Good. Best to part ways. He's not committed to our next direction, fair enough.
Cristiano Ronaldo (I stay)
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Good. Best to part ways. He's not committed to our next direction, fair enough.
A cleaner is at least employed by the club. Unfortunately, Fergie no longer is. We've had 6 managers since him. It's weird that we still call him in to sort shit out. If we want to become a big club again we need to act like one.
Isn't the major issue that nobody wants to sign him rather than us preventing it?
We have said we want him to stay but that is pretty much universally the done thing.
And why we should never have brought his selfish arse back in the first place
If his heart is set on Atletico and they are interested, there may be merit to exploring a Griezmann swap. We'll need a forward, he isn't wanted there and is a Man Utd fan. I know his form has been quite poor but I don't see many options.
He’s a club director I think?
ETH obviously disagrees since he has clearly stated numerous times he wants to keep Ronaldo
That would be an absolute disaster for team morale if Ronaldo walks out with a raise.
I think it will happen and probably be kept between them. Ronaldo will need to talk up the season in the media and he will.
Atletico Madrid seduce him the most = they are the only club even remotely interested
Isn't it a bit weird that he has no qualms about going to Atletico? He rejected Citeh to come here because he didn't want the fan backlash. Is he not worried about his Real legacy?
Is he accompanied by Mendes for "personnal reasons" as well?
Pretty sad to see Ronaldo ruining his reputation for one more shot at the CL in a team that won't win it in a World Cup year.
Pretty sad to see Ronaldo ruining his reputation for one more shot at the CL in a team that won't win it in a World Cup year.
Or the rest of the team should of done enough to stay in the champions league instead of downing tools
Isn't Greizmann still owned by Barca ? oh, god...I hope this doesn't involve some convoluted deal involving Greizmann, Ronaldo and Frenkie De Jong.
Atletico seduces Ronaldo the moist = they are the only club who are even remotely interested so he has no other choice
EDIT: im leaving the spelling error
What is United District Twitter? Do they know anything?
If we didn’t come in for him, he was defo going City. Loyalty stuff is nonsense.
Probably trying the same shit with RM as he did with us. I doubt they will bite.
Only works if anybody wants him though.
I still really like Griezmann as a player and think he would suit us brilliantly but my god that deal would be a ball ache.
I mean football has changed. In theory now yes Ten Hag has to be the top dog in the training room on the pitch and everything to do with selction, but anything to do with transfers incomings and outgoings then Murtough needs to be where the buck stops. Either way these talks and there outcomes should be should not be down to a former managers relationship with a player. As its Ten Hag who has to work with Ronaldo and Murtough who should be ensuring that Ten Hag has the correct players at his disposal, Anything that undermines that power base will only hurt the club in the long run
Joao Felix or nobody from my perspective.
I think we have enough of Griezmann’s type and need a number 9. He’s dropping us in the shit a bit late on to find one though.
I mean I don’t see why they both can’t be true. I’d still bin him off even if we finished 4th.
And this is why he should never be considered a legend of the club. I just hope to god the club aren't using Sir Alex to beg him into staying again.
All seems desperate.
All seems desperate.
You can say what you want. But in general, most neutrals will say Messi is atleast the best of his generation. The only exceptions are people who are affiliated with United, Real, Juve and the Portuguese national team.
And I will concur with those neutrals. Its very rare to get a performance from Ronaldo even in his prime whereby other than goals you feel like "wow what a game from him!" And that is because Ronaldo's allround play is atleast 2 levels below Messi. Messi's playmaking, dribbling and the magic in his goals are far superior to anything the goalpoacher has produced at anytime in his career.
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This whole saga is just odd, I find it crazy that Ronaldo's camp are really doing this without having any potential suitors lined up.
I've seen no suggestion anywhere that we intend to hinder his move, much less block it entirely. We've maintained a position in public that he's not for sale, but that's just common sense. The biggest problem he has right now is the fact that no one is particularly interested.
Were do you play Griezmann, he excels as a second striker and not in any other role.
He's a €150m player so that's a no go, unfortunately. Griezmann is an aging star and his return hasn't worked out - its almost a like-for-like with Ronaldo.
Exactly, its almost like he knows that and is coming back to say I want out so we can say no don't go.
Well he can feck off.
I haven't watched much of him in recent years but whoscored.com have him playing as a centre-forward for the majority of his appearances last season, with attacking midfield as his second most frequent position.
I didn't think MUFC would ever go for this BUT given how complicated it is, it may just interest our board. Our board love to swim against the current (and fail).
So keep paying 500k a week for 39 year old Ronaldo?! Jesus Christ, feck that. We can't afford to miss out on emerging talent because we're still paying a king's ransom for a 40 year old. If he was already a barrier to a pressing game last season, how will that no longer be a problem when he's even older?
He excels playing next to another striker were he can drop off and get on the ball.
Any other role he'll struggle.
But going to City was a guarantee of titles and opportunities for loads of tap ins from 6 yards. I can see why he might have been willing to sacrifice sentiment in that situation. Atletico offer neither and if anything the prospect of a 37 year old with zero on pitch work ethic playing up top in a hoofball team under a team oriented maniac like Simeone should have him running for the hills before loyalty to Real even comes into the equation. It just seems like there is no benefit to this.
Agreed.
But, why did he come to us instead of MCFC? Did we offer bigger wages?
At MCFC, he'd probably score 30 league goals a season.
How ironic would it be if he went to Atletico, ruined the team harmony, finished 3rd in the CL group and ended up in the Europa League anyway.
I wonder how the Atletico fans are going to react to this if it comes off? They don't seem too happy at the moment
It's all well and good this Ronaldo, just no one wants you
Don't be obtuse for the sake of argument, especially with regards to the death of a child. Obviously people empathise with what Ronaldo and his family went through. That doesn't mean they can't also think Ronaldo has missed all of preseason because he wants to leave the club for footballing reasons.
Well atleast he's there.
He's probably there to start planning the Christmas party.
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