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%

  • Total voters
    1,881
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We shouldn't terminate his contract - that's what Rataldo wants.
First suspend him for a month without pay.
Then in January put him on a market valued at 1 million (maybe even less).
If there are no takers send him to train with youth and play with under 21. He will refuse to play with under 21 so we don't have to pay him anything.
And if there are takers, so be it - let them enjoy Botox narcissist with waxed eyebrows.
Absolutely terrible idea. Why would you put this Twat around a load of impressionable adolescents?
 
Now we just need a strong statement from the clubs supporters group to ensure the club knows CR7 should not wear the shirt again, so they truly know how most united fans feel.

Have there been a statement by any well recognised supporters group yet on this?
 
It's braindead thinking by those pundits, they act like if you take a player out you just lose their goals and its done.

EG we suddenly score 20 or so less goals and thats it we're down the table! When really United would have a different player still scoring goals.

I'd argue that Ronaldo fecked up the chemistry last year too, Rashford and Martial had a stinker of a season and I wonder if in part Ronaldo as a character made it harder for them (possibly not) but it's strange when Ronaldo is on the bench they start to play well again.

I mean in an alternate universe if Ronaldo went to City then Haaland might have chose United if he wanted the Prem (unlikely though).

It's great that we're letting him go now though, hopefully a long term solution can be found now.

You're taking them too seriously. These pundits are failed managers who keep displaying their shocking lack of tactical nous and understanding of the game. They played at the highest level, yet whenever they speak you can easily understand why England have never had a Premier League winning manager. Souness ( i know he's Scottish) in particular. Despite his role in Liverpool's decline, you would think a manager who had some of the success he had at Blackburn would have a lot more tactically and in terms of squad management to say, but he doesn't.
 
United and Ronaldo will most likely reach a compensation settlement, and I am sure Ronaldo will be receiving proceeds from all the television revenue his interview generates. Win win I guess?
 
Costs Ole his job (which means we land ETH), exposes the Glazers on the big scale, and then leaves; all within a year and a half.

Not too bad a signing in the grand scheme of things.

I mean when you put it like that...

Perhaps he was the disease that cures itself in more than one way.
 
We shouldn't terminate his contract - that's what Rataldo wants.
First suspend him for a month without pay.
Then in January put him on a market valued at 1 million (maybe even less).
If there are no takers send him to train with youth and play with under 21. He will refuse to play with under 21 so we don't have to pay him anything.
And if there are takers, so be it - let them enjoy Botox narcissist with waxed eyebrows.

Can't see any benefit to the club for this action - best to move him on.
 
well he kinda was - what other attackers were good for us last season? Champions League alone he saved us multiple times.
Do you assume that we would have played with 10 players if he wasn’t signed?
He destroyed the balance of the team.
 
No serious team will touch Ronaldo, even more now than in summer, and he will end up in a joke league either in US or in China.
 
I see it as a poor excuse really - the game's without him were still poor. Rashford for example would just constantly run into 3/4 defenders with or without Ronaldo playing.

I'm not saying that he did, I'm saying there could be a case made for that because Ronaldo is always at the expense of the team since a few years into his Madrid time.

I'm no Ronaldo fan and can't wait to see the back of him but Haaland is not or will never be in the same sphere as Ronaldo talent wise.

Haaland won't be the same sphere no, but I think Haaland will beat all kinds of goal scoring records
 
well he kinda was - what other attackers were good for us last season? Champions League alone he saved us multiple times.
In the CL, maybe but anywhere else no. This season and the one before haven proven this to be a myth. Plus Ronaldo's insistence on playing every game pretty much killed competition at the position. Cavani and Martial got shit on for wanting to leave but they were 100% justified due to the blatant lack of merit at their position. Look what is currently happening when players have to earn their place. How come no one is telling him to put his head down and embrace competition? Martial wouldn't have had a sniff at the CF position if Erik was stupid enough to play Ronaldo till he found form. We backed Ronaldo lasts season only for his form to come when all was already lost.
 
Now we just need a strong statement from the clubs supporters group to ensure the club knows CR7 should not wear the shirt again, so they truly know how most united fans feel.

Have there been a statement by any well recognised supporters group yet on this?

Think that's been the clubs biggest problem actually. Trying hard to appease fans when hard actions need to be taken. The truth is, they should have actually pushed Ronaldo out this Summer. However, everyone was trying to be diplomatic despite the aggression on his own end being apparent. Yes, the media and some of the fans who are now not on his side, would have attacked the club for treating a "legend" like that, but it's what other top sides would have done. The club did everything right by Ronaldo and went far and beyond to ensure that he was treated well, like we do with every player considered somewhat legendary ( which hasn't worked in our favour lately).

