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Ronaldo's Contract Is Good 'Business' For Real Madrid, But Will He Be Worth It?
November 9th, 2016 | 09:05 AM | 764 views
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Cristiano Ronaldo has signed a new, five-year deal with Real Madrid. The FC panel assess how viable he can be down the road.
I want to be the first to congratulate Real Madrid on renewing the contract of Cristiano Ronaldo and keeping him tied to the club for another five years.
It's a searingly good piece of football business -- utterly brilliant work.
There isn't another footballer like him anywhere in the world, and ensuring that his power, his goals, his ambition and his kudos remain tied to los Blancos is the kind of business all the other chairmen and presidents wish they were completing right now. The trophies that have come to the Bernabeu, thanks to CR7, represent merely a down payment on what's to come, for these are the golden years.
More experienced and a better leader, Ronaldo is a phenomenal athlete and goal scorer who is at the point of accepting that, rather than the team moulding to his needs, it's his turn to show flexibility and alter his blistering will to win to benefit the team.
Take Ferenc Puskas as an example of what 31-year-olds made of "the right stuff" can achieve at this club. He signed for Madrid at the age Ronaldo is now and went on to score more than 150 goals in not many more matches.
With due deference to the extraordinary Hungarian, Ronaldo is about 15 times the athlete he was. This is a guy who has outscored two of Madrid's all-time greats -- indeed, perhaps the two all-time greats: Alfredo Di Stefano and Raul. What's more, he trounced their goals-per-game ratios. He smashed them.
In pure football terms, if the opportunity arose, then any great club would immediately snap up the Portuguese forward, who is a European champion with club and country as he signs this mega deal. As such, this is an ultra-shrewd move by his employers.
What's more, Ronaldo sees himself playing until he's 39 or 40 and retiring at Madrid. His hunger, enthusiasm and appetite for hard work remain utterly intact. So set aside petty club jealousies and look purely at the footballing facts, and salute Madrid for making an unquestionably modern, intelligent and long-yielding decision.
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courtesy of ESPNFC
by GRAHAM HUNTER
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