Cristiano Ronaldo’s next club? | Al Nassr

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TheNewEra said:
I disagree completely.

Ronaldo signing for a Saudi club is similar to Pele signing for New York Cosmos.

It does nothing to change opinions on Ronaldo, he's won everything at domestic level, 2 titles with Portugal.

He's 37 not 28.
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It does.

The interview. The WC. Now this. The supposed challenges going to Juventus and being sold as he was a leader, the one who always appeared in important matches and all that. Pure PR and marketing.
 
Reditus said:
it does and clearly has with many folks

Also the way he went about it was damaging
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I think in 5-10 years people won't remember it, they'll remember the goals, the trophies.

He really fecked up, and I won't defend him.

Again, I don't like Ronaldo he's at the detriment to his teammates the majority of his career, the likes of Benzema, Rooney for instance had to play a different role just for him.

I'm not a fan of Ronaldo, but he will be remembered as one of the greatest in history, not in the GOAT list of Messi, Pele, Maradona but the tier below, and how he ended his career doesn't do anything to change his legacy on the pitch.
 
Fitting move for him. Going exactly where he belongs.
 
TheNewEra said:
I disagree completely.

Ronaldo signing for a Saudi club is similar to Pele signing for New York Cosmos.

It does nothing to change opinions on Ronaldo, he's won everything at domestic level, 2 titles with Portugal.

He's 37 not 28.
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I agree that it does not change his long term legacy. But you can't deny that he is having to sign for them as opposed to a voluntary move to a retirement league very much unlike Pele. He did not do that interview to play in the Saudi league, he did it to play in Europe. In that respect, it has backfired badly.

Ignoring everyone in the recent past, it is actually an acceptable move given the money involved and his age.
 
This thread is for chat about his next club and its page after page of debate on his decline and ability.
 
McGrathsipan said:
This thread is for chat about his next club and its page after page of debate on his decline and ability.
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agreed. with no team to tie him down i can see him going amnesia or pacha. or he might go ayia napa.
 
Which is less harmful to the 'Ronaldo image' - 170 million deal for a club in Saudi Arabia or a bench player for us.
 
TheNewEra said:
They want to win the 2030 WC bid, and Messi has already signed as an ambassador like you have alluded to.

He's in the last years of his career so why not take the money? He's won everything at domestic level.

Criticise Ronnie all you want, I haven't liked the guy well before he left United in 2009. Don't pretend like you wouldn't accept that contract either. Nobody would decline a £170m a year contract.

Also, many people are quick to hate on the gulf region, and gulf states in general but have never visited. We form our opinion purely based on the media. I've visited its very nice, very hospitable, Saudi obviously has a very patchy record.

Reality for Saudi, for Qatar for any oil rich states is the following... it's not how long the oil reserves last, it's how long the world actually needs them. It's nonsense to have ~220 years of oil reserves when the world probably doesn't need as much oil in the next 30 years, maybe for plastics and a few other things?

Fusion was achieved a few weeks ago for the first time in a very small scale, billions are poured into private companies now and we'll probably be there in 10-20 years, with commercial plants that follow.

The world won't be reliant on fossil fuels as it is today, logistically we will have things like electric / autonomous cars where we don't own cars but its subscription based where we get picked up and taken places.

We won't be reliant on that, so gulf states need to expand fast use their money into things like sports, real estate, education and build other industries/economies which Saudi is doing now with tourism, with buying football clubs for instance.

They have to invest in the right assets, many of these countries had nothing before oil so they have a golden opportunity to get the best infrastructure in a very small time window. We're talking one generation here, so they have to import labour, skills, everything.

These guys know they need to invest their money in the right places and using such a global name like Ronaldo is worth £170m a year. Even if his legs have gone, I think Saudi might even try to compete with MLS in the long run.

We also live in countries that colonised the world historically so we're in no real position to judge, and the products we buy are invested by the same investment groups that politically we'd be completely opposed to.

