Cristiano Ronaldo: Set to leave by mutual agreement

Is Ronaldo justified to say that he “feels betrayed” by Manchester United?

  • Ronaldo should be not be allowed to play for United again

    Votes: 1,536 81.7%
  • He's always been a massive bellend

    Votes: 884 47.0%
  • Messi has always been the better player

    Votes: 574 30.5%
  • He should be begged to come back with double the salary and ten Haag should bow to his greatness

    Votes: 126 6.7%

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I have come to the conclusion that the people who are in support of the notion he's been mistreated by Utd, actually don't watch our games. Even last season when he was scoring, it was at the detriment of the team and his decline as a player was already visible.
This Ronaldo situation is actually a fairly easy way to see who's been watching Man Utd games extensively or not

Pretty much.

I'm actually amazed how many people still think he's a top player.

It's delusion of the highest order.
 
Im not sure how to feel about this...

But he also have some points, United is not where it should be. The managers and players we had/have that actually have won things, all seem to be very critic on how the whole club is run.

And for us to suddenly rely on players like: Rashford, Martial, Fernandes and so on.... Players that never won a big league or a big cup. And a manager that never been in a top league or never won a top trophy.

While Ronaldo may not be the solution, im even more sure our current squad isnt the solution either.

Ronaldo left United and spent his best years at other clubs. He doesn't own the club. He didn't build it up so what the feck is it to him if the football team isn't as good as it used to be. He's getting paid a fortune and let's face facts it's not exactly squalor either is it. His job is to perform on the pitch and he can't do it anymore. If this was a 28 year old peak power player then his interview might be relevant but he's past it and it's rather pathetic that he's off on a massive tabloid sulk.

Don't mix up the fact he's in denial that his ability is fading.

blaming United for that is surreal to me.

He's an old man in football terms he just needs to accept it.


United will be around long after he's forgotten.
 
Yeah you’re probably right to be fair. He’s too invested to realise people would have far more respect for him if he held his hand up and said he’d made a mistake.

He’s not alone. Most of us were excited about Ronaldo coming back and ignored the vocal minority who were against it.
There was also a quieter minority who were both rather excited by it and also confident that it would end in tears.
 


I'm sure he is.

He's pretty much done everything possible to make sure Ronaldo's happy throughout the campaign. He made him captain recently and this clown has belittled him publicly like a child.

It's an embarrassment and he didn't deserve it at all.
 
Not really. He holds all the cards, clubs want his players and if players know he’ll back them then it’ll encourage players to use him.

Just look at Mino as an example, he was exceptional at looking after his players, so players kept using him, regardless of what clubs thought of him they had to keep dealing with him.
Yeah you’re probably right. The only way to challenge agents’ power would be if clubs acted in concert, but that’s hardly likely to happen.
 
Will his fans start hating United now? I think players have as much following as clubs do thesedays.
Those aren't United fans. The sooner the "In Cristiano we trust" brigade feck off the better. They can enjoy watching Saudi football or the Chinese super league.
 
So many Saturdays and Sundays with Martial and Rashy has left me feel alone and disappointed.

Now it has got so far, even when they put it in, i still dont belive they will turn up the weekend after.
Gosh - which Saturdays and Sundays were these?

Martial’s main reason for failing to turn up is that he’s usually injured.
 


Hopefully he doesn't play for us again.

His entire interview was a disgrace and he's sullied his image for good with a lot of United fans needlessly.

If he wanted out, he could have gone at the Glazers purely and he would have heralded as a hero. Instead, he came off like a moron.
 
Of course they prefer playing without the guy who berates them at every turn, doesn't perform, throws his toys out of the pram when the team is doing well and generally couldn't give a shit about any of them. I doubt his teammates at RM loved him either. I'm sure they appreciated his contributions to the team but someone like Ronaldo is not a likeable person on a personal level.
 
I still don't get this respect, or a player feeling slighted thing, a manager is basically your boss, if he doesn't feel you're ready to play then that isn't disrespect, that's your boss telling you that you're not in the condition to contribute, so get your ass into gear and get in the condition to play, specially when you've just been given a couple of months off by said boss.

Imagine a regular employee in the same boat as Ronaldo over the summer, sick kid (it happens a lot) do you think their employer would let them take 2 months off with full pay?

Would the manager defend him to the CEO if the CEO caught that employee sending out CV's to other companies during the time off given to him to be with the sick kid?

Would the manager then integrate that employee when coming back to the office after no other company wanted him?

Would the manager again defend that employee if the CEO caught him leaving the office at 2pm?

Would the manager defend the employee if he refused to do the job?

The answer to all of the above would be a resounding no, you may get some leeway if your child was ill, but that isn't legally required and I'd bet 95% of companies wouldn't give 2 months paid leave.

If a regular Joe/Jane did the above to a regular company they'd have been out the door - makes me question why there are people defending the indefensible.
 
I like Luckhurst current reports but I don't like Luckhurst. #conflicted.
 
I'm unable to quote the media source from a couple of pages back but I think what Rio's trying to get at is that he has been through this experience when he left Man Utd at the end of 2014.

When he talks about communication, he's mentioned in the past that it took until after the last game of the season before Woodward & co bothered to tell him that he wasn't going to be kept on after his contract expired, and after all he'd been through wasn't given the courtesy to say goodbye to all the fans at OT, etc.

