Madrid to Offer Ronaldo Plus Cash for Neymar Jnr.

by Deji Yesufu

The latest big news in international football is that Real Madrid are willing to offer Christiano Ronaldo plus a lump of money to sign up the Brazilian football star Neymar Jnr. Neymar concluded a whooping £198M tranfer from Barcelona to Paris Saint Germaine just six months ago. Many pundits have been saying that Madrid was actually behind that move, as they would never have been able to acquire the services of the youngster directly from Barcelona since they are bitter rivals in the Spanish football league.

As things will turn in the beginning of this season, Real Madrid has had a very rough start to it. It is struggling at number 4 on the Spanish La Liga table. Just yesterday, it crashed out of the Copa Del Rey; where its second team were trashed on goal advantage by little known Leganes. Its strikers have not been at their best; the goal keeping is woeful and the defence is leaking badly.

The Spanish press are reporting that 70% of Madrid fans are calling for Ronaldo to leave.

Christiano Ronaldo has been demanding for a wage increase from his employers for over a year now. Despite being the current best footballer in the world, Ronaldo is the fifth highest paid footballer in the world; earning a miserly £18M annually; as against £44M that his rival Lionel Messi earns at Barcelona, as the highest paid footballer in the world.

After suffering tax issues, and saying that his club had not supported him in the drama that followed it, Ronaldo had informed his team mates that he was leaving Santiago Bernebeu at the start of the season. To worsen matters, he earned a five match ban at the start of the season and his scoring chances has been at its lowest in his career since. Despite his poor showing at the La-liga, Ronaldo is currently the highest goal scorer in the Champion’s League. Netting 9 goals in the group stages, scoring at least one goal in every match played.

Neymar Jnr. Is however willing to accept a pay cut to come to Madrid. A deal that the management of Real Madrid are likely to accept. And Ronaldo is also likely to accept a move to PSG since that team will very willing pay his demand for pay increase while at the same time cashing on his status as the world best to make quick sales on his shirts, boots and other marketing deals.

My Thoughts on the above development:

I am a late comer into the world of football. I had no team until Real Madrid won the Champion’s League back to back – the first team to carry out such a feat since the inception of the Championship. Christiano Ronaldo was the star player in it all.

I remember the quarter final match against Wolfsburg of Germany in the 2015/16 Champion’s League season. Real Madrid had lost 2-0 to the German team. The second leg was to be played at Madrid. Ronaldo led the pack and scored three un-replied goals to qualify Madrid for the semi-finals. And they went on to win the Champion’s League that year.

I said this to say that if Ronaldo is sold to PSG, it will be the beginning of the end of Madrid as a leading Football team in Europe.

This is what I think: Ronaldo is the best footballer in the world not because he merely scores goals but because there is no footballer in the world that has his kind of determination, motivation and tenacity. He trounces the debate on who is better between himself and Lionel Messi on this bases alone.

Ronaldo is the sort of player that will thrive with age; the same was with Zinedine Zidane. He will go to France, if Madrid lets him, win the league and even go on to win the Champion’s League too; again winning the Ballon D'ior.

Unfortunately, the way things stand, Ronaldo is likely to leave Madrid and Madrid will be the worse for it; especially with talks of even Garret Bale, Luca Modric and Tony Kroos leaving too.

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Madrid should think about this