I think 99% of people would take that £170m a year, I'd be on a flight to Riyadh if I got offered that kind of money.
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Me or you taking £170 million is completely different to Ronaldo though who probably has more money than he could ever spend. In Ronaldo’s case I understand it because it seems there are literally no other decent offers, even Eintracht Frankfurt don’t want him. I don’t have an issue with the gulf region but even within that the Saudis are quite nefarious figures, it’s not that long ago since the Khashoggi incident yet nothing really happened from that, it was business as usual simply because they have too much oil power to marginalise. Now they’re trying to buy legitimacy through sport, they’ve LIV golf, Newcastle and arguably Ronaldo playing in their country is the biggest one so far.
 
KeanoMagicHat said:
Me or you taking £170 million is completely different to Ronaldo though who probably has more money than he could ever spend. In Ronaldo’s case I understand it because it seems there are literally no other decent offers, even Eintracht Frankfurt don’t want him. I don’t have an issue with the gulf region but even within that the Saudis are quite nefarious figures, it’s not that long ago since the Khashoggi incident yet nothing really happened from that, it was business as usual simply because they have too much oil power to marginalise. Now they’re trying to buy legitimacy through sport, they’ve LIV golf, Newcastle and arguably Ronaldo playing in their country is the biggest one so far.
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It isn’t worth 170m, it’s worth 170m per year?!
 
Hes completed all the football goals he can achieve now and wont be able to add to any of the records, is this deal going to be a new record for sports people?
Biggest contract in history, first $1bn contract for a player?
 
mshnsh said:
If Ronaldo indeed does move to Saudi, it totally beats the purpose of the Piers Morgan interview. He may become wealthier by a couple of 100 million quid, but his legacy will be tainted even further.

He could and should have left United more gracefully by seeing out his contract instead of resorting to being a twat.
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I think he envisioned having a very productive WC that would lead to actual offers from CL teams. When his WC was a disaster it essentially left only this option on the table. He was dilusional.
 
Rojow said:
It does.

The interview. The WC. Now this. The supposed challenges going to Juventus and being sold as he was a leader, the one who always appeared in important matches and all that. Pure PR and marketing.
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To be fair he went to Juventus at around 33-34. Pele went to NY Cosmos at around 35.

Least to say the 3 seasons had with Juventus, he still managed scored 100 goals there and won every team trophies (5) and individual awards (3) there too. Serie A is still a top 3 league, which is far higher level than Pele's NY Cosmos at that time.

The only reason why it may affects his legacy, is the interview and the WC. The only edge he has over other GOATs, is his goal records. If he also loss those to Messi as well in 1-2 years time, he will have not much left in GOAT standings. He would be only remembered as the 2nd best player during Messi era, 2nd player with most Ballon D'ors, and 2nd top goalscorer in football history.
 
He too will lose that battle. The only way to maintain that is by playing in a weaker league. It seems that he will not be able to continue in Europe either. He is practically 38 now and his level, as has been seen, has dropped too much. Maybe right now he won't hurt his legacy, but if his idea is to keep playing for a couple more years, finally just to score goals in a league like the Saudi, then of course he will.

I think we all expected him to play for Sporting Lisboa, but no.
 
Wednesday at Stoke said:
Apparently he was even offered to Eintracht Frankfurt and they declined. I doubt even Sporting wants him back and screw over Amorim.
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Fecking hell... I was sure you were joking or misunderstood something, checked for proof and it's the news of the day. :lol:

And it wasn't even now, but already in the summer, after Frankfurt just won the EL.
 
TheNewEra said:
They want to win the 2030 WC bid, and Messi has already signed as an ambassador like you have alluded to.

He's in the last years of his career so why not take the money? He's won everything at domestic level.

Criticise Ronnie all you want, I haven't liked the guy well before he left United in 2009. Don't pretend like you wouldn't accept that contract either. Nobody would decline a £170m a year contract.

Also, many people are quick to hate on the gulf region, and gulf states in general but have never visited. We form our opinion purely based on the media. I've visited its very nice, very hospitable, Saudi obviously has a very patchy record.

