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( 18 December 2008 )

English Premiership football News

Real Ronaldo claims rile Ferguson
Sir Alex Ferguson has hit at Real Madrid on claims Manchester United have agreed to sell Cristiano Ronaldo to the Spanish giants.

Real have said Pedro Trapote Spanish newspaper El Mundo an agreement was struck, adding: "There are clauses keeping us announcing it."

But Ferguson insists there was no such agreement with Real, saying he "would not sell them for viruses."

He added: "Would I get a contract with this crowd? Absolutely no chance."

Speaking after his side beat Gamba Osaka to the European Champions League in Japan, the United boss reacted furiously to the latest.

"I do not want to sell to the virus - is a step. There is no agreement whatsoever between the clubs.

"I told David Gill last year in the summer, when we sold Gabby Heinze, you can bet your life in January, it will be started again Ronaldo. It will happen again this January, believe me.

"We had just ignore it because if we continue to worry that Real are going to say we're not going to concentrate on our own program of difficult games coming up.

"Sometimes it may be a situation of anger and sometimes we are really annoyed with them, but we know The Game and I think we should play our game and ignore all this."

Ronaldo also responded to the allegations, saying he is happy to stay at Old Trafford and has no real interest of the reported.

"I do not care. I do not see newspapers," he said. "We are here in Japan and I do not know anything, what happened around me.

"I am very pleased (Man Utd), very happy."

Trapote understood to be very close to club president Ramon Calderon, had gone on record saying in El Mundo: "We have already signed our first target for next summer.

"Is it Cristiano Ronaldo? It is a Christian, no one else. The thing is, it is better to say nothing now."

BBC Manchester Steve Wyeth, which was released in Japan-US following the progress of the Club World Cup, said earlier the news was greeted with anger by officials.

"This has been firmly rejected, and with pretty colors language," said Wyeth.

The final round at Real Madrid-Ronaldo history could open wounds between the clubs following the acrimony between operations and the United Spanish giants over the summer.

Real public of the continuation of 23 years ended with United complain to FIFA over their conduct, with Ferguson claimed they showed "a lack of morality."

The case was closed due to lack of evidence, and, later, Ronaldo told Spanish sports paper Marca in October as he is in Manchester in body and soul. "

Ronaldo, this year's Ballon d'Or winner, is currently under contract at Old Trafford until 2012 and Ferguson was delighted with his improvement since his arrival at Old Trafford as a raw teenager in 2003.

"In the five years I have been with us, we have seen develop into the player he is today," he added.

"I have always had certain qualities that makes it to the very top - his incredible talent, speed and courage. In the meantime, I have been with us, he developed his decision-making process.

"As a kid, I played center-forward for Sporting Lisbon in Portugal and our people kept telling us that" this is a big boy Goalscorer ".

"When I first came to us, we could not see that. All of a sudden I just blossom last season and have 42.

"It is a measure of a young person wanting to do to improve itself by its own determination and ambition to practice all the time."
by bbcnews.