Realistically the funds aren't there.
FDJ - 65M
Antony - 45m
Martinez - 45m
Malacia - 15m
That's 170m right there and we won't be spending a penny more.
Cristiano Ronaldo (I stay)
- Thread starter MyOnlySolskjaer
- Start date
- Status
Realistically the funds aren't there.
FDJ - 65M
Antony - 45m
Martinez - 45m
Malacia - 15m
That's 170m right there and we won't be spending a penny more.
What is our budget, because other than Moyes, our last three managers were giving on average 184M to spend in their first season at United.
Van Gaal 14/15 - 175.82M
Mourinho 16/17 - 166.5M
Ole 19/20 - 211.32M
Why, all of sudden, would ten Hag be given significantly less?
President saying he'll block it, not for sale, player doesn't want to move?
Sounds like it's off to me.
When did this happen?
Read around the threads a bit mate.
He said none of those things.
This will be a disaster for us. He was by far our best player last season.
Ignore. All logic and reason has gone
I'm not worried in the slightest.
Yes, it leaves us a little short staffed for the time being. But Murtough seems clever enough to understand the importance of a striker, so I think he'll make extra funds available. We might need to dip into 2023's budget to buy a replacement, but it's not like this is extra expense that's come out of nowhere. It's just come a little early. If anything, getting a fee for Ronaldo (rather than letting him go for free at the end of his contract) will make it that much easier to bring in the right man.
Also, I think Ronaldo makes us a worse team and has contributed to the divided dressing room. Not that I'm saying it's his fault. But deliberate or not, he doesn't help.
Yes, it leaves us a little short staffed for the time being. But Murtough seems clever enough to understand the importance of a striker, so I think he'll make extra funds available. We might need to dip into 2023's budget to buy a replacement, but it's not like this is extra expense that's come out of nowhere. It's just come a little early. If anything, getting a fee for Ronaldo (rather than letting him go for free at the end of his contract) will make it that much easier to bring in the right man.
Also, I think Ronaldo makes us a worse team and has contributed to the divided dressing room. Not that I'm saying it's his fault. But deliberate or not, he doesn't help.
Agreed.
This 'club ambition' stuff is horseshit. He just wants to play in the CL. Imagine his biggest rival playing in the CL every week while he has to play in the Europa League. Being the narcissist twat he is there's no way his gigantic ego can live with that.
Why we're always so fecking stupid? Let him leave or he'll stink the place up until he get what he wants. He'll get it anyway but by then our dressing room would be in deep shit. Last thing we'd need next season with a new manager.
The main point I took out of the story is Ronaldo saying he wants to leave IF we get an ACCEPTABLE offer which unless Bayern are looking at a short term option to replace Lewandowski isn’t going to happen, this is such a ‘look at me, give me attention as no one has spoken about me lately’ story and Ronaldo is very self important which is why he couldn’t be our captain even if Maguire is having a nightmare period.
This shows that Ronaldo has no real respect for the club and the respect he has is for Sir Alex rather than United itself, he could have asked to leave at the end of last season if he felt like that as this coming season was still going to be no CL football a couple of months ago but instead he’s done this to make himself the biggest talking point whilst we’re fixing priority areas of the squad.
Reality is that we’re in a World Cup year and Ronaldo would kill any love the fans had for him if he performed poorly because we didn’t bow to his demands, he is so all about his brand that acting so unprofessionally would do more damage to him than to us.
Unless someone offers us our money back on him which they won’t because of his wages then he should be told that he’s here for another year then free to do what he likes once his contract is up, his alternative is risking his brand and his professional image as well as his fitness in a World Cup year as I think if Ronaldo went against ETH with the new regime then Ronaldo will lose and also lose the respect of our fans and also possibly to an extent Sir Alex as well.
This shows that Ronaldo has no real respect for the club and the respect he has is for Sir Alex rather than United itself, he could have asked to leave at the end of last season if he felt like that as this coming season was still going to be no CL football a couple of months ago but instead he’s done this to make himself the biggest talking point whilst we’re fixing priority areas of the squad.
Reality is that we’re in a World Cup year and Ronaldo would kill any love the fans had for him if he performed poorly because we didn’t bow to his demands, he is so all about his brand that acting so unprofessionally would do more damage to him than to us.
Unless someone offers us our money back on him which they won’t because of his wages then he should be told that he’s here for another year then free to do what he likes once his contract is up, his alternative is risking his brand and his professional image as well as his fitness in a World Cup year as I think if Ronaldo went against ETH with the new regime then Ronaldo will lose and also lose the respect of our fans and also possibly to an extent Sir Alex as well.
Ronaldo looking after Ronaldo,thats why he wont be a legend in my eyes.
After all this club has done for him and how much love he gets from the supporters of this club,leaves a really bad taste on my mouth to be honest.
After all this club has done for him and how much love he gets from the supporters of this club,leaves a really bad taste on my mouth to be honest.
How come we finished with 16 points less than the season before + everyone scored significantly less goals after Ronaldo arrived?
He's a fecking problem and we'll be much better off without him.He wants out because we won't be in the CL and won't win the league.
Not because we're not signing players - because we won't be in the CL or win the league even if we do.
The whole 'I want out because we're not signing players' is an attempt to appease the fans: Look, I'm frustrated like you.
This kind of logic is so so weird.How come we finished with 16 points less than the season before + everyone scored significantly less goals after Ronaldo arrived?
