It’s not about the money, you shallow, shallow people. From CR7′s Twitter account:
That I am feeling sad and have expressed this sadness has created a huge stir. I am accused of wanting more money, but one day it will be shown that this is not the case. At this point, I just want to guarantee to the Real Madrid fans that my motivation, dedication, commitment and desire to win all competitions will not be affected. I have too much respect for myself and for Real Madrid to ever give less to the club than all I am capable of. Abrazos to all madridistas
In my limited experience on planet earth, any time anyone says it’s not about the money means it’s precisely about the money, although there may be some boot-throwing story to emerge at some point.
My own feeling is this will be about as banal as we think it is: something related to a “lack of spiritual support” over his UEFA award snub or some such nonsense. Hell, people have gone into paroxysms of sadness over losing their parking spot, so, well, it could be anything. I CAN’T WAIT TO FIND OUT.
His mom wouldn’t buy him a Red Rider BB gun for his birthday
If I remember correctly his total earnings including endorsements are about 60 million per year. His Madrid salary is only about a fifth of that. For that reason I could believe it’s not about the money. However it could be the image of being the highest paid in the world that his ego needs.
Is there not going to be any review of the weekend? a podcast or KJ’s notebook? Now we are coming to a international break!
Long weekends,… great in real life, horrible for the interent content.
I heard it might have something to do with him wanting some sort of moment of silence before the match, but didn’t get it. Any truth in that?
As I posted earlier, people have been pointing out that Ronaldo’s father died Sept 5/6/7 (exact date isn’t known), 2005. If that’s true, and you re-read the quotes in that context, it makes a lot of sense. Not sure how this played out for past year’s celebrations (if he scored), but it might be an interesting and sad storyline, considering all the stories (such as this one) about money and respect. I suppose being snarky and cynical is the way to go on this subject
Does it really matter? He does not want to say what is it about. He just said it is not about money nor about missing the award to Iniesta. He has never been coy about any of those reasons. Therefore, it probably is about something else.
What then? WHO CARES? Let the bloke morose alone. It’s none of our business (unless you’re a journalists struggling for stories, that is).