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Barcelona fans worried about Ronaldinho leaving for Milan
Oct 11, 2006, 15:08 GMT
Madrid - Many Barcelona fans are starting to worry about idol Ronaldinho leaving for AC Milan.
The Italian giants have been interested in Ronaldinho for two years now, and there have been several contacts between Milan and Roberto de Assis, brother and agent of the Brazilian megastar.
On Tuesday Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport revealed that Silvio Berlusconi, owner of AC Milan, had lunch recently with Ronaldinho's brother - to talk about the possibility of a move to the San Siro.
Barca fans are already worried at this prospect.
An online poll taken by Catalan sports paper Mundo Deportivo shows that 56 per cent of fans are 'very worried' about the prospect of Ronaldinho wanting to leave Camp Nou in the near future.
Only a small minority of readers, 11.6 per cent, think that Barca should 'take advantage of Ronaldinho's high market value and sell him straight away.'
According to the poll, only 28 per cent of Barca fans believe that Ronaldinho will still be wearing the famous red-and-blue striped shirt 'in five years' time.'
Santi Nolla, editor of Mundo Deportivo, comments that 'these fears are understandable, given the historic inability of Barca to hold on to their top foreign players.'
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Dinho has said over and over again that he has no interest in leaving. Even 2 days ago he made the same statement that he is not leaving. He said he never sees himself playing anywhere other than Barca. He has posted this statement on his own website. His brother Assis is supposedly meeting Berlusconi to discuss another player but the papers are making the most of it. Anyway, Barca are an excellent team and will still be the same whether he leaves or not. Each and every player is special and it is not about just one man. Dinho is an amazing player and I would watch him at whatever team he played at but I think he has made his feelings clear. He is not leaving.
It's said that milan offer him contracts for about 12 million euro a year while with his current team he gets 8 million a year, but if i was him i would stay at barca till he reached hes peak.
he should not leave the team because hes a good player
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LilKingOct 12th, 2006 - 01:16:05
i personally think ronaldinho should stay at Barcelona because i think he is doing fine there. But i am not ronaldinho i do not know what he is going through, maybe he thinks other wise. But really i think its up to him if he should stay or go. Tell you the truth i like both AC Milan and Barcelona team. It really doen't matter cause he will still be great. Either in our hearts or on the field. Again should he stay or go its up to him.
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