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Fergie hails 'brilliant' Glazers
Impatient foreign owners may have caused problems for the manager this season at clubs such as Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City, but Sir Alex Ferguson claims the Glazer family have been "brilliant" for Manchester United. So much so that they would keep the club's most valuable player, Cristiano Ronaldo, even if his desire to move to Spain pushed him as far as refusing to play for United, who are furious at Real Madrid's attempts to unsettle him.
Ferguson says the owners share his contempt for Madrid, who succeeded in luring Ruud van Nistelrooy and David Beckham to the Bernabeu but have been threatened by United with an official complaint to Fifa if they continue making their desire to sign Ronaldo public through the media.
"I've had a couple of meetings with the Glazers," Ferguson says. "Their attitude is, 'To hell with them'. They'd sit a player in the stand, I'm telling you, absolutely no doubt about it, just to prove a point. Not to give in to these people. They've got balls, I can tell you. I've been delighted with them in that respect."
The Glazer family's £800 million takeover in 2005 caused such ructions among some fans that they formed a breakaway club, the successful FC United of Manchester. Interest payments on the loans the Americans had to raise are believed to be £62m a year, but Ferguson says: "They've been good to this club, believe me. They have been brilliant owners. All the nonsense about them taking the club over and putting it in debt; every takeover in the world is done by debt. If I wanted to buy Marks and Spencer do you think I could just go under the floorboards and pull out £3bn? No, I'd go to the Bank of Scotland. Even in this recession they'd get £1.3bn for United now."
United's Supporters Trust are unconvinced, but other fans have been won over by the Glazers' willingness to let Ferguson work without apparent interference as well as their provision of an abundant transfer kitty.
Glazers tell Sir Alex Ferguson: Real Madrid can go 'to hell' over Cristiano Ronaldo transfer
Any doubt that Cristiano Ronaldo is to stay at Manchester United has been swept away by Sir Alex Ferguson, who said the club's American owners, the Glazer family, would ''sit a player in the stand" rather than yield to pressure from Real Madrid to sell the two-time Footballer Of The Year.
What seems to be going on, as Ronaldo prepares for Portugal's opening European Championship match against Turkey next Saturday, is a game involving the player's agent, Jorge Mendes. Recently the United board took the unusual step of denying reports that they were ready to negotiate improved terms with Ronaldo. But Ferguson would probably support any measure to keep the 42-goal star of the Premier and Champions League double and he remains utterly confident that this time, whatever may have happened in the cases of David Beckham and Ruud van Nistelrooy, the Spaniards will not get their man.
Real Madrid sporting director Predrag Mijatovic, meanwhile, has insisted that they have no agreement already in place with Ronaldo. "He is an objective, but we cannot do anything if his club do not want to part with him. Until this time we do not have anything with the player," he told Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias.
Mijatovic added: ''It is clear that we are interested, but he has a team and never will we go against the rules of Fifa and Uefa".
Fergie hails 'brilliant' Glazers
Impatient foreign owners may have caused problems for the manager this season at clubs such as Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City, but Sir Alex Ferguson claims the Glazer family have been "brilliant" for Manchester United. So much so that they would keep the club's most valuable player, Cristiano Ronaldo, even if his desire to move to Spain pushed him as far as refusing to play for United, who are furious at Real Madrid's attempts to unsettle him.
Ferguson says the owners share his contempt for Madrid, who succeeded in luring Ruud van Nistelrooy and David Beckham to the Bernabeu but have been threatened by United with an official complaint to Fifa if they continue making their desire to sign Ronaldo public through the media.
"I've had a couple of meetings with the Glazers," Ferguson says. "Their attitude is, 'To hell with them'. They'd sit a player in the stand, I'm telling you, absolutely no doubt about it, just to prove a point. Not to give in to these people. They've got balls, I can tell you. I've been delighted with them in that respect."
The Glazer family's £800 million takeover in 2005 caused such ructions among some fans that they formed a breakaway club, the successful FC United of Manchester. Interest payments on the loans the Americans had to raise are believed to be £62m a year, but Ferguson says: "They've been good to this club, believe me. They have been brilliant owners. All the nonsense about them taking the club over and putting it in debt; every takeover in the world is done by debt. If I wanted to buy Marks and Spencer do you think I could just go under the floorboards and pull out £3bn? No, I'd go to the Bank of Scotland. Even in this recession they'd get £1.3bn for United now."
United's Supporters Trust are unconvinced, but other fans have been won over by the Glazers' willingness to let Ferguson work without apparent interference as well as their provision of an abundant transfer kitty.
Glazers tell Sir Alex Ferguson: Real Madrid can go 'to hell' over Cristiano Ronaldo transfer
Any doubt that Cristiano Ronaldo is to stay at Manchester United has been swept away by Sir Alex Ferguson, who said the club's American owners, the Glazer family, would ''sit a player in the stand" rather than yield to pressure from Real Madrid to sell the two-time Footballer Of The Year.
What seems to be going on, as Ronaldo prepares for Portugal's opening European Championship match against Turkey next Saturday, is a game involving the player's agent, Jorge Mendes. Recently the United board took the unusual step of denying reports that they were ready to negotiate improved terms with Ronaldo. But Ferguson would probably support any measure to keep the 42-goal star of the Premier and Champions League double and he remains utterly confident that this time, whatever may have happened in the cases of David Beckham and Ruud van Nistelrooy, the Spaniards will not get their man.
Real Madrid sporting director Predrag Mijatovic, meanwhile, has insisted that they have no agreement already in place with Ronaldo. "He is an objective, but we cannot do anything if his club do not want to part with him. Until this time we do not have anything with the player," he told Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias.
Mijatovic added: ''It is clear that we are interested, but he has a team and never will we go against the rules of Fifa and Uefa".
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