Former Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon has criticised the club for selling Ronaldo.
In his recent interview with the AS, the former club president Ramon Calderon has criticised the club for selling Cristiano Ronaldo. He was dissapointed with the decision of the club to let their all-time leading goal scorer and 5-times Ballon d’Or winner to leave the club for £100 millions.
Ramon Calderon was the key factor responsible for the signing of the Portuguese star player from English side, Manchester United.
In his interview, he said, “It’s very sad that they have sold a player like Cristiano Ronaldo, it’s a real pity,”
He added that, “With what it cost me to sign him, the effort that we made to bring him to Madrid…. Manchester [United] did not want to sell him and it was very difficult. And now they have sold him for 100 million euros.”
“There isn’t a player who scores 60 goals a year for you and is worth to you 100 million euros.”
“Selling Cristiano is not good news, either for 100 million or a billion. But it is true that we put a clause of a billion euros to discourage those interested in him in the future, but at the same time, to show that there was no other player like him. It’s a historic error.”
Ronaldo joined Real Madrid in 2009 at a world record price of £80 million (€94 million). his contract also had a buy-out clause of €1 billion. He made his debut at Santiago Bernabeu on 29th August 2009 and contributed in the match by scoring from a penalty spot thus resulted in a 3-2 win against Deportivo La Coruna. Representing Madrid his stats says why he is in demand. He has scored 450 goals from 438 matches representing the Spanish Giants across all leagues.
