Ronaldinho – The Bargain Brazilian?
By: Daryl | July 16th, 2008
“Ronaldinho is ours,” Silvio Berlusconi told Sky Italia late last night. The man with the money has spoken, and Ronaldinho is indeed in Milan today getting a medical. So looks like the long (long) awaited ‘Dinho to AC move is finally going to happen.
Latest reports put the fee at €21m, rising to €25m if certain (waistline related?) clauses* are met. Considering that Barca rejected a €60m offer from Silvio last summer, has Berlusconi got himself a bargain?
Suppose it depends how you look at it. Getting what you want for a third of what you offered looks like good business. But there are reasons that Ronny was in the bargain bin. He’s a bit like a ripe fruit that’s gone rotten. And by rotten, I mean fat.
On the other hand, Ronny’s only 28 and that fat can be shifted. Especially if Ronny does lots of this.
I still stand by my argument that we’ll never see the old Ronaldinho again, the one who looked unplayable and unbeatable and even had Madrista’s on their feet applauding his brilliance.
And if I was a Milan fan I’d be a little concerned about how Kaka and Ronaldinho fit into the same line-up. I remember it didn’t work too well at World Cup 2006 and I don’t think it’s any co-incidence that Ronaldinho’s G-Force inducing dip in form coincided with the rise of Leo Messi at Barca.
There’s a definite argument that ‘Dinho benefits from being the main man, and you could maybe even argue that he’d have been better off at Man City in this regard. But only maybe.
Either way, I’m sure everyone but Inter Milan (and possibly Barca) fans would love to see Ronaldinho rediscover some of that old magic:
*Champions League 2009/10 qualification
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I think its an incredible bargin. If Milan can get R10’s motivation back then I don’t see why we can’t see the Old Dhino. I am a big fan of his, and can only hope we do see the Gap Toothed Grin Of Old.
He doesn’t even look overweight in todays pictures and the ones at the olympics to be honest.
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there is no player like him
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I think Milan is just doing to seel Dinho shirts to the Japanese fans and win meaningless trophies like the Club World Cup.
I never considered Milan a real team and buying Ronaldinho rather than van der Vaart or some other promising midfielder just proves it. They want to be the cool carioca on tour.
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Oh and I dunno how valid a tip for Carlo this is, but I have a game on Football Manager 08, where I play Ronaldinho up front, and he’s absolutely amazing. Could be the answer right there.
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Jan – ” I never considered Milan a real team ”
ooooooooooooooooooooooookaaaaaayyyyyyy…………………..
So basically we should all just ignore you from now on…
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well good luck to him and milan
life goes on for barca , its time they put dinho behind and focus on their players who want to play for barca. as for milan, i’m seeing a pattern here. they get player that no other team wants at lower price. finicially its good unlike chelsea. finacially its good, but it will come to huant them like last season where they finished 5th, this time they might finish worse. juve is back, inter is rebuilding, roma is getting stronger, then you have all midium teams with desire to win
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Jan, one cannot help but laugh at the idea of a netherland’s fan questioning another team’s integrity, especially one that is successful as Milan.
perhaps if they fielded an all dutch XI, and ended up winning zero trophies over the course of a season, they would be a “real team” to you?
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