That's the change made by a performance-loving lad who is eager to prove to everyone how awesome he is. Yes, that's it, so many talented players are just as eager to prove how good they are. No one could stop him from proving himself, no matter how many tackles and fouls he was subjected to, and what he did showed that pride: "You can't stand in my way, I'm Ronaldo." He is very brave and confident in his abilities. In my eyes and that of other Manchester United players, he elevated himself to the point where those around him began to fear his talents.
His teammates were very good to him in training and they helped him learn and improve. At Carrington, he would scream "Ah" at first when he was brought down, and the other players would glare at him, and soon he had cleverly learned to stop being so noisy. He was a clever kid, and once he realized that no one in the other players he was training with wanted to listen to his screams and watch his amateur performances, he stopped doing so, and gradually he stopped playing these bad habits. He had a couple of exaggerations to earn fouls in his final season at United, but no one else was much better. In a game against Bolton In 2008, he got a penalty he didn't deserve. But it wasn't that he deliberately fought for it, but the referee made a mistake. Opposing defenders stretched out to scramble for the ball, and a clean steal brought Ronaldo to the ground. It was referee on duty, Robert Stiles, not Ronaldo, who should be embarrassed that time.
Although everyone said they could have signed him that year (real madrid and Arsenal had said so), we had a partnership with his parent team in Portugal, Sporting Lisbon, and we exchanged coaches with each other. When Queiroz joined United in 2002, he told me: "Sporting Lisbon has a kid who deserves our attention.
Which one are you talking about?" I asked. Because there are two or three of these people.
Ronaldo. He replied. We knew Cristiano so well that he was still playing as a center. Carlos said we had to do something because he was special. So as part of the reciprocal deal, we sent Jim Ryan to observe Athletic Lisbon training. Jim came back and told us, "Wow, I found a player. I think he should play as a winger, but his position in the youth team is a centre-forward. I don't think we'll wait too long, and when he's 17, he'll gamble on him. ”
So we brought the name of the Star of Hope into the conversation with Sporting Lisbon, and the response was that they wanted to have him for two more years. I suggested making a deal where he was on The Tracks for two years and then we brought him to England. At this stage we didn't talk to the player himself or his agent, just a discussion between clubs.
That summer Carlos went to Real Madrid, we went to the United States to play the Tour, Peter Kenyan left, juan Sebastian Perón left. Playing a friendly match with them at Sporting Lisbon's new stadium is part of the pre-season arrangement, which was built for Euro 2004.
The game began, with John O'Man at right-back. People swore that it was Gary Neville who was in that disgraceful position, but it was actually Auche. Ronaldo's first pass made me feel like a needle in a haystack, and I roared: "John, you must stay close to him John shrugged helplessly, a look of pain and confusion." The other players on the bench said, "Oh my God, boss, he's amazing."
It's okay, I've taken him down. "I said, like the deal was made 10 years ago. I called Albert, the equipment manager, "At halftime, you go to the director's box and call Ken Young down." Then I said to Peter, "If we don't sign that kid, we're not going to leave here today."
"Is he that good?" Kenyon.
John O'Shea had a migraine from him!" I said, "Sign him off."
Ken young contacted people in Lisbon to get permission to talk to Cristiano. They informed him that Real Madrid had offered him an offer of £8 million.
"Then we'll give 9 million." I say.
Ronaldo and his agent were in a small room downstairs, where I told him how much we wanted him to play for Manchester United. In front of Zoe Mendes, I said, "Now I'm going to tell you that you're not going to play every week, but you're going to be part of the first team, and I have no doubt about that." Now that you're 17 years old, it will take time to adjust to your new environment, and we'll take good care of you. ”
The next day we chartered a private jet and sent him, his mother and sister, Gerdes and his lawyer. We need to close this deal as soon as possible, speed is life. When I was in Glasgow, I personally played as a scout. I always say to the scouts I hire, "It feels pretty good when you're sure that the player you're testing for is going to be a first-class star."
One night I was watching the movie White Fang, an adaptation of a novel by Jack London about the Klondike Gold Rush, and scouts looking for players felt like gold panning. On Saturday morning you stand on the sidelines watching the game, and then you see a Joe Best, a Ryan Giggs or a Bobby Charlton, and that's what I felt in Lisbon that day.
