Pub league player can finish as 3rd topscorer in the PL at 36/37 and make the PL team of the season? If he was at such a pub standard what does that make the rest of the team then at the time?
Cristiano Ronaldo - Much Ado About Al Nassr
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Don't tell anyone, but Jorge Mendes bought him a place in the PL Team of the Season... He payed the FA some fat cash under the table for it. Shame other United players that season didn't have Jorge Mendes as an agent!
Only by people who are not that knowledgeable about his career. I've studied it a lot and he is someone that when you really take it upon yourself to look at what he achieved, you realise he's even better than advertised. That's why I laugh at people questioning him.
Has been proven right about all he said in the interview really. We are seeing change because of him now. United legend, keeping standards high across the board
questionable assignment of the term 'legend' given he forced a move TWICE, said the club was holding him as a 'prisoner' and came out to fecking Piers Morgan to publicly undermine multiple managers.His around game was absolutely sh*te bollocks and you know it.
Sometimes he does extremely weird gestures when expressing himself. Like when he celebrated La Decima by making a weird hand dancing move, or when he did a loud siu on stage in a suit, and the latest one is when he questioned why was his/someone's member that tiny as he cried in disbelief.
Nothing at all, entirely Ronaldo. Hopefully the new owners see sense and bring him back as a player-manager.
Better before he returned and it all turned into the Ronaldo show, better after he left when we got rid of the Ronaldo show. But his crazy cuIt won’t hear any different, just ignore the Piers interview, leaving the stadium early and all that, it’s all about the man child and protecting the man child’s image.
Ronaldo is and was a legend of this club and will almost certainly remain the greatest player any of us ever saw play for the club no matter how much you hate him. I can't abide your hatred of him well founded as it mostly is.
Well said.
Absolutely spot on
He was a fantastic player. He’s also a complete wanker. Which some of us evidently find easier to ignore than others. But that’s ok. We don’t all have to have the same heroes.
Alright yeah he is a wanker and possibly much worse. But he's also one of the greatest players to ever do it, and certainly without question the best any of us ever saw playing for United. I won't stand for you besmirching that as you have so repeatedly done.
Jesus some of the posters in here are like Trump supporters when it comes to Ronaldo, it is proper weird.
The phrase “playing for United” is doing some seriously heavy lifting there. He peaked long after leaving our club. The footballer we saw in a Manchester United shirt was very very good but not better than a few other United players who did give their peak years to United. I personally couldn’t give a rat’s arse how well he played in a Madrid shirt (after escaping the “slavery” he endured in England) and I can’t understand anyone who could. But like I said, that’s ok. We all have different criteria for our heroes.
That's exactly what they're like in the past 2 years. When defeated and out of hope they start saying everything is rigged and against them, if enough people get behind it, they start believing these conspiracies.
That's exactly what they're like in the past 2 years. When defeated and out of hope they start saying everything is rigged and against them, if enough people get behind it, they start believing these conspiracies.
Agree.
Did anyone argue he wasn't right? I don't remember anyone criticizing him for lying. A monkey could tell you the issues he supposedly raised. You're making it sound like we were all wondering here what's wrong with the club until saint Ronaldo enlightened with the truth because he cared so much about the wellbeing of the club. It's like the weird argument that since Mourinho was right about player X, that somehow made him the right man to fix us when player X has been criticized about the majority of the fanbase and public anyway. Really strange logic.
I love the notion that Ineos are investing all this money in infrastructure and changing the entire setup because of what Ronaldo said. One has to be a desperate Ronnie fanboy to push that narrative
I don’t know it.
I love the notion that Ineos are investing all this money in infrastructure and changing the entire setup because of what Ronaldo said. One has to be a desperate Ronnie fanboy to push that narrative
I think “copium” is what most of them have been on over the last couple of years, and lots of it.
Old man yells at swimming pool and a chemical company comes to fix it. Sounds about right.
I love the notion that Ineos are investing all this money in infrastructure and changing the entire setup because of what Ronaldo said. One has to be a desperate Ronnie fanboy to push that narrative
CR7 fans tend to twist reality just to glorify their idol. From silly claims like he stopped dribbling because he got injured, to others believing he won his first Ballon d'Or while playing as a midfielder and that he played that position for a long time at United. There are even those who think FIFA is against him and that everyone has always been against him. Zero logic. They say, repeat, and it could even be said they agree among themselves to increase the reach of their stories. It's quite interesting, actually. Pathetic, but interesting.
I've also noticed that many of them are teenagers who never saw CR7 play when he was young. Most started watching him post-2016, maybe, and the rest they've seen through videos on YouTube or TikTok.
In the Ronaldo 22-23 Performances thread on here, some folks made up Youtube compilations of the way he was "playing" until he fecked off in November.
The "performances" he was putting in were abysmal. Barely even looked like a footballer and scored a grand total of 3 goals.
Edit: Typo
He won the Ballon D'or at United. No one had done that since the Busby era. Nothing to do with what he later did at Madrid, he was already the best player pretty much any of us had ever seen at United when he left. I agree his slavery comment was ridiculous and he's always been a prick in increasingly large ways.
I find it impossible to read this sentence without hearing a scouse accent.
It’s an interesting, though not entirely incorrect, comparison with Trump. I sit quite in the middle. I respect Ronaldo for his dedication and football, and he is probably the best player I’ve seen play for United. He is, however, a bit of a dick.
This is fair comment imo. He's an absolute tool (and possibly even worse) but he's also comfortably the best player I've seen playing for United in my lifetime.
What happened to @RedRonaldo
He lost his son
You give Ronaldo too much credit.
This thread is already fire and the guy hasn't even played a game in the competition yet
@Gehrman Did he really?
@Gehrman Did he really?
This thread is already fire and the guy hasn't even played a game in the competition yet
@Gehrman Did he really?
It was a reference to RedRonaldo referencing Ronaldo as his son.
And you’re objective? Don’t make me laugh.
I was referring to 21/22 Ronaldo in my response.
22/23 Ronaldo was a different case altogether. He had a number of off-field issues in that late 2022 calendar year that you can pretty much understand why his level dropped so much. He pretty much said himself it was his worst year as a pro. I know the guy can seem machine like sometimes but he’s still human and I’d guarantee that if it was any other player, people would be finding excuses for why they were poor. But for Ronaldo, it seems to be completely ignored even when there were legitimate reasons.
I wonder if another Euro win would reignite the, at times, insufferable debate between him and Messi, which in my opinion was pretty much closed when Messi won the world cup. Two major international competitions each would certainly be a good arguing point.