Cristiano Ronaldo leaves by mutual agreement | SIUUU Later

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JagUTD said:
I won't celebrate it as regardless of his poor seasona and attitude in the past 6 months or so, he remains a legend in mine and I would assume most United fans eyes.

Those who are angry, and that's probably most of us will come to forget in time and remember the many great memories and moments he gave the club. For a brief period United were the best side on the planet with the world's best player.

On a more petty note and because all this is to fresh, I hope he has an awful world cup and can't find a club.
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I was initially thinking "what a wholesome post"
 
The greatest player I’ve personally seen play for us. Been to both debuts. What a player absolute GOAT
 
Van Piorsing said:
Hopefully this ends the stop gap policy.
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We had largely moved away from Woodward's style of going for names over usefulness to the team.
But this was always going to be the ultimate transfer that had to happen. It's happened, it's over, and hopefully all future transfers follow the style of the summer. Promising youngsters, potential to be worldies or 29/30 year olds who are excellent now.
 
it's pretty simple. People are celebrating hard that he's leaving the club, that doesn't happen to "legends of the club".

first time he left he compared himself to a slave, second time he pulled the Piers Morgan card. He can take his "I love United BS" and shove it.
 
Anyone see he apparently posted that header he scored against us for Madrid on his Instagram. Absolute cretin he'll never be considered a legend here. Please don't sing his name again either.
 
Gator Nate said:
This is what I suspected. They held all the cards after the interview.

It's all sad, really. We never should have signed him. That was bad business from the start. I understand the emotional side of it, but there was a lot in his past to indicate it was never going to work. To this day, I don't believe Ole wanted the signing but was left with no choice, either explicit or implied. And I am convinced that's what led to the locker room breakdown that cost Ole his job.

That said, ETH handled the whole situation about as well as any manager could.

Ronaldo's biggest challenge going forward is finding a team that wants him.
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Honestly don't think Ronaldo even cares about the pay out, he could earn all that back easily any time if he wants to, by just posting around 10-15 sponsored post in his social media account. Its clear he just wants out of here, clear his mind up before the WC, and have a fresh new start elsewhere.
 
Hopefully he goes to Chelsea and further complicates their title challenge. But Potter might accommodate him and get the best out of him so he might have one last hora.

Either way best scenario for us. He doesn’t fit into the direction we’re heading and system ETH wants to play.
 
Longshanks said:
An absolute marvel in his prime, one of the the very best to ever play the game. It was an honour to see him play in his pomp in his first spell. From a step overing 'show pony' to a remarkable goal scoring machine.

I don't think anyone really believed that he was the player he once was when we re-signed him but there was hope he wouod still offer enough to be worthy of the circus.

Unfortunately he became all to clear quite quickly that he was very much in decline and quite a sharp one at that, despite some occasions where he rolled the years back and still produced the magic it was very now the exception rather than the norm.

Shame it's ended the way it has but ultimatly he has always been a bit of a cnut and his ego can't cope with his decline.
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Great post.
Definitely the best of the very best in his first time at OT.
And I was quite excited when we resigned him.
Last season he was pretty good and certainly did well goalscoring wise.
But with the arrival of EtH, United has moved on, while Ronaldo has not.
It is very sad the way it has ended. But this was the only sensible outcome.
 
Aretak said:
For all his failings, I very much doubt Ronaldo was one of Ole's transfer targets. The club wanted him for obvious financially-motivated reasons and Ole was either too spineless or simply not in a position perhaps to push back. The fact that it was Sir Alex that called Ronaldo and begged him to come is telling enough in itself.
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It takes a lot to be the boss. Regardless of Ole being in charge of the decision or not, the buck stops with him. If he had a proper vision for the club, he would not have it to have Ronaldo back. I don't want to be too harsh on Ole as the circumstance is difficult. Being former teammate of Ronaldo + him being club legend did not help at all. Overall a disaster, but club leaders are paid big $$$ because they need to make critical decisions correctly. They got Ronaldo decision extremely wrong.
 
