Yeah true. But like he’s already loaded! Surely ending a great career gracefully counts for something?
Cristiano Ronaldo - Much Ado About Al Nassr
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If he continues to be this shit then at which point does he stop being the "super elite goat" at Al Nassr and simply becomes just an old man who is frequently benched for someone better? Even to the point where he has feck all sway with the club because nobody gives a shit about him anymore.
Right now everyone is going to Mrsool Park in Riyadh to see the Famous Ronaldo show, and when they get there it's just some fat dolphin in a paddling pool. Eventually people are going to lose interest in the novelty of Ronaldo playing in their league and move on. The nutjobs online will be the only ones checking in to see how he's doing. Hell, right now I'm only doing it because a month ago he was out player, and I'm bored of it already.
Even if he goes on an explosive run of ten hat trick games in a row it'll mean feck all. He's still in an amateur league.
Right now everyone is going to Mrsool Park in Riyadh to see the Famous Ronaldo show, and when they get there it's just some fat dolphin in a paddling pool. Eventually people are going to lose interest in the novelty of Ronaldo playing in their league and move on. The nutjobs online will be the only ones checking in to see how he's doing. Hell, right now I'm only doing it because a month ago he was out player, and I'm bored of it already.
Even if he goes on an explosive run of ten hat trick games in a row it'll mean feck all. He's still in an amateur league.
It was the Juventus fan who said Ronaldo made them worse. They even warned us that Ronaldo was done and thanked us for taking him.
Yes we bought some new players but the difference was bencing Ronaldo. Football is a team game and Ronaldo is not a team player. He couldn't do what ten Hag wanted from our striker position. We played and have been playing so much better without him. Like not just a little but better by alot.
Do you watch Ronaldo at the world cup? He is so done as a top player. He looked so lost out there. And now at SA he has been embarrassing so far. How ETH handled the Ronaldo situation was brilliant. I've never seen a player self destruct the way Ronaldo did. So glad his toxicity is as far away from us as possible.
Serves him right that prick Ronaldo.
Anyway, has luckyscout seen Rimaldo's legendary post in here?
Anyway, has luckyscout seen Rimaldo's legendary post in here?
Not against 500m, particularly with no taxes in Saudi. He could buy himself a lower table premier league club off this one contract if he wanted to. Plus I get the idea he's the kinda guy who won't know what to do with himself when he actually retires, semi retirement for that kind of enormous contract has to be much more appealing
This is nonsense, by far the biggest difference from last season is having casemiro in centre mid. Ronaldo was clearly done this season, but I don't think martial or weghorst up front is some mega improvement. Rashford actually looking like he can play football again is a big difference, and I know you might blame Ronaldo for his loss of form, but at times he genuinely couldn't beat a man, had an atrocious touch and couldn't shoot. Night and day from the player this year.
If we'd had casemiro and ten hag last year, we'd have seen a much better Ronaldo, he still managed 18 league goals last year. But we played him way too much and it accelerated his downfall, even Zidane 5 years ago knew to manage his minutes.
Also, I do think people underestimate the damage losing his son did to him. I know if one of my friends lost their child, I probably would give them far more leeway in terms of the behaviour over the next year or two
Saudi has income tax now they have for a few years, and VAT.
For non-saudi nationals it's 20% I believe but I'm not sure where it applies its net adjusted profit and I'm not sure if that's the entire salary or where it applies, for Saudi nationals its 0%.
I only know that because I was in the gulf until a year ago, there's definitely taxes.
Not just 2nd but the closest points difference since Ferguson retired, and immediately had us plummet to 6th while putting up the lowest points total in 30 years. And the team magically improved again this year after he was benched! Funny how that works, isn't it?
"closes points difference" you make it sound like it was 2 or 3 points. It was a whopping 12 points. Hardly close to winning a title or anything.
While Ronaldo leaving solved a lot of the issues in the team, he was definitely not the reason Ole failed miserably and got sacked by the end with Ralf following the same misery.
The current United side is far better than anything we put on during that 2nd spot season, and looks to be built on better foundation than this shaky team.
I was only going off what I'd heard if that's true then fair enoug he'd have to make do with 400m post tax. Although I imagine they might have been willing to waive it for Ronaldo, if they're wanting him as a brand ambassador to try and get the world cup of 2030
So true.
He wasn't the reason but he was part of it, as a team United had to chnage how they played to accommodate him, he held up Greenwood's progress though of course that's moot now, retrospectively it was a mistake to bring him back IMO
Ronaldo fecked himself up completely. He ruined the end of his career with no way to return. He was declining and passing through a period of awful form. He should have played it wisely and stayed on the bench of United while taking a senior figure among the team and as it went on I had no doubt he would have been of help either from the bench or even as a starter in some games from point to point. He needed to kill his ego and accept his decline and that he's still playing at a big club whose fans used to adore him.
But no, he let his ego kill him instead. He threw all his cards without any guarantee, asked to leave, acted like a prick and finished it off with that ridiculous interview. His ego made him believe he would get a new contract at any other big club once he left United. He didn't realize with his current form and salary, United was his best shot to stay relevant at top level, just by accepting to downgrade his role to a squad player and senior figure rather than the main man of the team.
