Numero uno is FIFA’s president Joseph Blatter, and they give a great quote from Sepp:

“FIFA is like the United Nations but it has more members and is more powerful”

Six of the top ten most powerful global figures have soccer ties including Becks clocking in at No. 5, Roman Abramovic at No. 6, and Cristiano at 7. Herbert Hanier the president of Adidas is No. 4 and Michel Platini UEFA president is 8. Click on this link for the slideshow and complete coverage from Business Week.

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I.Shouldve.Played.Soccer

Becks took some time off the other day to pick the kids up from day care… Ho Hum… Gonna bring out the Phantom Drop and shut ‘ish down; Interesting how its just a day or two after we let you know about C. Ronaldo picking up a 2 door Bent… I think someone has been reading TOW!!!

full story here, pics and news thanks to the crew at popsugar.com. Even more on the story here, courtesy of the daily mail….

I.Shouldve.Played.Soccer

2nd half substitute against Villareal at home in the 62nd minute and looking damn sharp for a guy who’s been out injured for the better half of three months.

Looks like Cristiano picked himself a new toy…not a bad look for the Portuguese winger. Apparently Cristiano likes his rides.

That fine institute of journalism, the News of the World, calculates that the Portuguese winger has spent £2 million on cars since joining United five years ago. Last month he splashed £350,000 on a Rolls Royce Phantom, and then spent a further £150,000 on a personalised CR7 number plate for it. His garage has also included two Porsche Cayennes, a BMW M6, Porsche 911, Ferrari F430 and a Bentley Continental GTC - formerly C-Ron’s runaround and now for sale in a Bolton showroom for £99,995 since the upgrade to the GT Speed.

Picking up a Phantom and a Bentley all within a month? Play on playa…

[Gridcrasher and The Spoiler]

Can you imagine if they do get Berbatov?

The Cristiano Ronaldo transfer saga is officially dunzo. Here is a direct quote from CRon7 himself.

“So, I can confirm that I’ll be playing for Manchester United next season. And before there are any rumours and speculation about me staying against my will, I want to make one thing clear: whoever says or writes anything to that effect is lying. I’ll be playing at Manchester United with my heart and soul. I will fight and honour the shirt with the same desire and dedication as I always have.” - Cristiano Ronaldo to Publico

To read the entire transcript of this interview, click here

Sir Alex is saying the Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid saga is all over, but Spanish paper Marca is reporting that Ronaldo is not going to report to Manchester at the end of the week as he is required to do.

Remember when I was just saying?

This is so far from being over in my opinion, especially when Madrid is saying that van der Vaart is their last and only major signing of the summer.

image via Starpulse

Pretty sick compilation of Cristiano Ronaldo from 2003 til now.

It’s been well documented that Beans and I are longtime United supporters, so it pains me to say this.

I have a feeling we’re going to hear something pretty huge in the next week or so regarding Cristiano Ronaldo’s future, especially if Robinho ends up in Chelsea blue (think financing).

Now I’m going to go throw up…

Sir Alex Ferguson has finally spoken at length about the summer’s biggest story, Cristiano Ronaldo.

Admitting that he flew to Portugal to meet with the player last week, Ferguson seemed happy with the face to face sit down and has reiterated his stance that Ronaldo will be going nowhere soon.

Via SkySports

“The meeting went well - I think we both put across our points of view - where we stand and where the player stands.”I can say he’ll be a Manchester United player next season. That’s our stance - he won’t be sold.”

Asked why he had not commented on the matter until now, Ferguson replied: “It’s not a difficult position. I was on my holiday and I was not going to interrupt my holiday, believe me.

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