Wow. Lot of mystic megs around this Saturday
Cristiano Ronaldo: Set to leave by mutual agreement
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Feck him. He backed Ronaldo's decision to do the interview, so he deserves every negative aspect of taking him to Qatar.
The sort of extra noise every manager wants when going into a World Cup.
I was one of those that always used to mock the idea that he was "the problem" and his return and his goals was probably the only exciting thing about last season, but those threads topics have ultimately proved to be true.
I still maintain that other players are just as culpable for last season though.
How could they expect a 36/37 year old to act like an adult right?
So because your hero has the biggest support on SM United should give in to him?
Welcome back!
Is it net? ffs
It's been reduced though due to no CL football which has nothing to do with him wanting to leave at all at all.
Agree.
Ronaldo is a twat and must go, but it doesn’t matter what reason there is behind him calling out the owners, that he did it is welcome.
No worries
He wasn't the only problem obviously but his presence just didn't allow for any flexibility for either Ole or Rangnick, especially in games where it was clear he has to be subbed. He spent 3 months last season only scoring a couple of goals after Rangnick came on and I think he was only subbed once.
His goals were fun, especially in the CL group stage and the ones against Spurs.
The goals were good. The inability/refusal to do any work off the ball was disastrous.
It has been reported everywhere that it‘s gross.
According to @Hansi Fick it’s net, and the Caf and the UK media love Ronaldo so much that we are together conspiring to establish the fiction that it’s gross
I don't think Ronaldo's main disruption to the team comes from lack of defensive work. Martial and greenwood were never great at it, only cavani was.
I think a bigger issue is that he plays as the 9, requires and demands constant service, but then does weird things (drop back to touch the ball for no reason and slow down play) and selfish things (shoot from everywhere, make intentionally bad runs and passes so that he and nobody else gets the goal). Plus, regardless of the manager, all players follow his instructions and pass to him constantly. I think that's more disruptive than a lack of pressing which was never the team's strength anyway.
I think a bigger issue is that he plays as the 9, requires and demands constant service, but then does weird things (drop back to touch the ball for no reason and slow down play) and selfish things (shoot from everywhere, make intentionally bad runs and passes so that he and nobody else gets the goal). Plus, regardless of the manager, all players follow his instructions and pass to him constantly. I think that's more disruptive than a lack of pressing which was never the team's strength anyway.
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I'm bemused at the revisionism of Rooney's last years at the club. I remember Van Persie scoring a goal at Swansea, early in Moyes' tenure, before Moyes completely ruined the winning team he'd inherited where the team were all celebrating with RVP while Rooney was sulking alone with his head down away from his team mates. Then Moyes and whoever the hell was in charge of transfers at the time, in a "brilliant" move, convinced Rooney to stay, tying him up to a long term contract which culminated in stinkers like he had against Watford.
Wasn't a big fan of Rooney after the 2010 contract debacle but I'll say this: Guy's more of a United legend than Ronaldo. 3:14 in the video below is one of my favourite Rooney moments.
As can be seen, my feelings with regards to Rooney is kind of complicated. But there's no complication with Ronaldo after that interview. Slagging the manager and the club in an interview with Piers Morgan of all people, unable to be accountable for his poor performances and indiscipline. How low can you go? Ronaldo's a cnut.
I was not talking about his ranking. I question his "legend" status. Regarding results he was key player 3 seasons and helped us to win trophies. Fair enough. Regarding behaviour he shat on this club twice and cried and moaned about leaving twice. IF that is enough for you to call a player as a club legend then club legends are also ; Pete, Ed, Dave, Neville, o'Shea, Vida, Rio, Brown, Pallister, Bruce, Evra, Fletch, Carrick, Park, Nani, Parker, Hughes etc etc.....basically every player who was here few seasons and won something.
You're choosing to completely ignore the club's incompetence in all this.
To be fair there’s no way in hell Murtough & ETH would brought him back.
It's funny how dumb Ronaldo was in doing this now, as it's going to be such a distraction for Portugal. Any bad result or performance will point to the interview. He'll get blamed for any elimination. Just so misguided.
I really hope that team crashes and burns (sorry Bruno and Diogo). Ronaldo doesn't deserve to be coming out of this smelling of roses.
The fact that United is poorly run is well documented but the fact. That Ronaldo has the mental age of a hormonal teenager is totally on him.
Did I want him here no. My one saving grace was that we stopped him going to city but even that doesn't cut it now.
Could we have sold him in the summer. If we believe his word, he, turned down every offer made for him in the summer not the club.
was waiting for this to start popping up.No doubt they'll be highly annoyed with the media circus he's brought with him to the WC.
The narcissistic prick must be loving it though since he's now the focus of everyone's attention.
Good, hopefully will piss off his team mates so much they will resent him. Me me me.
"Win this thing on the internet" good grief some people really do live in their own dimension.
BTW have you ever considered that you, RedRonaldo, probably follow a lot of social media accounts which are very, I don't know, favorable towards Ronaldo? That might influence the type of content you're seeing.
City sources have denied that any deal with him was close. Mendes 100% played this club like a fiddle based on it's self-imposed servitude to nostalgia and romanticism over logical reasoning. There's no way I believe Pep wanted an egotistical, immobile aging player - it goes completely against his football. Finally City is starting to deny it.
From a United perspective, it did look for a bit at the time that the club was starting to learn (getting Sancho and Varane done that summer), but the Ronaldo purchase and then the reasoning behind it was a pointer that they were more incompetent than us fans ever thought.
How on earth does a serious club buy an aging player that they never planned for and definitely didn't need (we'd just bent over backwards to convince Cavani to stay) simply because it would be an embarrassment if he went to their rivals?!
That was incredibly stupid.It grates that even pundits I consider sensible casually go "they couldn't have let him go to City" as sound logic
Forgot to mention his wages while doing this...
I think you get the wrong idea from my post.
I see the City/Spurs comparison a lot, but it's a very different situation. In the City game, United were in a lost and embarrassing situation. Putting Ronaldo on makes him part of the embarrassment for no practical in-game purpose at all.
Spurs is completely different. United are winning and need to see out the game. There's not that much you can contribute in the final minutes, but at least you're being asked to provide a positive contribution to a good situation.
So I can understand why Ten Hag felt he had to spare Ronaldo the embarrassment of the City game and didn't see an issue with bringing him on at the end of the Spurs game. It's not the same context at all.
In what way?
If Portugal fails to get out of their group (entirely possible with Uruguay, Ghana & South Korea in there), I wonder if the Portuguese fans will put a lot of the blame on Ronaldo for this distraction. If so, he would have damaged his legacies with both Utd and Portugal in one fell swoop.
Ronaldo was ill before their last match, with his record you have to wonder if he wasn’t starting.
I doubt it,the man’s adored.
Question for posters from Portugal; how your fans and media look at this? Surely they can't be happy how he brought all this circus days before WC?
I mean, i know he is your hero but NT comes first. I hope...
I mean, i know he is your hero but NT comes first. I hope...
Given A Bola had the headline “Less Cristiano More Portugal” after his last horror show, sorry, game, for them this clearly isn’t the case at this stage.
Yeah the club aren't going to be deterred from doing the right thing just because Piers Morgan and a bunch of 12 year olds might not like it.
Far too many features for his liking, so he went behind the label's back and re-recorded everyone's vocals.
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