Terminating his contract with United, finding no other clubs interested and ending up in Saudi League killed any chance for him to finish his career respectfully.
What a shame. For such a great player, he has the mindset of literally a 10 years old baby. A proof that not all successful people are actually mature or intelligent enough to know what's best for them.
His agent should also be blamed for that debacle because if the player is a crybaby, it's his agent's job to slap him to wake him the feck up.
But no, he let his ego kill him instead. He threw all his cards without any guarantee, asked to leave, acted like a prick and finished it off with that ridiculous interview. His ego made him believe he would get a new contract at any other big club once he left United. He didn't realize with his current form and salary, United was his best shot to stay relevant at top level, just by accepting to downgrade his role to a squad player and senior figure rather than the main man of the team.
Terminating his contract with United, finding no other clubs interested and ending up in Saudi League killed any chance for him to finish his career respectfully.
What a shame. For such a great player, he has the mindset of literally a 10 years old baby. A proof that not all successful people are actually mature or intelligent enough to know what's best for them.
His agent should also be blamed for that debacle because if the player is a crybaby, it's his agent's job to slap him to wake him the feck up.
It being a mistake doesn't mean he was the reason why Ole and Ralf produced this godawful season. Many of us who used to criticize Ole regularly despite his fans not liking it saw it coming miles away. It was just not sustainable. The collapse was bound to happen.
Him leaving solved a lot of issues in the dressing room, there's no doubt about it, but the United side he joined wasn't really good as some of you are claiming to be.
Ole's United was always a one bad result away from collapsing almost all the time.
Can't argue with much of this
Or maybe the mindset of someone who lost their infant son about 6 months prior? Given throughout the rest of his career he very rarely had issues with anyone else in the squad and was always described as a consumate professional, you don't think his bizarre behaviour over the last year or so could be linked to the death of his child?
It could quite possibly be the case and TBH someone should probably have told him to stay away from football, especially after missing pre-season
lads it’s rimaldo
I'm surprised so many people here think he screwed himself in some way because of where he's ended up. I don't like him, but he had no interest in being a squad player in anything United were doing, cup run or CL qualification or otherwise. From what we've heard his order of preference was:
Any CL club other than United > Sellout to the highest bidder >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. United
Given that no CL clubs were interested he got what he considered the next best thing. IMO we should count our lucky stars he didn't want to be here in any capacity. Even putting aside his off the pitch antics, we looked worse for having him in the team every fecking time.
Given that no CL clubs were interested he got what he considered the next best thing. IMO we should count our lucky stars he didn't want to be here in any capacity. Even putting aside his off the pitch antics, we looked worse for having him in the team every fecking time.
so if he’s stinking the place out then he’s a fat dolphin, if he’s putting in worldies then it’s because he’s playing in a fat dolphin. did you ever stop and think maybe we’re the fat dolphins in all of this? just swimming around, firing turd out of our blowholes.
Nice.
Even though I hated him for his behavior this season, it's still hard for me to watch him fail in that league. He can't allow his career to end like this.
He's proving that he's able to muck up not just in the Europa League, but also in Saudi Arabia.
That said, I'll hold off judgment till he has a run of games.
Love Rimmers, hate football. 15 years of unrecognised brilliance.
let’s hope he finds his feet there before he ends up getting one chopped off for stealing a living.
ooh.. he’s halfway there, living on a prayer
Stealing from Bon Jovi, what a cnut!
He'd seen in the summer that no Champions League club was interested though. I guess maybe he gambled on having a blinding world cup and lining up suitors, but if so, that was a crazy gamble, albeit no crazier than doing that interview.
rimaldo is the true GOAT.
Is that you Piers?
Ronaldo's head is already dropping
A tunnel stomp must be imminent
A tunnel stomp must be imminent
He must have really hated being a squad player or hated Ten Hag or the Saudi offer was just too tempting. He would have actually played a good number of games with Martial always injured. I'm glad he's gone though
And the "whopping 12 points" was the closest we have been since Ferguson retired. The next season's points total was the lowest in 30 years. Which part of that are you disputing?
The current squad wouldn't be performing at the same level if we had to shoehorn him in every starting lineup.
Fanboys: He's so used to facing quick defenders, that trick would have worked if the defender was faster. Ronalod is too good for that league
I would genuinely like to know what they think of all this in South Africa..
Did they expect a washed up player and are just happy to see the big name? Or did they expect someone who could still play and now feel cheated?
Did they expect a washed up player and are just happy to see the big name? Or did they expect someone who could still play and now feel cheated?
they’re too busy eating biltong and waving about their diplomatic immunity to care.
Wow I thought he was wumming
Of course it counts for something but this is €500m.
Wow I thought he was wumming
i don’t think it’s wumming to believe that if the hag was the manager he says he is, then why didn’t he set the team up in a way that meant ronaldo scored more goals? even if that meant we scored less goals as a team and drew/lost more games.