Stopped posting in here cause my opinions were seen as an agenda. I’m not Ronaldo’s biggest fan...love him for what he is...but I would have preferred if we had gotten a less sentimental and nostalgic manager in sooner who recognised what was being built towards.
Rashford, Greenwood, Sancho, Martial, Amad, Bruno, Shoretire, Hannibal, Elanga, VDB...clever, technical, young, eager, fluid, energetic...could be sculpted into the same type of attacking threat carried by any of the top clubs in Europe by the right coach. The quality is undoubtedly there. Ronaldo changes the course of that development. It means no matter which manager comes in, some of these guys (Amad, Shoretire, Sancho) will struggle you get a look in in their own positions due to the formation required to accommodate Ronaldo. The others will be shoehorned into a formation that brings the best out of Ronny. I just think the teams ceiling is higher long term without Ronaldo...and sacrificing the overall development of a high energy and fluid attacking unit which I believe those players could become in a few years is not worth spending the next two seasons watching Ronaldo dragging us to victory over semi decent teams.
Not blaming him for today or any other result for that matter. Happy for his unbelievable contribution goals wise so far. Just don’t think he should be the focal point of the team. GOAT or not.
Again, I think people seem to think that we are trying to push C Ronaldo in to a worthless bush whilst trying to protect Ole as a manager or something - which is far far from the truth.
The fact is our season 2020/21 was looking much closer to a team even if we relied on personal brilliance.
Players like Rashford, Greenwood, Amad, Daniel James, Martial, Sancho, Bruno Fernandes etc all can play at the same speed and level. The only player that arguably plays a different type of football in our front line is Cavani & what does he do? The guy is everywhere, presses and the football is not built to get the best out of Cavani.
I've asked this from many fans - the football that is needed for Ronaldo to score goals; can Greenwood or Rashford score from that or even provide that?
Look at 90% of Ronaldo's goals this season - from crosses, volleys or just pure scruffiness of the ball bouncing around before he unleashes a fantastic hit
Now look at Greenwood and how he played before this season - 90% of his goals are instead on the floor, the balls are literally rolling on the floor to him.
That's gone and dissappeared right now from the club because nearly everything is a big cross or bouncing up and down in the penalty box for Ronaldo to be the main scorer.
The thing is before this season we had Bruno, Rashford, Greenwood, Martial, Potentially James, Sancho, Amad and other youngsters able to play to some cohesive level even if Ole was average at doing that - who were the players that stuck out as different? Maybe Cavani, Pogba and Wan Bissaka (again our forwards back then didn't need crosses to the level we do this season but hey ho) - but now the problem is not that we have added C Ronaldo to the team because its great, it's that we have added C Ronaldo and made him our main man around players like Rashford, Sancho and Greenwood.
What happens when Rashford, Sancho and Greenwood gets put on the bench to line up Ronaldo with the only striker he can play with in our whole squad in Cavani? Some of the fans start complaining why we spent 80 million on Sancho when it wasn't Sancho who was the unplanned transfer it was C Ronaldo. What happens when we play C Ronaldo and Rashford together or C Ronaldo or Greenwood - they can look crap because there is no cohesion between the two.
This is why I agree with this video: which says that we look like like a
Galactico team under Ole this season more than ever because we do. It's big names and less cohesion than ever before.