Wish-list for United fans

Manchester United fans have demanded all the £80million received from Real Madrid for Cristiano Ronaldo is reinvested in Sir Alex Ferguson’s team – with Carlos Tevez top of their wish–list.

United have been trying to broker a deal with Tevez’s advisor Kia Joorabchian, who had a meeting with chief executive David Gill last week aimed at resolving the matter.

But with a world record fee at their disposal if, as expected, Ronaldo moves to the Bernabeu later this month, United supporters see no reason to stall, while Bayern Munich’s Franck Ribery and Antonio Valencia of Wigan remain major targets.

Most United supporters will be happy to accept Sir Alex Ferguson’s judgment on a player who nearly left Old Trafford last summer, since when his elaborate posturing and ego have only increased.

But, as compensation for losing the world player of the year, they want an assurance the massive fee will not be used to pay off part of the Glazer family’s £650million debt.

Old Trafford insiders have attempted to assure supporters that is the case and also insist no agreement was in place when Ferguson famously declared during a press conference at the Club World Cup in Yokohama last December that “he would not sell that mob a virus”.

Since then though, attitudes inside the Red Devils camp have hardened by the 24–year–old.

Ronaldo’s reaction to being substituted during the victory over Manchester City.