He's also been betrayed by Man Utd in that sense so probably feels empathetic with Ronaldo's current position having been through it himself.

I don't think anybody in their right mind is defending Ronaldo for doing this interview, but some of these guys have experiences with the clubs handling of situations that may give them a different perspective.

I think you are right in the way that Rio, in addition to Graeme Souness, are not really talking about United and Ten Hags communication with Ronaldo, which they know nothing whatsoever about. They are talking about their own experiences being laid off by Man United and benched for Liverpool. They are just so dense that they can’t see the difference. Rio seems to actually think he knows what United and Ten Hag has communicated to Ronaldo, based on free fantasy, Ronaldo’s delusional ranting and his own memory of being laid off.

Souness level off density is such that he claims he would never accept being benched when first told he will play, and he would never avoid benching a player he fisrt told to play of it was best for the team, and any manager that would bemch him thus or player that would complain about it is a toxoic moron and he would resign on the spot if it happened.

Some people should simply be spared the embarassment of public debate.
 


Rashford, Martial, Bruno. I’m sure the likes of Garnacho and Antony look up to him a lot.

I wonder how Casemiro and Varane feel having played with him for so long, they must clearly be able to see he’s not the same player.
 
I still don't get this respect, or a player feeling slighted thing, a manager is basically your boss, if he doesn't feel you're ready to play then that isn't disrespect, that's your boss telling you that you're not in the condition to contribute, so get your ass into gear and get in the condition to play, specially when you've just been given a couple of months off by said boss.

Imagine a regular employee in the same boat as Ronaldo over the summer, sick kid (it happens a lot) do you think their employer would let them take 2 months off with full pay?

Would the manager defend him to the CEO if the CEO caught that employee sending out CV's to other companies during the time off given to him to be with the sick kid?

Would the manager then integrate that employee when coming back to the office after no other company wanted him?

Would the manager again defend that employee if the CEO caught him leaving the office at 2pm?

Would the manager defend the employee if he refused to do the job?

The answer to all of the above would be a resounding no, you may get some leeway if your child was ill, but that isn't legally required and I'd bet 95% of companies wouldn't give 2 months paid leave.

If a regular Joe/Jane did the above to a regular company they'd have been out the door - makes me question why there are people defending the indefensible.

Perfectly summarizes it.

Honestly, this club has coddled him far too long.

Terminate his contract if it's viable legally and remind him he's not bigger than the club. Perez was a genius for calling his bluff.
 
Those who voted for the last option should be banned. Maybe go set up their own CR7.net and wank themselves silly over Ronaldo everyday. How embarrassing. There are ex club legends who have done less than him and never put on the shirt again. Ronaldo should have his contract terminated and never be allowed to step foot in Old Trafford again. I also hope he flops at the World Cup.
 
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Those who voted for the last option should be banned. Maybe go set up their own CR7.net and wank themselves silly over Ronaldo everyday. How embarrassing. There are ex club legends who have done less than him and never put on the shirt again. Ronaldo should have his contract terminated and never be allowed to step foot in Old Trafford again. I also hope he flops at the World Cup.

You're a disgrace, ten Hag!

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I have come to the conclusion that the people who are in support of the notion he's been mistreated by Utd, actually don't watch our games. Even last season when he was scoring, it was at the detriment of the team and his decline as a player was already visible.
This Ronaldo situation is actually a fairly easy way to see who's been watching Man Utd games extensively or not

Its an easy win for Ronaldo fans, he scored 24 goals last year so shushhh.

However; he was a major part of us finishing 6th, getting battered in games.

We can have a player score 40 goals for us but if the team finishes 6th, its not amazing, compare to our highest scorer getting 20 and we get top 4.

People don't get this, every metric this season shows we are a better team without Ronaldo. Okay, some may say, stats mean feck all, visually, the eye test also shows we are better without Ronaldo.

Games we have pressed well and won the ball back high up the pitch, games where we came with intensity, Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs we looked 10 x better without him.
 
Rashford, Martial, Bruno. I’m sure the likes of Garnacho and Antony look up to him a lot.

I wonder how Casemiro and Varane feel having played with him for so long, they must clearly be able to see he’s not the same player.
Antony will also look up to his manager.
 
Those who voted for the last option should be banned. Maybe go set up their own CR7.net and wank themselves silly over Ronaldo everyday. How embarrassing. There are ex club legends who have done less than him and never put on the shirt again. Ronaldo should have his contract terminated and never be allowed to step foot in Old Trafford again. I also hope he flops at the World Cup.
I just voted for all 4 options. :devil:
 
Ronaldo left United and spent his best years at other clubs. He doesn't own the club. He didn't build it up so what the feck is it to him if the football team isn't as good as it used to be. He's getting paid a fortune and let's face facts it's not exactly squalor either is it. His job is to perform on the pitch and he can't do it anymore. If this was a 28 year old peak power player then his interview might be relevant but he's past it and it's rather pathetic that he's off on a massive tabloid sulk.

Don't mix up the fact he's in denial that his ability is fading.

blaming United for that is surreal to me.

He's an old man in football terms he just needs to accept it.


United will be around long after he's forgotten.
Well said
 
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