I'm not really frustrated mate. I'm in favour of him going
Absolutely spot on, couldn't agree more with this.
Where do we think he'll go?
PSG, to line up with Mbappe and Messi?
AC Milan?
Would he take a huge wage cut to rejoin Sporting?
PSG, to line up with Mbappe and Messi?
AC Milan?
Would he take a huge wage cut to rejoin Sporting?
Would be an untypical move for them, I'd say.
Plus, unless I dreamed it - didn't Salihamidzic rule it out (as in, he said specifically that the Ronaldo rumours are bollocks)?
Amen
He’s shitting himself that messi gets 16 goals or whatever he needs to overtake him.
Just send him to Bayern and forget about it
I think, if Ronaldo goes, that will end our pursuit of Antony and will instead shift focus to a striker.
So is that "we would finish 17th without Ronaldo goals", like no one would score in his place without him.
Yeh and I blame Sancho too. Fecking sell Sancho and bring James back we will surely finish 2nd again.How come we finished with 16 points less than the season before + everyone scored significantly less goals after Ronaldo arrived?
We won’t be doing that either, everyone is playing games right now. There’s a 3 way transfer roundabout in play between United, Bayern and Barça and no-one wants to blink first.
Ronaldo should be allowed to leave but at £40M we have 1+1 so effectively 2 year contract, Bayern want the same for Lewandowski who has 1 year left or we do a direct swap with Bayern. If the Glaziers do sell though, they need to put another £90m, 20m in additional transfers and 70m in from their own bank accounts, I mean that’s only £10M per sibling the. Let ETH have a full £250M (120+40+90) to make some significant statement in the transfer. ETH could potentially then sign ;
T Malacia - 13M
NDJ - 57M
Y Tielemans- 35M
Antony - 50M
Martinez - 37M
C Eriksen - Free
L Martinez -60M
Sadly this would still be too many changes in one window and we would struggle for 5th or 6th position this season if we have any ambition of top 4 Ronaldo must stay however if his family are not settled then it’s understandable.
T Malacia - 13M
NDJ - 57M
Y Tielemans- 35M
Antony - 50M
Martinez - 37M
C Eriksen - Free
L Martinez -60M
Sadly this would still be too many changes in one window and we would struggle for 5th or 6th position this season if we have any ambition of top 4 Ronaldo must stay however if his family are not settled then it’s understandable.
He was by far our major problem
Hope we dip deep with both hands. Really need to correct the ship this season.
I meant that Ronaldo is saying to the fans 'I'm frustrated like you'. As if he's annoyed like us and that's why he wants out.
I dont give a feck what the goat want, my only concern is Manchester united. If we find a suitable replacement, he can feck off, otherwise he respects his contract with the club. I personally hope he leaves.
Anyone else genuinely not bothered? I actually thought he should’ve left anyway to give Ten Hag a clean break.
He’s only going to be here for one more year at the most either way. He’s 37, on 500,000 a week, and his numbers were decent but he looked well past it numerous times last season. I think him going is best for all parties, and he probably shouldn’t have come back in the first place.
He’s only going to be here for one more year at the most either way. He’s 37, on 500,000 a week, and his numbers were decent but he looked well past it numerous times last season. I think him going is best for all parties, and he probably shouldn’t have come back in the first place.
But but but....slave something something
That’s why Ten Hag gets paid £millions per year to manage the club and we have a scouting department.
But from a footballing perspective it could be a great way to reduce our reliance on goals from one or two players and start playing in a way where more players contribute to goals.
Would we be looking at getting a fee for him, or just letting him go?
It's not the first 6-7 months that's absolute nonsense. He was bad from December till February when fixture pill up happened. Don't re write history. Look at the fixtures in his first 10 games he was deciding matches especially CL when he was literally saving us.
How come we finished with 16 points less than the season before + everyone scored significantly less goals after Ronaldo arrived?
Well last season we weren't. We were crap without him and hugely struggled to score as Bruno was mostly cack, Rahsford looked hardly a footballer, Sancho had yet to settle in, Greenwood happened and Elanga wasn't yet good enough. Who says any of that will change now when Ronaldo leaves? People blaming our form last year mostly on Ronaldo are so weird. He was one of our better players and unless everyone mentioned above starts balling again we have a problem if we can't replace him.
I’ve always thought he’d only do one year anyway. Nice to have him back for a year but let’s all move on and see what happens.
How is it hard to understand. We scored more goals and looked a far better team BEFORE we signed Ronaldo. We literally finished second + ahead of Liverpool without him. That's the logic.
It's pretty obvious he's been sulking his way through the season. Half our team looked utterly demoralised the entire campaign. The problem in so far as I see it is that if Ronaldo comes in and tells you you're shit, how the hell can you even argue with him? And as a manager, telling basically the best player in world history (or second at least) how to play is an impossible job. I love Ronaldo and everything that came with him but I 'get it' insofar as he makes a team worse sometimes, he did the same at Juve.
"I love you but we are not just compatible, we are best as friends. Love is not enough"
Well none of us know the whole story so it’s daft for so many to be losing their shit.
For all we know ETH has told him he won’t play, will barely play, or will have to accept alot of time on the bench.
Or, he’s told him he’ll be first choice every week and Ronaldo wants to leave anyway.
No-one knows, so I’m pretty calm about the whole thing. I’ve been confused about us being in for Eriksen, but it makes more sense to be now bringing in another attacking player.
- Status