Tom Adams
Tom has been a senior football reporter for Setanta since June 2007, when he joined the company from Sky Sports.
He has covered major events such as the 2008 Champions League final and 2009 FA Cup final, as well as conducting exclusive interviews with the likes of Wayne Rooney, Joe Cole and Robin van Persie.
Tom has been an avid sports fan since an early age but his first foray into journalism came at the University of York when he was sports editor of York Vision, winning the Guardian Student Newspaper of the Year award for 2003.
Spells with The Guardian and Sky followed before a move to Setanta, where he has spent two enjoyable and productive seasons.
Everyone's a winner as Fergie sells Real his 'virus'
Sir Alex Ferguson memorably stated earlier this season that he wouldn’t sell Real ‘a virus’. But in deciding to part with Cristiano Ronaldo on Thursday perhaps he has removed an unhealthy element from the body of his own squad, giving Manchester United the chance to grow ever stronger next season.
It would of course be ridiculous to cast doubt on Ronaldo’s quality and I would certainly never argue that the second best player in the world will not be a huge loss to the club, but ignoring all the predictions of doom and gloom at Old Trafford, the imminent world record transfer looks to be a good deal for all concerned.
Clearly he will benefit from the move. The biggest salary in world football, the chance to play alongside Kaka in Real’s grand new project, the chance to play for a club that, despite being in Spain, exercise a big influence on the minds of his fellow Portuguese. It all adds up for Ronaldo.
Real too of course. Florentino Perez has delivered the biggest transfer coup in football history, just days after signing Kaka. The new galacticos are congealing nicely and the Spanish side can once again boast to be the biggest club in the world, with the act of signing Ronaldo adeptly underlining their claims to superiority over United.
It has been reported that after Real were humbled by Liverpool in the Champions League, the United players teased Ronaldo and said ‘Why would you want to join that lot?’. A fair point at the time, but the arrival of Perez, and Kaka of course, has changed all that. Real are back as the preeminent force in world football.