The Morning After - Fergie on Possebon, Ronaldo

Fergie is understandably very angry with Emanuel Pogatetz for his challenge on Rodrigo Possebon. However, the 19-year-old Brazilian midfielder, who was making his first United start, was taken to hospital, kept in overnight for observation but has now learned there is no break.

“It looked a really bad one. For the kid to make his first team debut and get an injury like that it was pretty horrendous,” said Fergie. “For 10 minutes everyone was numb about it. The thing about these challenges it is always the case that the opponent claims his innocence. One of their bench is out screaming that it wasn’t a sending off and there was nothing wrong with the player. But at least they apologised. Gareth Southgate understood the gravity of it. He was very, very apologetic. But it was a terrible tackle.”

An interesting aside was Fergie’s remarks about Ronaldo’s future. He effectively conceded that it is inevitable that he will leave for Real Madrid, just not yet. The interesting part is that it took another summer meeting to calm Ronaldo down, show him the love and set some conditions for the timeframe of his departure.

Fergie said, “Graeme Souness was right when he said that just as all Italians dream of one day playing for Juventus or the Milan clubs, so southern Europeans want at some point to play for Real Madrid or Barcelona, so I understand what was going on in Cristiano’s mind when he declared he wanted to join Real. But once we had talked, he accepted it was a move for the future. The crowd still chant Cantona’s name so I told Cristiano, ‘Leave a hero like Eric’, and one day he will - but not yet of course.”

Good man management? Damn right it is, but who knows what’s going through Ronaldo’s mind at the moment, he might even be tempted by City?

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