Vicente del Bosque questioned Ronaldo's commitment to the team and labelled him a "little self-governing island" that has not improved the European Champions.
And after being told about the Premiership by Steve McManaman, the 26-year-old superstar may yet follow Gilberto Silva to north London.
"Arsenal are one of the great, traditional English clubs so perhaps I should go and play for them," he said.
"The idea of taking my career to the Premiership is very attractive. I know a lot about football and admire the achievements of Arsenal and Manchester United."
His Bernebau future was cast into doubt as Del Bosque hinted that his days may be numbered unless he improves his performance level.
"All my players are committed to working for the team," said the Real coach. "There is only who stands out from that, Ronaldo.
"As a coach, if you are happy with someone behaving like that because he thinks he is a star then fine. If not, you find someone else who follows team rules."
*Oh Ronaldo? he's way better than Henry. I mean soooooo much better it's not even funny. I wish we had Ronaldo on our team instead of Henry.*
He's going to stick up for his team mate and fellow countryman. I bet secretly he'd love to have Ronaldo playing with him.
From Football365.com
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WE DON’T NEED RONALDO – VIEIRA
Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira believes that team-mate Thierry Henry is a better player than Brazil star Ronaldo, after reports claiming the World Cup winner would like to move to Highbury.
Ronaldo claimed on Friday that he would consider a move to the Premiership giants after a fall-out with Real Madrid boss Vicente del Bosque.
The World Player of the Year had been criticised for not being a committed team player.
Vieira told BBC London: "We have Thierry Henry and at the moment he's better than Ronaldo. Thierry is fantastic for us so we don't need anybody else."
A switch to Arsenal would pair the World Cup's golden boot with fellow Brazilian Gilberto Silva.
> You might be right, however I cannot see Real letting him go no matter
> what the coach thinks.
Very true, it'd take one hell of a fight between Del Bosque and Ronaldo for Madrid to actually consider selling him and if they did it'd be for a very high price
> Anyway, Ronaldo's not good enough to play for Arsenal! :-)
Ooooh i haven't laughed so hard like this for a while. Thanx alot Wookie for that.
> lalakersrule wrote:
> Yea how could Man Utd, the world's richest club, ever afford him?
>
> Because by paying him the wages he would demand, they would have to
> pay the same to about 6 other players, hence the fact they could not
> afford him
Beckham's getting 100k a week (god knows what for though) and i don't see any of the others rushing to Ferguson demanding they get paid the same amount so why should it be any different if Ronaldo joins? With the amount of advertising Ronaldo would bring with him along with loads of brazilian fans he'd pay for himself really. Also Nike can't be too happy that one of their main players is playing for a team sponsored by their biggest rivals so i'm sure they'd help United out a bit as well if they needed it to get him away from Real
Yea how could Man Utd, the world's richest club, ever afford him?
Because by paying him the wages he would demand, they would have to pay the same to about 6 other players, hence the fact they could not afford him. Real madrid do not have to worry about the city or shareholders, their debts are just written off by the banks, their biggest shareholders.
> Yea how could Man Utd, the world's richest club, ever afford him?
They wouldn't be the richest club in the world for long!
Anyway, Ronaldo's not good enough to play for Arsenal! :-)