Cristiano Ronaldo To Stay At United For One More Year

Cristiano Ronaldo has revealed that he will play for Manchester United for at least “one more year”, ending the summer long speculation regarding his future - and more specifically his transfer to Real Madrid.

It seems that United manager Alex Ferguson has utilised his man management skills in persuading the 23-year-old Portuguese winger to remain at Old Trafford for this season.

Ronaldo, who scored 42 goals for United last season, told Portuguese paper Publico;

“Sir Alex Ferguson heard my arguments, I heard his and it was settled that the best thing would be for me to stay. I can confirm that, next season, I will play for Manchester United.” Read more

Weekly Football Round-Up: 27th July 2008

Near the end of last season we started a weekend football round up, with a promise that we will continue the weekend summary in the forthcoming season.

Well, we are not ones for breaking promises. But, there is a small difference - every Sunday from this day on, we will summarise the weeks football action for you. Welcome to our first of many ‘CLDsport Weekly Football Round Ups’.

With transfer rumours still hitting the headlines, and supposedly Read more

Adebayor Deal Back On?

It’s becoming increasingly hard to predict the transfer activity this summer. With Cristiano Ronaldo’s future still in the balance, along with Lampard (a target for Inter Milan), and Alexander Hleb. It’s Hleb’s Arsenal team mate Emanuel Adebayor that now looks most likely to be on his way out, after the club - reportedly - lowered their asking price.

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Cristiano Ronaldo Fuels Speculation, But United Say He Is NOT Leaving

After Portugal’s Euro 2008 exit yesterday evening, the media attention has focused directly on Cristiano Ronaldo, and his future.

If reports in the Spanish media are to be believed, Ronaldo has fuelled speculation that he is to leave for Real Madrid, apparently saying: “Everyone knows what I want - in the next two or three days you’ll have something new.” Read more

Portugal 2 v 3 Germany: Germany Through to Semi-Finals

The first quarter-final has seen Germany beat Portugal 3-2 and advance to the semi-finals.

After a near perfect group stage performance, Portugal were below par on Thursday night in Basel, and Germany finally found their feet after some unconvincing performances thus far - despite coming into the tournament as favourites. Read more

Football News Round-Up

In this article: Hleb in talks with Barcelona, Ince set to become Blackburn manager, Nasri ‘agrees’ Arsenal contract, Roma sign Riise from Liverpool, and the latest Cristiano Ronaldo rumours.

With Euro 2008 creeping towards the final, it’s important that we don’t forget all the other football news. So, this is your chance to catch-up on all the latest football transfer news, managerial vacancies and more.

Firstly, Alexander Hleb has been linked with a move to Barcelona for the last few months, and reportedly Inter Milan were interested - although Jose Mourinho’s appointment may have changed that. Read more

Portugal Beat Czech Republic, and Swiss Out After Losing to Turkey

Czech Republic 3-1 Portugal, Switzerland 1-2 Turkey

Wednesday saw the first qualifiers for the next round, along with the first team to be eliminated. Portugal beat the Czech Republic with Cristiano Ronaldo scoring one and creating another, and Turkey cam from behind to beat hosts Switzerland.

Portugal are now through to the knockout stages, as they sit at the top of the table on 6 points. With Turkey and the Czech Rep to play each other next, only one of them can possibly catch them. Read more

Players To Watch Out For - Day 1

We have only had one day of Euro 2008 so far - but here is our first edition of ‘Players To Watch Out For’. This is where you are going to find all the players who could - potentially - become the star of the tournament. Read more

Portugal and Czech Republic Win On Opening Day

The opening day of Euro 2008 has seen the Czech Republic and Portugal win their opening games. The Czech Republic beat Switzerland 1-0 while Portugal cast aside Turkey with a 2-0 victory respectively. Read more

Dos Santos For Tottenham and Other Transfer News

Thursday 5th June 2008:

Well, it’s turning out to be a pretty intensive summer for transfer speculation - ALREADY! With the ‘is he staying or not’ Cristiano Ronaldo saga, it now appears likely that the Portuguese star will be on his way to Madrid after admitting that he’d like to join Real.

Giovani Dos Santos has been linked to Tottenham Hotspur many times in recent weeks, and now the player himself has said: Read more

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