Mad Ron to Madrid?? Not again!

'These guys don't quit, do they??'. One can't be faulted for thinking that this Brendon Fraser one-liner is actually Fergie's press statement. There seems to be no end to this transfer saga. Owen Hargreaves must be laughing at the mirror for calling his move from Munich to Manchester the longest transfer saga he's ever seen. First there was Schuster, then Ron's s*** spewing agent, then Ramos and more recently Calderon.
For a change I was thinking about the 'why' aspect of this saga rather than the 'will he?' angle...
2 years ago, on a day like today, I set out preparing for CAT. I had but one thought on my mind: IIM-A Finance. Why? Glory.
Countless hours of preparations, practice tests, dreams, exams, 95.71 percentile, 5 non-IIM calls, trips across India and 75 grand later, here I am; 2 weeks away from boarding the flight to Ahmedabad and MICA.
It's at this juncture that Ron, my all time fav. footballer incidentally, became a real-life inspiration. IMS Coimbatore is my Sporting Lisbon. IIM-A is Real Madrid. MICA is the Theater of Dreams. I've made it to MICA but will I go to IIM-A now if God swoops down on Earth and facilitates it? I most certainly will. It's all about chasing your dream. The ultimate aim of your life is to see your dreams manifested in front of your eyes.
As a 10 year old kid in Portugal, he saw Real Madrid as the road to glory. Wearing the Madrid jersey was like standing on top of the World for him. Nothing else mattered. If that kind of a thought gets imprinted in your head, it's very hard to let go. If an obscoure 20 year old sitting in Coimbatore finds it so hard to let go of his dreams, one can see how hard it will be for a guy as gifted and as successful as Ron.
But now, if I were to be as successful at MICA in a yr as Ron has been at OT in 6 years, will I still leave for IIM-A if God facilitated another divine intervention? I most certainly won't. 'Cos we have a habit of outdoing ourselves at something that we never thought of as our Raison d'etre. Looking at Ron's 6 seasons here, his dreams of 'there is only one Ronaldo!' have well n truly materialised without going anywhere near Madrid. Perhaps that's the second reason why every Red Devil with a sane head has wanted him to stay at OT (The first reason obviously, is a little matter of 42 last season, 22 the season before and 26 in an injury-curtailed, supposedly out of form season that still has 3 matches left). If he still wants to chase his dream, he must go to Spain by all means. BUt before he leaves, I hope he looks at the case of a guy who threw away a great life to chase a dream that had already materialised without him realising it. It's the story of a not so unfamiliar guy called Robbie Keane.

'Why' aspect apart, I just got this li'l thought...
Madrid's no.7 seems to be on his way to Manchester. Does that add a 'numeric' (read 7) tweak to CR7's move in the other direction?
But it would be a damn shame if Manchester's best team were to compensate Madrid cos 'the mob' lost their best to the cash-crazed 4th best team in Manchester!
Food for thought?