For me, due to the fact that they know they're not liked and have never been liked, the Glazers can be a bit too passive in addressing issues. Under Woodward, we allowed countless managers to stink up the place far longer than they should have, we have players in the club currently who should have been let go 3 years ago, we have kept patience with so many players who haven't been meeting the clubs standards and we have tried really hard to promote some of the academy players that we have despite the fact that a lot of them are nowhere near the quality United should have. Everyone talks about the Glazers being evil entities that have been running the club into the ground due to their sheer lack of care, instead I actually think they've hurt the club by not actually being aggressive. They've been far too respectful and therefore a bit too subservient to the media, the fans and the players. Call them what you want, but Bayern and Real Madrid have hyper aggressive executives who are not afraid to be ruthless when they are attacked. City's constantly sweep stories from the press under the rug and hardly give a response. You had a whole summer where fans were consistently berating the club over transfers despite the fact we had a good window, while the club gave responses of trying, stating they understand etc. We shouldn't be that generous in terms of responses.
 
I'm not saying that he did, I'm saying there could be a case made for that because Ronaldo is always at the expense of the team since a few years into his Madrid time.

Of course there's a case for it, but just going by the facts and what i saw - none of the other attackers stepped up last season. Cavani had 2 goals last season.
 
No serious team will touch Ronaldo, even more now than in summer, and he will end up in a joke league either in US or in China.
I think he'll end up in MLS. He'll take a long break after the WC, MLS camps don't report until February right? He'll lap it up in Miami with the least annoying Neville brother.
 
We won two out of the opening 3 league games last year without Ronaldo so that tweet is bollocks for a start.

And we beat Aston Villa in the FA Cup in January without him.
 
Won’t start a new thread to ask this because I feel we don’t want too many Ronaldo threads…

But how do you personally feel about the Ronaldo saga?

Makes me sad because I was very excited when we re-signed him and he’s the most talented player I’ve ever seen play. And this taints his legacy which spans a very successful period at this club too. Obviously he does need to be released though
 
urm okay... is that the balance of losing then?


we played the first three games of the season without him and won two of those, so the statement in itself is wrong. But if we don't count those games, it's only 5 games without him ... two of which were thrashings by City and Liverpool, which would have happened with him as well. Then there was the final game against Palace, which was a dead rubber in every sense of the word. That leaves two draws against Villa and Leicester, which obviously weren't great results - but then again, it's not like we didn't have any of those with him in the team.
 
Not like he has constantly praised him, called him better than Messi and waxed lyrical about everything he’s done.
Exactly. Neville is as big a fanboy as any one. But he is also United through and through unlike the likes of Keane.
 
urm okay... is that the balance of losing then?


First of all that is bollocks. 2nd of all we finished 2nd the season before, signed Ronaldo, had our worst points tally in premier league history, he will leave in Jan and we'll finish top 4 again....
 
we played the first three games of the season without him and won two of those, so the statement in itself is wrong. But if we don't count those games, it's only 5 games without him ... two of which were thrashings by City and Liverpool, which would have happened with him as well. Then there was the final game against Palace, which was a dead rubber in every sense of the word. That leaves two draws against Villa and Leicester, which obviously weren't great results - but then again, it's not like we didn't have any of those with him in the team.
The tweet also conveniently forgets games that we were winning and then Ronaldo came on and we dropped points. Of the top of my head, Everton and Chelsea.
 
So why are people still peddling this myth that he was our saviour last season and we would've been in a relegation battle without him ?
Still crazy that some people haven't seen the correlation towards tailoring our style of play to his needs and our worst points total in the PL era just because he scored a bunch of goals in a handful of games :lol::wenger:

Low and behold we're so much more fluid and tougher to play against without him on the pitch
 
Ronaldo apologists will also gloss over the fact that we scored 73 goals in 20/21, then regressed to 57 in 21/22 after signing him. Yes, he scored quite a few of those, but the attack as a whole suffered greatly in comparison to the season before. We had to alter how we played to accommodate him, and I would argue that every single attacking player regressed as a result. Just pointing to Ronaldos goal tally doesn't paint the whole picture.
 
Because he wasn't a United player yet obviously.

Which means that United won games without him in the team, last season. If anything the fact that we won games when he wasn't even near the building and then struggled, isn't a good look.
 
Because people confuse being eloquent and articulate with intelligence. As a teen and a young 20-something, Rooney was not comfortable expressing himself, it was pretty obvious, and is probably an introverted person by nature who comes alive in his comfort zone (on the pitch), but when you looked beyond the form, it was quite evident he was a relatively bright person, who could be interesting in quite a few interviews.

I've not been particularly surprised at how well he's handled himself through this, or since he's moved into management.
Yes you're right, it was a mantra I never believed in.
 
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