As an inter fan, it's bad breaking news, but Ronaldo is on his way to Real and Crespo is a Inter Player. I didn't think it would happen. Now we have about a million argentines: Cuper, Zanetti, Guly, Vivas, Crespo, others but I don't feel like naming them. I'm in a bad mood. I don't like Crespo..... I've always loved Ronaldo.....
Here is an interview from www.inter.it/ with J. Zanetti this is part of it. Q: Is Inter the strongest team? Without Ronaldo , there would in any case be Crespo. So is Inter the strongest? A: More complete, yes. After we need to show it on the pitch.
More of the interview with J. Zanetti: Nesta to AC Milan… An excellent buy. All the teams have reinforced by getting excellent players. We’re working well and we’re happy with the team we have. We feel we are very competitive. Di Vaio to Juventus, Cannavaro to Inter, Nesta to AC Milan – who wins the Oscar for the transfer market? You’ve named three great players - Cannavaro , Nesta and Di Vaio. There will be a battle in the championship between Inter, Juventus and AC Milan. But there’s also Roma. And also Lazio. We need to be very careful and try to give everything. Another Argentine could be on his way. Have you heard that your friend Crespo is packing his bags? I know him very well, but this doesn't mean anything. I know there's still an hour before the lists close. Anything can happen. I think Crespo is an excellent player. If he arrived, he would be useful to Inter and this would be the most important thing. Let's say Ronaldo will stay. But his desire to leave has created a few problems. Ronaldo has to mend his relationship with the fans and the team... If he stays, we're happy. We gave the most important reply on Tuesday, by not thinking about this matter and qualifying for the Champions League. We're happy now.
you're sabotaging the Inter forum btw,there's not a chance in the world Ronaldo stays at Inter,no point in posting comments on that possibility
Ronaldo's tranfer negotiations are stalling: Barcelona don't want to pay the € 25 millions asked for Morientes. there's a chance Ronaldo will stay at Inter (as tourist) until January
You are correct. Morientes and Barça have broken off talks. So that part of the deal is off. Inter don't want Morientes and I'm sure Madrid doesn't want to pay the extra 20 to 25 million Euro for Ronaldo. This all comes to naught.
Last I saw Marca says that Barca and Morientes have practically agreed to terms...so it really is the player-club deal that hangs the mega deal in the balance. I gotta question-when is the exact time of the Champions League transfer deadline??? 12 midnight, Sunday noon, Sunday midnight??? Is it any different than from Spain's and Italy's??
The talks between Barça and Morientes have broken off. Moro was prepared to accept the conditions but then Barcelona backed off. So this puts the deal for Ronaldo in serious jeopardy as Inter won't accept Morientes as part of the deal, so Madrid would have to come up with extra cash to make up for the Morientes part of the deal. I seriously doubt they will do that. This was just said on Cadena Ser so any written press is outdated right now. My take: Barça was leading everybody on. They knew they were key to this deal and I think they just wanted to break it up. It wouldn't surprise me in the least.
Brian,i't just been officially confirmed that the deal's broken in a few hours the Barcelona president Gaspart will explain in a press conference why the azulgrana are not buying Morientes
got the update...thanx... still thing Real should be concentrating on getting Marquez, not Ronaldo...
the deadline for CL transfers is 12 pm August 31st (Central European Time,i.e. Paris,Madrid,Rome) the transfer list for la Liga close 6.00 pm monday...correct?
I'm not positive on the La Liga deadline but you may be right. Unless something amazing happens in the next few minutes there will be no deal. Is the Crespo to Inter deal dependent upon this deal? Or is it independent?
Ah ok. Well Inter have a lot of forwards on their hands now. Should be an interesting season for them, either way.
Crespo has already been registered with Inter for the upcoming Serie A season. What if the Ronaldo deal doesn't go through? Inter would have Crespo, Ronaldo, Vieri, and Recoba fighting for two spots.
wait n see How would the Crespo deal be "independent"? What? They're just sigining him to sit the bench? If Crespo has indeed signed, then everything went through. I think all parties are just trying to coordinate their press conferences and everything. Let's just all sit back and wait until we hear the official word from Real, Inter, and Barca. My personal inclination is that everything has gone through. But we shall see. In what is perhaps a clue, the RealMadrid website is kinds screwed right now. It has a recap of the SuperCup game, but you can't get to anything else on the site. Could it be they're updating the site for a huge Ronaldo blowout? Who knows? Again, in due time all shall be revealed.
Crespo Contract Registered By League 08/31/2002. Hernan Crespo's move to Inter looks to have been given the all-clear by the Lega Calcio. "The contract for the transfer of Hernan Crespo from Lazio to Inter has been registered within the deadline required by the Lega Calcio, that is, before 13:00 today," said news agency ANSA in a statement on the club's official site. "However, "due to 'force majeure'", it has not been possible to officialise the list of all today's transfers and everything has been postponed until Monday." SA Italy SoccerAge
Re: wait n see Ronaldo may yet go to Madrid but Barça is out of the equation. If Ronnie does go to Madrid they will have to pay Inter the full amount and probably will sell Morientes to a different team later, most likely a non-CL team.
RONALDO IS STILL LOCKED UP IN iNTER'S HEADQUARTERS WITH THE MANAGEMENT AND MORATTI HIMSELF,BUT THE DEADLINE EXPIRES IN HALF AN HOUR,ALMOST CERTAINLY REAL WON'T BE ABLE TO field him in european competitions until next solar year,as i said if he remains at Inter he'll basically take a vacation for 5 months. Crespo is the starter,since he's an Inter player; Ronaldo is a traitor,he won't be allowed to disrupt the locker room btw,there's acrowd of fans outside Inter's headquarters,basically there to insult Ronie