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Nobody's saying its great, but if we bring in a good starter we can get by for a year until further reinforcing.
Cristiano Ronaldo (I stay)
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Nobody's saying its great, but if we bring in a good starter we can get by for a year until further reinforcing.
Its trueeeeeeeee. I didn't want to agree with the pundits but his signing derailed any wish of a fluid progressive modern attack. We haven't the time for a 37 year old poacher who can't do anything else. Same thing as Chelsea shifting Lukaku.This deserves a ban!
A Benzema style player is preferred. When Ronaldo eats, no one else does. He also is the worst presser in modern day history. I write this with teardrops smudging the ink on my page.
Club need to tell his circus to shut the feck up if he wants to leave and/or deny the rumours of him wanting to leave. We can then do our business and look to find a suitable replacement for him. Taking a medium term view of things, I think it's for the best that he moves on now. We can buy an inferior player yet paradoxically do better without him.
He's been amazing for us but he's not the future. He turns 38 in February so he's definitely not part of the new era.
Time to move on.
They simply don't have the money mate.
Yes they do mate
So he came back for SAF but doesn't love the club?
Great player but if he want's out then off you pop sunshine.
Seeing a lot of nervousness about who do we replace him with. I am sure there are plenty of footballers out there who have the right attitude and can bang in 15 / 20 / 25 goals a season. No player is irreplaceable.
Seeing a lot of nervousness about who do we replace him with. I am sure there are plenty of footballers out there who have the right attitude and can bang in 15 / 20 / 25 goals a season. No player is irreplaceable.
I didn't expect more than a season out of him in the first place, and while he has scored quite a few goals, he offers little besides that. In this day and age, it's hard to accommodate a striker who does nothing other than poke the ball into the net. The game has moved beyond that, you need strikers to contribute to the team's possession and press and the overall strategy. If the player scores a truly outrageous amount of goals, like Lewandowski or Benzema, then it can be feasible. Ronaldo didn't, he just stood out in a shit team. He didn't really score any more than you would expect of any reasonably good striker, but nobody else has been doing their job so we've relied on him.
If he does go, however, it really heightens the pressure to sign a replacement. As it stands, we have literally nobody else who can score reliably.
If he does go, however, it really heightens the pressure to sign a replacement. As it stands, we have literally nobody else who can score reliably.
If Ronaldo leaves us he will do it on high note. Did very well despite playing with some jokers and pretenders in the team last year. Still brilliant player.
He was willing to go to City. But sure, he loves the club.
Donny played false 9 at times for Ajax as well
That would say even more about him
I agree with you in that he’s definitely not the future. I wouldn’t want to keep an uncommitted player too to be brutally honest. The problem now is, I can’t see anyone taking him. 38 years old on 500k per week is Ronaldo.
Bruno as false nine.
Do we still keep Ronaldo jr ?
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Told ye straight out it would be the ronaldo show and the transfer would turn out to be an expensive disaster that in the short to medium term would more or less set us back. Same as at Juve, they were happy to get rid. He got a few goals and got us out of a weak CL group. I think we could have done that with a more together team and a younger long term striker project. We also probably would have finished quite a bit higher in the league than we managed to by the end
Sure. The problem is that it is now July already and in United’s supposed biggest summer for a decade, we have bought zero players and sold zero players. I have zero faith the club can do the necessary business.
We are really fecked next season if he leaves, not going to lie. Absolutely nothing in the striker market left, and all the options have moved.
Only viable one would be Abraham but I doubt Roma would sell.
Only viable one would be Abraham but I doubt Roma would sell.
Don't be absurd. It's the inverse of why we idolise players like Robson and Keane who were top of their fields and chose us. It's part of the word club.
If you expect feel the same for clubs I don't support as the way for the club I do support then what's the point?
It's not like I'm expecting him to play in the 4th division. There is being wise in terms of your career and there's Cristiano. He looks after number one, fair enough but it's not that admirable a characteristic to me.
The cold harsh reality is what it is.
I'm OK with him going.. IF there's a genuine suitable replacement.
Keep asking folks for suggestions and no one has one.
If ETH wants to keep him he stays, if not let him go, he's not the same player who can't be replaced anymore.
Well said, spot on about everything.
Get rid before he peddles out his "I am a slave" mantra again.
Better team before him, will be a better team after him.
Better team before him, will be a better team after him.
I think it will solve the Bruno Fernandes conundrum. They can't play together as it is.
Had he not returned last year, we would be 3rd/4th in the league last season, and Ole would still be our manager.
100% reality. He should not be leading this team. It was a vanity signing for "old times sake" we scored 16 more league goals the season before when he weren't here and we had part time strikers (Cavani) and the "elusive" Martial. Fancy that? When he comes to teams you become over dependent. Only Ronaldo and Bruno reached double figures 24 and 10. We were better with Bruno as our main outlet. Bruno got 28, Rashford got 21, Cavani got 17, even Scotty T bagged 7. Ronaldo seems like the type to expect every cross or cutback to land at his feet. We have seen him act petulant when his own teammates have scored (for other teams mind) so thats a bit troubling.
I'm sorry, but what top honours would he exactly be fighting for at Napoli?
Suspected this last year his main goal now is extending the all time CL record.
Up to him of course but it seems obvious.
Up to him of course but it seems obvious.
Summer transfer plans well and truly fecked then
You’re being a tad over dramatic. There are plenty of players available and United could look to do a swap deal with the club he may or may not move to. Plus it’s all speculation right now. I’m not fussed either way, good if he stays or leaves for different reasons.
Letting go of Ronaldo and Pogba will benefit United quite a bit imo.
A lot of Zero's there my friend
Not 100% sure about the reliability of Castles, stopped following that fraud many months ago. Many players left on a free and I think we can all see that there will be at least a few incomings in the coming days.
if and it's a big IF, he goes then there will be somebody to replace him. Think about it, there is probably three maybe five club's who could afford his wages and out of that two who would put up with his tantrums (Chelsea and PSG imho)
The pool of clubs after him is not massive
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What’s a satisfactory offer for him? Around, 10M?
Replace with Neymar?
Replace with Neymar?
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