It was the biggest wave of excitement and anticipation I felt in my coaching career. The second was in Paul Gascoyne, but for different reasons. On the Monday after Easter 1988, we visited St James' Park, when Newcastle was fighting for relegation and Gascoin had just returned from injury. I'm out of Norman Whitesett and Remy Moses in the middle of the midfield, and they're not the kind of teenage duet you can dance around. However, right in front of me standing on the sidelines, Gascoigne asked Moses for a crotch-piercing scene, then patted him on the head, and I rushed out of the bench and shouted, "Stare at that ××!"
Whiteside and Moses tried desperately to let Gascoin know that what he had just done was so wrong, and they decided to teach him a lesson, but Gascoe deftly let them pounce.
We tried desperately to sign him that summer, but Newcastle sold him to Tottenham Hotspur. Once you've seen this with your own eyes, you'll understand that that moment was one of those moments of your coaching career that you were chasing every moment, and the excitement of exploring and discovering made me extremely eager to sign Gascoign on the same day.
Unlike the signing of Gascoin, we managed to sign Ronaldo, and the transaction was completed by Ken Young. I think Sporting Lisbon is happy not to sell him to a Spanish club. The deal was struck quickly, with transfer fees of up to around £1.2 million under additional terms, including one: If we were to sell him, Sporting Lisbon had the option to buy back. A few days before selling Ronaldo to Real Madrid, we told Sporting Lisbon that they could buy it back, just £80 million. Not surprisingly, they didn't write a check.
When Cristiano started his new life in Cheshire, it was good to have his mother and sister with him. As you can imagine, his mother has a strong maternal and protective desire, and the person is also very good, a woman who is outspoken and unpretentious. I explained to Ronaldo that the ⊙ of The Show and Barry Morehouse would help them with problems like housing and bank accounts. We found a secluded place for them, just near Alderiege, and they quickly went inside.
After the match with Sporting Lisbon, we returned to the UK on a plane leased to us by the Dallas Cowboys. Ferdinand, Giggs, Scholes and Neville Road are all excited about Ronaldo: "Sign him, sign him.
So, when Ronaldo walked into the training ground, he found that the Manchester United players knew him, they all knew how good he was, which may have helped him integrate into the team.
His first-team debut came off the bench in a home game against Bolton On 16 August 2003, when Bolton's defence was scrambled by him. At first their right back Z chattered at him in the middle circle and broke his ball, but Ronaldo immediately got up and reached for the ball again. "Anyway, this kid has a kind of thing." I thought.
Soon, he was pulled down inside the penalty area and won a penalty, and Van Nicholas was traded off. After that, Ronaldo spontaneously ran to the right wing and delivered two beautiful crosses. One of them was picked up by Scholes and then passed to Van Nistruy, whose shot was deflected by the goalkeeper, and Gus scored a second goal for United, and the fans on the sidelines reacted as if they saw that the latter was the current savior. Old Trafford fans can quickly set up their hero and when they see a player who can make them get up and cheer, they will quickly fall in love with him. Ronaldo is the most influential star among United fans since Eric Cantona, and while he has never reached the point where He has made Fans almost blindly adored like Cantona, it is because Eric has a unique charisma in the world, but Ronaldo's talent is unquestionable.
Ronaldo's quick-strike goal against Arsenal in the 2009 Champions League semi-final confirmed his ability to strike back. The ball passed surprisingly quickly from Park Ji-sung to Rooney to Ronaldo. I always said to him, "When you're going to get up, take your steps." Increased stride length means slower speed, so you have more time to adjust. If you keep sprinting, your body will be less coordinated, and when you slow down your brain will be better able to make choices. You see, he did.
In the spring of 2004, before we beat Millwall 3-0 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff to win the FA Cup final, Walter Smith, an assistant coach who had just joined in March, asked me what level of talent the United players had.
How about Ronaldo? Is he really that good?" he asked.
I replied, "Of course, he's too good to be true." He even has a superb head kung fu.
After a while, Walter hesitated and said, "You always tell me that this Ronaldo is a master of the head, I only saw him score with a header in training, but I didn't see it during the game."
One Saturday against Birmingham, Ronaldo scored a beautiful header and I turned my head to look at Walter and he said, "Okay, got it, I get it."