Reality for Saudi, for Qatar for any oil rich states is the following... it's not how long the oil reserves last, it's how long the world actually needs them. It's nonsense to have ~220 years of oil reserves when the world probably doesn't need as much oil in the next 30 years, maybe for plastics and a few other things?

Fusion was achieved a few weeks ago for the first time in a very small scale, billions are poured into private companies now and we'll probably be there in 10-20 years, with commercial plants that follow.

The world won't be reliant on fossil fuels as it is today, logistically we will have things like electric / autonomous cars where we don't own cars but its subscription based where we get picked up and taken places.

We won't be reliant on that, so gulf states need to expand fast use their money into things like sports, real estate, education and build other industries/economies which Saudi is doing now with tourism, with buying football clubs for instance.

They have to invest in the right assets, many of these countries had nothing before oil so they have a golden opportunity to get the best infrastructure in a very small time window. We're talking one generation here, so they have to import labour, skills, everything.

These guys know they need to invest their money in the right places and using such a global name like Ronaldo is worth £170m a year. Even if his legs have gone, I think Saudi might even try to compete with MLS in the long run.

We also live in countries that colonised the world historically so we're in no real position to judge, and the products we buy are invested by the same investment groups that politically we'd be completely opposed to.

I think 99% of people would take that £170m a year, I'd be on a flight to Riyadh if I got offered that kind of money.
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You can criticize whatever you want, just because your country has a shady past ( as most countries do) it doesn't mean you can't criticize other countries now.

Judging by that logic only people from Samoan Islands, and very small islands in the pacific ocean can criticize Saudi Arabia.

I'm not the one who cares to much about Saudi Arabia or Qatar given UK and USA sell them weapons, and most countries in the world do businesses with them...but others have the right to criticize if they want.
 
He should sign there and befriend with some oil rich dudes, and buy Manchester United to become CEO, and of course fire ETH in style.
 
425mil for 2 and half of your final years of your playing career is still hell of a deal tbh.

Even if he lost the "GOAT" debate he still achieved what almost nobody else could.
 
Winrar said:
425mil for 2 and half of your final years of your playing career is still hell of a deal tbh.

Even if he lost the "GOAT" debate he still achieved what almost nobody else could.
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its a pretty decent consolation prize
 
How the mighty have fallen. At least join the MLS or something. You have ton of money already.
 
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TheNewEra said:
I disagree completely.

Ronaldo signing for a Saudi club is similar to Pele signing for New York Cosmos.

It does nothing to change opinions on Ronaldo, he's won everything at domestic level, 2 titles with Portugal.

He's 37 not 28.
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No it does. He's moving after ruining his current stent with a club by stupid interviews, trying so much to leave and then due to no body being interested in him, chooses money and a Saudi club. It's an awful ending to his career.

Doesn't ruin what he achieved, sure, but I doubt anyone thought he's gonna end his career like this. This last year has been awful for his legacy.
 
TheNewEra said:
I disagree completely.

Ronaldo signing for a Saudi club is similar to Pele signing for New York Cosmos.

It does nothing to change opinions on Ronaldo, he's won everything at domestic level, 2 titles with Portugal.

He's 37 not 28.
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Absolutely agree. I, personally, think it would have been worse for Ronaldo to hang around some mid-level European club without being the main guy. He gets to keep banging in goals for a few more years at the same time as he’s making a fecking fortune as the highest earner in football at 38.
 
el3mel said:
How the mighty have fallen. At least joint the MLS or something. You have ton of money already.
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Yeah it's been a disastrous year in terms of legacy. His arch rival sealing the world cup in the fashion he did relegates Ronaldo to a very distant second in the argument for best of this generation, regardless of all the cumulative totals Ronaldo will pad his stats there to get.

He tried his last card by throwing himself at multiple UCL teams to hope to land a UCL and get a Ballón d'Or, but was rejected by everyone in sight and has no options but a weaker league.

Still, the MLS would have atleast been a decent move for a man who's a shadow of himself. The Saudi league means nothing at all.
 
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