LJJT
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Doesn’t matter who plays up top in this team you won’t kick the ball and if you do it will be a desperate attempt regardless.
What are his strengths? Does he physically trouble defenders in behind? Can he hold the ball up? Is he a danger when facing and running at defenders? Is he a pressing machine? Is his workrate down the channels infectious? Does he offer an out ball? Is he immense at linking play ala Kane? What as a number 9 does he actually offer? Goals are what he offers right? Except not really. Not anymore. That’s a lot of questions…
If he’s here next season he’ll need a fuxking Zimmer frameColeman dispossessed him in the latter stages of the game when he tried a dribble and it was like he was moving in slow motion. If he is here next season starting every game we are not improving.
Inter Miami (what a rubbish club name) is calling.
What are his strengths? Does he physically trouble defenders in behind? Can he hold the ball up? Is he a danger when facing and running at defenders? Is he a pressing machine? Is his workrate down the channels infectious? Does he offer an out ball? Is he immense at linking play ala Kane? What as a number 9 does he actually offer? Goals are what he offers right? Except not really. Not anymore. That’s a lot of questions…
Deserves better? feck off. He's part of this messDeserves better. 18 goals in this team of rubbish. Imagine if we actually played good football, CR7 would be pushing on for 30 goals at least.
smashing a kids phone is a story, hence why he knew he had to apologiseHere we go again with a nothing story
Ronaldo is far from being the problem with this side but at this stage I think it's becoming fairly apparent that signing him was indeed not a very sensible decision.
To make my case as cast-iron as I possibly can, I shall henceforth accept the lowest estimate of Ronaldo's weekly wage as accurate. This puts his earnings at around £480k per week, which translates to around £25 million per year. If we assume he will see out his two year contract at the club, which I think is a fairly reasonable assumption right now despite some fans' doubts, we can half his £13 million transfer fee to give a per season cost of about £31.5 million.
Now, whilst I'd like to reiterate at this stage that I don't think the regression in the team's performance level this season can be squarely placed at the feet of Ronaldo, I equally find the idea that he's added £31.5 million in value to the side to be somewhat risible. As a result of this, I'd say that the absolute bare minimum we'd be requiring from an aged Cristiano Ronaldo next season would be around £35 million in added value to make the transfer worthwhile (and this is being extremely generous in my view). To put it nicely, I'd say this is a fairly precarious prospect.
At this stage of his career, Ronaldo's usefulness is pretty well limited to the poacher role. He shows the occasional moment of good link-up play here and there, but the list of strikers across Europe's top five leagues whose link-up play is better than his is at this stage not all that short. His strengths are in the timing of his movement in the final third, and particularly in the box, to create goalscoring opportunities, as well as his exceptional jumping reach and heading ability. This is frankly not very useful for a side that struggles in the build-up phase. I also don't imagine it will be particularly convenient for Erik ten Hag should be be appointed our next manager, since his strikers at Ajax have seemingly all been considerably more apt at contributing to the build-up phase than Ronaldo currently is.
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A season of Cavani, Rashford and Martial up front thoughRonaldo coming back was a dreadful idea.
For him, yeahRonaldo coming back was a dreadful idea.
What a non-incident.
What? How is a grown man venting his frustrations by breaking the property of a literal child a nothing story? He's absolutely pathetic and petulant.Here we go again with a nothing story