Deery
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Conte giving Ronaldo great praise, “if it wasn’t for Ronaldo, United would be not good”, “Him and Lionel Messi, two of the greatest of an era”..
‘Real teams’ aren’t using classic no.9’s. Let alone 37 year old ones.
And they wanted Ronaldo.Theres about 2 teams in Europe not playing with a 9 and City being one of them have been after a striker for 18 months….
I swear these guys don’t know the actual sport, but just get caught up in fancy terms. “Do you know of that one team that plays with a sweeper keeper with a false 9, hybrid midfielders, inverted center backs and diverted fullbacks?” “No but that sounds bloody fantastic, we should do that too…”Theres about 2 teams in Europe not playing with a 9 and City being one of them have been after a striker for 18 months….
Coincidentally, they’re the best two teams in the sport. I should have caveated my post with ‘the top teams’ of course, but I thought that was implied. I don’t really care who Eintracht Frankfurt or Celta Vigo stick upfront. Chelsea makes 3 (Havertz), Madrid play with Benzema who is about as far as you can get from a classic no.9. Bayern Munich round out the top 5 but Lewandowski is far more than just a classic no.9 (which is what I said in my initial post).Theres about 2 teams in Europe not playing with a 9 and City being one of them have been after a striker for 18 months….
take a chill pill, dude.I swear these guys don’t know the actual sport, but just get caught up in fancy terms. “Do you know of that one team that plays with a sweeper keeper with a false 9, hybrid midfielders, inverted center backs and diverted fullbacks?” “No but that sounds bloody fantastic, we should do that too…”
When Conte is saying that, it’s obvious that he’s carried us this season.Conte giving Ronaldo great praise, “if it wasn’t for Ronaldo, United would be not good”, “Him and Lionel Messi, two of the greatest of an era”..
Conte giving Ronaldo great praise, “if it wasn’t for Ronaldo, United would be not good”, “Him and Lionel Messi, two of the greatest of an era”..
It will be a travesty if he doesn't win anything here again. G'wan, win us the CL, Ronnie.
Theres about 2 teams in Europe not playing with a 9 and City being one of them have been after a striker for 18 months….
I see the ronaldo brigade is out in full force
Benzema and Lewandowski aren’t classic #9s in the sense that they don’t only poach goals but they’re very much #9s!Coincidentally, they’re the best two teams in the sport. I should have caveated my post with ‘the top teams’ of course, but I thought that was implied. I don’t really care who Eintracht Frankfurt or Celta Vigo stick upfront. Chelsea makes 3 (Havertz), Madrid play with Benzema who is about as far as you can get from a classic no.9. Bayern Munich round out the top 5 but Lewandowski is far more than just a classic no.9 (which is what I said in my initial post).
take a chill pill, dude.
Once again my point is proven that their are many posters on here who know feck all.‘Real teams’ aren’t using classic no.9’s. Let alone 37 year old ones.
Best time for this to happen with the atlético game being next! Hopefully we see a vintage Ronaldo performance.Incredible today, truly incredible. Can he find his best form for the end of the season? There is hope if he can.
I agree with this 100%Yeah and I mean, my first post here tonight at least tries to be level headed on that. A game like this doesn't change the overall course of the season. I'm not going to pretend he didn't have a bad spell lately. I just don't think, overall, he's been as terrible as people make it out to be, either. But you know, people are specially reactionary with him, to the positives and negatives.
Yourself included, no doubt. Cristiano Ronaldo mid-March, scores for the second time for the entire year of 2022, yet “is so far ahead of any player at United, it’s not close”.Once again my point is proven that their are many posters on here who know feck all.
Bayern, Real, Juve, Dortmund, they must be using fairies as strikers.
Also that 37 year old Ronaldo is so far ahead any player at United, it’s not close. Yet somehow he’s the “problem”.
Get your facts up. Ronaldo is not a poacher, he's a wide left forward, since 2016. Before that he was a left winger. A poacher is someone like Inzaghi, or GerdTo be fair he probably meant the "poacher" type of striker, who is really rare at top teams these days. And yeah Ronaldo is that kind of player. Lewandowski has been mentioned for example and actually is a bad example. He is a very complete striker and would be a great fit for City but also obviously Bayern. Ronaldo wouldn't be. But yeah let's end this debate already here either way. Because the whole thing "He would score 100 goals here and there" can't be proven from either side, so it's a bit pointless.
The whole "Put a striker into a better team and he scores more" thing doesn't work out though all the time. We have several cases where strikers actually fared better when they are the focal point of a worse team.
People bringing up the whole service and bad team thing all the time don't know what they are talking about either way. Ronaldo is one of the players with the most chances and shots in the league. Today also proving that he is getting indeed enough service for a hattrick, isn't he? Let's be honest, he was just much much better today then he was in a lot of games before.
Also for everyone now bringing up stats and rewriting the season as "He was actually never that bad". He scored all of his goals in 8 games. 7 out of those in 3 games. Massive match-winning performances, no doubt about that. But he also didn't score in the other 16 games he played. This just further hammers the point home that he maybe shouldn't start every game and we keep him fresh for those big performances. He can still deliver those, but this season so far showed he can't play like that every week. Maybe he awakened today and will prove me wrong and all of you right, but probably not. I would love to see him scoring those goals for fun now too. But please stop mentioning then that we are that bad of a team that he can't score because nothing has changed from that point and you can't have it both ways.
I dont mind them today.I mean, he did just score us a ridiculous match winning hat-trick, but guess you had your blindfold on.
When Conte is saying that, it’s obvious that he’s carried us this season.
I agree with this 100%