Man this sucks
Cristiano Ronaldo (I stay)
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Yip, I don’t think people actually get the reality of this (even if you don’t like him) this is very bad and we may have to scrap other transfers to fix the forward line which leaves us in the exact same position as last season.
ok palFair enough, best player in the world of the last decade wants to end his career playing top football and winning things. Not going to happen here.
I tend to agree, but it's a terrible year to sign a forward at this point. Virtually no one available.
Imagine wanting to go to napoli over staying with us, how the mighty have fallen 
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.
The man is said to be worth north of half a billion quid. If he wants CL football he will surely play for 250k to 300k a week at the age of 37/38.
If money is all he cared about he'd stay at Utd as nobody is giving him what we are any longer.
Cavani’s still unattached
Fans of clubs and not players will see this immediately.
Any serious team wanting to win major trophies won't touch Ronaldo, he just wants UCL football, he'd go to Sporting right now as long as he can keep the distance between him and Messi at the top of the goal scoring charts.
As good as confirmed then
Give me some suitable names... genuine realistic options for CF.
The are very limited and this is the reality.
I think his goals could be replaced in house, Sancho, Rashford and Bruno are much, much better than they performed last season and part of the reason their output was reduced was they too often deferred to him. We would still need someone to lead the line but I wouldn’t go like for like thinking our CF necessarily needs to be our main source of goals. I dont watch much football out of the EPL these days but someone like Werner would improve us, a high work rate player with pace that creates space for the others to exploit even if he‘s not a prolific goal scorer .
Imagine wanting to go to napoli over staying with us, how the mighty have fallen
He loves us but he's off at the thought of a couple more CL goals beside his name.
The tosser.
Ronaldo leaving in 09 sucked. Ronaldo leaving at the age of 37 is meh.
Sure, the worry is who do we replace him with but I think, privately, Ten Hag will be a bit relieved that he wants out. He doesn't fit the type of football ETH plays at all, he won't put the required effort off the ball which the manager's system demands and he isn't much of a team player. The problem is replacing him and his goals.
Martial and Rashford are completely off the boil whilst we don't look like we have the budget for a striker and then there is the issue of there being no obvious choice to sign with little to no ground work. But if we are lucky and one of thenguys already in the clubngets back to top form then this could turn out to be a positive turn for us.
It was so badly thought through. He should be City's problem. If we'd have put his £500k a week towards the midfield last summer instead it could have been us signing Haaland.
Depends on who it’s from. If within England, at least double that.
This. Totally bang on.
Please feck off and let ETH build a young team and implement his football. And yeah, so much love for the club. Legend my arse. He could have told us like few weeks ago so we didn't miss out on Nunez. Fecking wanker.
It absolutely will. One player came here for a world record transfer and contributed very little and came nowhere close to justifying his fee (not to mention the circus surrounding him every year), the other is a 37-year-old striker who's becoming increasingly immobile but demands he plays every week or there's going to be drama. He was not THE problem last season, but he's not the solution moving forward, either.
Obviously, we need to replace these two, but these two departures on their own are a positive.
Not happening. More pressure tactics from his camp to bring better players in.
Absolutely. Who could fail to be excited about going into a season having no striker in the squad?
If we can't replace him now, who were we going to replace him with next season?
A goalscorer he is, but he offers zero to the team and tbh was quite a frustrating watch for the majority of the season
A goalscorer he is, but he offers zero to the team and tbh was quite a frustrating watch for the majority of the season
Meh.
He can go, specially if he wants to...
He didn't bring goals, he soaked them from the rest of the team
We do need to bring at least one striker though
He didn't bring goals, he soaked them from the rest of the team
We do need to bring at least one striker though
Don't really care in the grander scheme of things. We need a younger mobile CF anyway. But couldn't this have been made clear at the end last season? We're now in July and have probably made no inroads into signing a new striker.
He's gone then.
The saying no player is bigger than the club is true but nobody is stopping Ronaldo leaving if he want's out.
The saying no player is bigger than the club is true but nobody is stopping Ronaldo leaving if he want's out.
Spot on. Although his fan club will have you believe we're lucky to have him and he's been doing us a favour
We will be fine.
The fact he didn't make this clear earlier makes Ronaldo an even bigger tosser.
Stop him? Push him out the door!
Hopefully we sell Bruno as well to remove every trace of anything attacking from this squad.
Feck him.
Not really a surprise, expected even with no CL. I'll be bothered only if we don't get a replacement forward. I trust EtH to find a way to make it work without a recognized no. 9.
Football is his profession and he is at the end of one of the best professional football careers in history. If I was in his position I would want to be somewhere where I can play in the top competitions now more than ever because each season now could be his last at the top. Why would you want to stay somewhere where there is a rebuild that could take a year or two that he ultimately won't be part of?
Well if we had the budget for a top striker I wouldn't be too bothered. A crisis meeting would be needed if Ronaldo goes because we'd need at least 2 quality attackers in and our budget wont allow that.
No way imo, he just won’t do that. It’s why I can see a scenario where he’s on the bench for Brighton having made an apology and ‘reaffirmed his commitment’ to the club.
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