Shane88 said:
Hmm, does this give any other unhappy players down the line agency to bully/provoke us into getting their way?

Should've left him rot for 6 months, in my opinion.

At least the prick is gone.
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I thought about it but not everyone will be on 500k a week. "Regular" players will just rot at home.
 
duffer said:
It most certainly does not. Mourinho left Chelsea by "mutual consent" in 2015 and he was paid millions.

Ronaldo might not get a penny form Man United but "mutual consent" is kinda meaningless.
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Yep, just means both parties signed the contract amiably without gong to courts.
 
Good business decision by the club. His agent now owes us a decent striker as we gave him an easy out for his best client. I'm sure he can magic one up in January for us.
 
AlPistacho said:
Hopefully he goes to Chelsea and further complicates their title challenge. But Potter might accommodate him and get the best out of him so he might have one last hora.

Either way best scenario for us. He doesn’t fit into the direction we’re heading and system ETH wants to play.
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Title challenge?
 
Raoul said:
He got what he wanted, so did Piers. A well orchestrated operation.
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Agree both of them have had the impact it was designed to do even with Morgans other pal Pietersen sticking his oar in as well. Utd just move on now get another striker in ASAP he will soon be forgotten again like he was the first time he went. He owes UTD everything UTD owe him feck all .
 
GlasgowCeltic said:
I fancy him to cost Napoli the league
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ADL and Napoli are never in a million years going to threaten to blow up the good thing they have going on there for a passed it 37 year old...

They already passed on the chance even before the start to the season they've had, no chance now.
 
SIUUUU later. Nice!

Ronaldo got what we wanted and we got what we needed. Great. Ronaldo may well tear MLS apart, as Ibra did, and he'll enjoy the saturation media coverage, which he craves above all else. I live in a state in the US with three MLS clubs (and I travel to Denver and Portland frequently and make a stop in Seattle from time to time) and I'll be sure to get tickets when "Inter Miami" is in town.
 
Shane88 said:
Hmm, does this give any other unhappy players down the line agency to bully/provoke us into getting their way?

Should've left him rot for 6 months, in my opinion.

At least the prick is gone.
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No need stoking all the drama to be fair, better to rise above the pettiness.

Also no other player brings that amount of media drama that Ronaldo does, neither are they paid half a mil per week, so chances are things won't go for them as planned if they tried to pull this nonsense - they could well be left to rot in the reserves.
 
Hopefully he goes to Chelsea and gets Potter sacked in the span of one month. It is what Boehly deserves.
 
JPRouve said:
United threatening to sue is the opposite of neither side wanted it to drag on. If we believe the reports, United gave him an ultimatum, you leave now for free or later while paying us.
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No that threat was just the termination which is a legal matter because of the contractual monies owed. You may wish to interpret it as us trying to sue him for money if it makes you feel better but to me its clear it isn't. We wouldn't win a penny based off what he said.
 
Shark said:
Anyone see he apparently posted that header he scored against us for Madrid on his Instagram. Absolute cretin he'll never be considered a legend here. Please don't sing his name again either.
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Just checked Instagram, he hasn't done that
 
Infestissumam said:
it's pretty simple. People are celebrating hard that he's leaving the club, that doesn't happen to "legends of the club".

first time he left he compared himself to a slave, second time he pulled the Piers Morgan card. He can take his "I love United BS" and shove it.
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Mostly only on this thread. Everyone agrees he had to go after the interview but the vast majority are showing respect for what he did for the club.
 
Sandikan said:
We had largely moved away from Woodward's style of going for names over usefulness to the team.
But this was always going to be the ultimate transfer that had to happen. It's happened, it's over, and hopefully all future transfers follow the style of the summer. Promising youngsters, potential to be worldies or 29/30 year olds who are excellent now.
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Exactly this plus bit of addition here and there of ambitious destroyer type in mood of 24 year old Lisandro.
 
He didn't try and sqeeze a pay out either from the sounds of it, seems he was happy to go.
 
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