CR7’s war … to Transfermarkt: “They didn’t like its market value and blocked us on social media!”

Don’t make Cristiano Ronaldo angry. Always valid advice, on and off the pitch. The Portuguese always knows how to make up when someone teases him. For information, ask anyone who has had a bad idea about doing this before or during a game. So, joke with the infantrymen but leave CR7 alone. An adage that, at least judging from what it reports TheAthletic, he also learned Transfermarkt, the famous site that deals with the transfer market and which calculates the value of the players. A science that is not always exact, because it is based on calculations that sometimes do not correspond to what you really pay a price tag, but which take into account other parameters, including age.

VALUE TOO LOW – But in the world of transfer market 2.0 the methodology is now almost unanimously accepted. If you want to know how much a player is worth, that is the place. And evidently Cristiano Ronaldo goes there quite often on Transfermarkt, considering that, as Daniel Busch, manager of the site for the United Kingdom explained, it was precisely the value attributed to the Portuguese that angered him a few years ago. A story so absurd that it must be told from the beginning. “We put on Instagram a list with the 10 players older than 33 years by value and Cristiano Ronaldo was still in first place, but he said he had to be worth a lot more, so he sent a message to those in charge of our social networks. The person in question explained to him that among the players of his age group he was the first and also by quite a lot. I think there was a difference of about fifty million with the second. He sent us some smiley faces … and then blocked us. “

BLOCKED – Exactly what the same account on the site had later explained, namely the inability to tag Cristiano Ronaldo because he had blocked the account because he was not happy with its market value. A sentence that obviously strikes a lot the users, who ask for explanations. Arriving immediately. Someone keeps thinking of a joke, also because Transfermarkt’s social media manager is famous for his ironic answers under the posts. But is not so. Yet, after some time, Christian Schwarz, who coordinates market values, tries to explain again how the question works. “I think age is one of the most important factors. And CR7s are old, like obviously Messi, so their value will drop because of that. Even though they’re as strong as they were three years ago, they’re still three years older.” But go and explain it to two of the most competitive people on the planet …