Cristiano Ronaldo (I stay)

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Damn, come back to reality, if you think that's piss poor you are detached from reality
By all accounts, we've got £140m (plus sales, maybe) to spend and need a new left back, new right back, a centre half, at least two central midfielders, a left forward and now a 25 a season goalscoring number nine immediately ready to play 40-45 matches.

Martin Lewis couldn't make that budget and list of requirements work.
 
If he leaves then we would need to find a 20+ goals a season striker which is a rarity now. Most of the available targets have already moved on . Victor Osimhen could be an option from the ones that remain or if we can lure Lewandowski somehow away from Barca.

Ronaldo and Lewandowski swap is the only option I can see suiting us.
We don't have 80-100m to bang on a striker.
 
I also really feel that any team that is set up to get the best out of players like Rashford Martial or an ageing declining Ronadlo are on a hiding to nothing. If you’re aiming to win stuff and you’re emphasising supplying one player in particular you should at least insist they are amongst the best players in the game. It’s just expensive place holding until the next thing comes along otherwise.
Yeah, but the thing is I think the expensive placeholding would have been a marriage of convenience for this season had Ronaldo been satisfied to stay. He gets paid a fortune, we get to assess what ETH requires from a striker. Even this forum is struggling to identify interesting forward options this summer and that's without being encumbered by a need for realism.
 
Aye, well that's great but who realistic will we replace him with. United are a joke, can't get any transfer over the line. He has too stay.

We'll be fine without him. Yes we'll miss him but if he wants to go let him.

And let's wait till end of window to judge if united are indeed a joke or have just been a slow burn
 
It does kinda suck but Ronaldo has always been about Ronaldo, it's kind of hard to be angry about him when we've seen it all before. The only way i'd be really annoyed is if he joined another English club but him leaving for a foreign club might be best for all parties. We'd get rid of a massive wage on our bill and start looking to the future and he gets his precious champions league record and the chance to better it.

If he thinks he's got a couple of years left maximum then good luck to him. His goals were basically the only exciting thing about last season.
 
He scored 3 more PL goals last season than Vardy, 4 more than Zaha. He's replaceable.

In a dysfunctional team tbf.

Didn't see Rashford getting near those numbers.

I'm OK with him leaving but folks need to snap out of it and realize he needs replacing with a good CF.
 
Upset? I'm just bemused at the insanity of looking at the pile of shite that was Manchester United last season and being delighted at the prospect of losing the only bloke in the squad who looked like scoring.

I can't wait to see who the list of world beaters we can get hold of, ready to play almost every game we play all season with Martial to compete with, for the £40m we'll have left to spend this summer.
I agree at the insanity of people being happy about this, but does playing a 38 year old striker suit eth’s style and can he bring the energy needed? If not and we get get someone in to replace would that might be a blessing in disguise? Enthusiasm and hunger etc

but I honestly get losing him would be a big hit with regards to the professionalism he shows the others, and our youth, week in week out. Flip side, I won’t miss him walking off the pitch with his hands in the air waving around like he’s not allowed to get subbed
 
Had a feeling this would happen with us missing out on CL. Disappointing news as I really wanted Ronaldo to help lead us into the new era under ten Hag.
 
Then what type do we need? He scored 25+ goals including a few deciders, he IS the only type of striker we need. I say force him to stay, his dedication is strong enough to keep going. Who should step in and score the number of goals he does anyway? 3/10 Rashford probably not.
I think others have made a good comparison to United with RVN versus Saha, though RVN was a better player who scored more goals, you had to build everything around him, and others on the team scored rarely. With Saha we were a better team.

Ronaldo is not a possession style, build up play striker, imho. He can do it, but it’s not what he’s best at.

We need a serious rebuild, this next season is for building, not for winning. Having Ronaldo for one more season doesn’t really solve any problem. We might miss him, but we’d have to replace him next summer anyway.
 
He’s done it to us again!
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If the Lewandowski deal proves difficult, I wonder if Barcelona will sign Ronaldo with some of the De Jong money?
 
Hilarious that this tweet is being posted on a RedCafe that thinks Bruno is shite and Rashford only gets games because he's English.

Now we apparently don't need to replace the output of the only guy who looked like scoring all season. :lol:
we scored more goals every season without Ronaldo
 
We've got £140m to spend and need a new left back, new right back, a centre half, at least two central midfielders, a left forward and now a 25 a season goalscoring number nine immediately ready to play 40-45 matches.

Martin Lewis couldn't make that budget and list of requirements work.

I'm not sure people understand this unfortunately.

We tend to spend about 80m net a summer.

We have next to no-one to spend as we managed to totally screw up Pogba/Lingard situations and let 100m of players go for free.

We're hoping (not even sure) that we can spend 60-70m on FDJ, and 15m on a reserve full back.

That's our budget.
 
Really going to miss this phrase on here. Single handedly shite from August to February.

Yeah, people magically forget many months where he was beyond shite, couldn't even handle first touch properly.
 
I wonder how this affects the FDJ deal.

If he was a bit unsure before, this will not help.
 
I wonder if this is why the kit was delayed? there would be a million #7 shirts returned if it was released yesterday.

Eriksen and FdJ looking on to the news as well....
 
I think others have made a good comparison to United with RVN versus Saha, though RVN was a better player who scored more goals, you had to build everything around him, and others on the team scored rarely. With Saha we were a better team.

Ronaldo is not a possession style, build up play striker, imho. He can do it, but it’s not what he’s best at.

We need a serious rebuild, this next season is for building, not for winning. Having Ronaldo for one more season doesn’t really solve any problem. We might miss him, but we’d have to replace him next summer anyway.

If he had a FDJ or Eriksen feeding him good passes he's still a goalscorer but presently he can't be fed passes by McT or Fred and Bruno and Sancho were not so good either.
 
I wonder if this is why the kit was delayed? there would be a million #7 shirts returned if it was released yesterday.

Absolute certainty.

I just really hope this news has been known to the club for a good while and didn't drop like a massive bombshell.
 
I wonder if this is why the kit was delayed? there would be a million #7 shirts returned if it was released yesterday.

Isn't it supposed to be presented on the 8th? Very much doubt the Ronaldo problem will be solved by then
 
You favour running about a bit over top quality finishing?
We replace Ronaldo with King we're finishing 7th or 8th
I'd happily have us finishing 17th if that means we can get rid of that narcissist twat and let ETH build a young team and implement his football.
 
By all accounts, we've got £140m (plus sales, maybe) to spend and need a new left back, new right back, a centre half, at least two central midfielders, a left forward and now a 25 a season goalscoring number nine immediately ready to play 40-45 matches.

Martin Lewis couldn't make that budget and list of requirements work.

:lol:

Let's just hope ETH can do the main part of the job and make the current players perform to a decent level.
 
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