I want to stay / I want to go...

I don't know Cristiano Ronaldo personally, and he may in truth be a nice bloke, but he certainly comes over as rather arrogant and somewhat two-faced. And if half of what is being reported in the papers about his machinations regarding a possible move to Real Madrid are true, then that simply reinforces that view. Whatever happened to loyalty? Manchester United turned him from a flashy but very average player into a genuine world-class one, and you would think he would want to repay them by staying. It's not as though he's poorly paid there. And then, thinking of Real Madrid, there's that old saying about it being better to be a big fish in a small pond...