Talk:Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)/Rumours

Overweight?
In the article, there is a statement that his is overweight. My problem with it is that it is definative in the present tense. Isn't that conjecture or even just opinion. Unless you've weighed he and calculated his BMI, isn't this just wrong? 212.159.117.243 23:59, 25 June 2006 (UTC) B1ackcr0w

Problematic sentence
I found this sentence confusing: Later in 1999, he was joined by one of Italy's greatest World Cup goal-scorers and former Juventus striker, Christian Vieri, whom broke "Il Phenomenon's" world record transfer.

First, who is "Il Phenomenon"? Is it Ronaldo himself? The article doesn't make this clear.

Second, as someone who is not a football fan, I don't know what is meant by "world record transfer". Transfer of what?

Could someone knowledgeable fill in the missing information? Thanks! &mdash;Triskaideka 19:52, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

"He is thought by many to be the best striker to play football since Pelé" The sentence is wrong because Pele was not a striker.

I think that by world record transfer, they mean that it was the most expensive transfer ever made (at the time.) I haven't checked this though, so correct me if i'm wrong, but it is the most obvious thing that i can think of.ALV

Bisexual
To the user who inserted the "there's a rumour he's bisexual" line, um, good on you for coming up with unique info for the entry, I guess. But I don't think an encyclopœdia is the right place to say "there is a rumour that ..." if we can possibly avoid it. Does anyone have a credible cite? --MarkGallagher 01:29, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

"He is currently screwing a supermodel."
I'm not English, but isn't this offending language?
 * Be bold and just delete such nonsense. Poulsen 23:40, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Unsourced bold statement
"He is said to be the second most known person in the world after George W. Bush."

This is quite a startling assertion. Who says this? I've left it in and added a fact template for the moment. --Sam Blanning (formerly Malthusian) (talk) 10:05, 8 March 2006 (UTC)


 * All those (unsourced) bold and/or POV statements should just be removed I think. If the person who wrote it had it from a source, it would have been easy to just slap on a url, but as there's no url present, it's most probably not true. Poulsen 12:32, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Last club paragraph
I deleted this because it was somewhat too detailed and unnecessary, as well as consisting of improper statements ("Suprisingly, Real Madrid lost"). Peoplesunionpro 19:18, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

another thing is the bold statement the 'He is regarded as one of the greatest players to have played the game: an opinion of whoever write it!

Ronaldo's problems
Why did someone delete every thing that portrayed him negatively. We are not super humans without problems. The article was well written citing web links about Ronaldo's psychological problems that even exist at the present world cup. I think we are here to read current and pass afairs about people and deleting any thing negative but true, i find that disgusting. Pretending that Ronaldo has no problem will not help him in any way.

Crap
Who cares about what a crappy manager called Martin Oneill says? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hahahaha1 (talk • contribs)
 * Why do you think your opinion is more important than professional experts? Have you been editing this article to reflect your opinion like you did to the Thierry Henry article?   SLUMGUM    yap    stalk   01:49, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh, so if the comments of Martin O Neill are soo necessary on a biography of ronaldo , why dont you put in the comments on Ronaldo of greater professionals like  Paolo Maldini or even Ronaldinho or Zidane ? Is the reason that you dont put their comments on Ronaldo in the article primarily because those comments are positive while Martin o Neil's comment is derogatory ?

Some random comment by some random manager who had a few stints in England automatically gets printed in a biography on Ronaldo ? What an Bumhole !!

Might as well take the comments of the manager of some MLS team and also put it in this article.

Hahahaha1 21:00, 21 July 2006 (UTC)