Maybe I'm at the point of being so jaded with this club and its players that I don't even feel anything when a bombshell like this drops.
Just want it to end so we can move on to hopefully bigger and better.
Cristiano Ronaldo: Set to leave by mutual agreement
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Maybe I'm at the point of being so jaded with this club and its players that I don't even feel anything when a bombshell like this drops.
Just want it to end so we can move on to hopefully bigger and better.
It’s not really a tough one at all. By hook or crook, Ronaldo won’t be at Utd beyond January.
I agree with most of this and I'd add that he has not been playing well and therefore can't expect to be an automatic choice. But I'd still say (certainly up until the interview) some of the spite and outright hatred here has been way over the top. I don't know what was promised to him but I do think if he'd played in his old position (out wide or just behind a forward) and we had a top top goal scorer, things would have been very different. I think he did well enough last season and was way better than many others but in the end it hasn't been a good move for him, the club or, with some exceptions, the fans
Can someone do the "United betrayed me". "Never has do" meme.
Just google the Old articles he did slating Ronaldo before he got his first Interview
This isn’t quite true. Ronaldo wants us to pay him off. We’re willing to let him go. There’s a 10 million difference in those positions. If we can terminate his contract for cause - which appears to be what we’re looking into - that’s a win for the club as we save 10m quid.
Greame Souness stands with Ronaldo.
Maybe we’re all wrong and Ronaldo, Morgan and Souness are all right, the only possible quibble being the timing of the release of the interview.
Maybe we’re all wrong and Ronaldo, Morgan and Souness are all right, the only possible quibble being the timing of the release of the interview.
United should charge Ronaldo and just donate the money to whatever charity Messi is running.
Morgan's a far bigger tosser and man baby than Ronaldo that's for sure
Actually being able to sack him for breach of contract is a win win for the club. But I'm not sure if doing this interview is breach of contract.
Yes but Ben Foster isn't the same as Ronaldo
Or just transfer the money to Messi's wages to troll him.
Ronaldo’s behaviour has been petulant for some months now, the kid’s phone incident at Everton, rolling his eyes and tea potting during games, walking off and going home. This is the behaviour of a spoiled kid not a legend. He has now given this interview to the hateful Piers Morgan probably without the club’s permission which may be a sackable offence. We know this board is useless, but they need to act before tomorrow and sack him for breach of contract. He’s having an early mid-life crisis, can’t handle the fact that he isn’t the player he was and young kids are getting the headlines. The Ego should leave the building.
Maybe Ronnie can head off to Celtic too. Be a decent spot to stat-pad.
I'd rather spend a week with Ronaldo than five minutes with Joel Bloody Glazer.... and could probably say the same thing about Murtough
Far bigger? At that level of supremacy it's hard to rank them.
well, I've been in a room with Morgan...
Would have loved to see how Jose would've handled this.
I hate the man, but it would've been an absolute shitshow over the world cup break with Ronaldo and Mourinho slinging shit at each other on every avialable interview.
I hate the man, but it would've been an absolute shitshow over the world cup break with Ronaldo and Mourinho slinging shit at each other on every avialable interview.
Up till today, the first thing Rio comes out and says is to defend Ronaldo.
I paraphrase:
"Special players like Ronaldo have to be treated differently"
Blame firmly placed with the manager and club.
Piers is milking this. Releasing quotes every 6 hours, appearing on talk shows, doing radio interviews, releasing snippets and teasers until Wednesday.
You'd think he just released an album.
I'd honestly pay for an early access version of that interview, such is my anticipation of whatever 'bombshell' he dropped.
Nah if that's the strategy he wouldn't have done this or should I say his advisers wouldn't let him. It makes no sense.
He's got his world cup prep games now he wants out. He'll retire or end up in the MLS.
Wouldn’t get in the team. Have you seen how much Giakoumakis and Kyogo press?
Ronaldo wanted to be paid off, United didn't want to pay him to leave. Now we'll be able to sack him without paying him off
But he's so professional! Elite mentality! Was always going to be the next Cantona for our kids.
I know he wants out. He also wants us to pay him. That was what he demanded with Mendes when returned from pre-season.
I certainly wouldn’t. He’s picked a sycophant for a reason. I won’t even bother watching.
If Ronaldo just wanted out and this is a ploy to achieve that, he could always agree to mutually terminate his contract
Once we terminate his contract, I won't be surprised that he signed with the blue. Maybe he would take 20-30% what he is earning and beg Pep to sign him so he can become 2nd or 3rd choice forward so he can win another champion league and EPL. He can enjoy their technology and tub while screwing Utd.
No one knows that one way or another. Better to judge off events we're witnessing than tabloid gossip.
If he just wanted a pay off he'd have done something less likely to cause legal issues.
MLS 100% if he can't find a CL club. He can still pad his total goals record.
And to think there were fans that donated from their own pockets to bring him back... even though it was a scam.
9 years later, he's returned and is a much bigger bellend. Unbelievable.
9 years later, he's returned and is a much bigger bellend. Unbelievable.
Pep would never have him now no matter what.
Yeah you will - we all will!
Piers is a complete idiot but I'm happy he's done this. He's got rid of the player we were struggling to for us. Ironically he's made ETHs job a lot easier and our prospects of finishing top 4 now look even better.
I can only imagine how relieved our dressing room will be after the world cup knowing that the cry baby isn't here anymore and they don't have to deal with his malarkey anymore, onwards and upwards.
Piers has done us a massive favour here.
I can only imagine how relieved our dressing room will be after the world cup knowing that the cry baby isn't here anymore and they don't have to deal with his malarkey anymore, onwards and upwards.
Piers has done us a massive favour here.
Saying that you don't respect your boss, and that your business is very poorly ran is probably not enough to get you (legally) fired, is it?
This interview may have been carefully calibrated to fall just short of a sackable offence but still makes it impossible to play for the club again. Which would mean a pay off.
There's no world where it was all just spontaneous.
This has to go in a list of worst ways to end your career. Below Maradona's cocaine incident but above Zidane's header to Materazzi.
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