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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Its telling that he chose two of our brightest moments this season to put the spotlight on him, for wrong reasons. It must have hurt his ego that our best performances have come without him in the team and he cannot digest the fact.

It’s also wild that even Ronaldo has done next to fecking nothing for this club this season, it feels like he has to be the centre of attention all the time. We can’t go a week without the discussions needing to be about Cristiano. Hopefully this is the beginning of the end now.
 
We might just have the best teenager in the World in our hands, after recently producing a World class teenager in Greenwood. What other club can currently claim that?

“So below standard” my arse. The club also started major renovations to the training ground last summer (2021).

Garnacho?
 
I doubt it as they see him as their god and savior. Most of them would probably blame the manager or the team tbh, actually some may even blame United
I disagree, there's already been stuff in the media by their journo's calling for Ronaldo to be dropped and the manager sacked.
 
Jesus hun wake up.

If he goes to Portugal and scores 25-30 goals in that league then how does that mean he’s “DONE.
First of all don't hun me.
Secondly --- IF IF IF he goes to Portugal and scores 25-30 goals????
He won't score 25-30 goals in a Sunday League now.
 
Yes and one has been at the tip top level of the sport for 18 years with not even a blemish on his character or with any proof that he would flat out lie while the other has been around for 5 years.

I wonder whose resume on self righteousness or truth holds more value
There are certain leaked messages with his lawyer that begs to differ
 
I could be wrong but I feel part of his form this season is due to the fact that he hates where he is at and does not want to be their. I feel as though he has half way quit and he can’t wait to go to another club and be genuinely happy.
He wouldn't be the first player who rediscovers his form and has a second (or in this case third or fourth) spring after moving, but at his age this becomes more and more questionable
 
So Mitten said today Ronaldo thought he was off to Chelsea, apparently he told people at Carrington he was only in for a week then he was joining Chelsea.
 
He done as a player for a competitive league. Its ridiculously obvious to anyone who isn't biased. Even huge ronaldo fans on this site can see he's been absolutely cooked as a player.
Exactly!
 
He’s talking about when he arrived back at the club. There was an article saying he personally requested the pool be retiled or something to that effect.

The fact we are where we are as a club indicates standards have fallen. From what I’ve seen - decision making, transfer dealings, contract renewals, lack of improvement to the stadium etc, even failing to have a data science department or DoF until recently are enough to form the opinion that we have been run like a shit-show.

Imo the reason he’s saying this now is he doesn’t care anymore or is actively trying to burn his bridges as others have said.

Im not defending Ronaldo but I’m keen for the criticism of him doesn’t turn into defending all the club is doing/not doing when we have been saying the above for years and the evidence would suggest there is truth in those aspects. Don’t forget how good the owners and brains at the club are at controlling the narrative in the media.

I thinking you’re preaching to the converted and getting confused.
But we were clearly making much more monumentally stupid decisions both on and off the pitch with Woodward at the helm and with Fergie’s huge influence in decisions like Moyes and Solksjaer/Phelan (and dare I say it, Ronaldo).

The club since those protests seems to at least have gotten a kick up the arse, bringing in a young top manager, spending big on hungry players like Martinez and Antony, bringing in a women’s section, improving Carrington and the OT dressing rooms, and with planning permission in for huge Carrington updates.

Now time will tell if Arnold and Murtough do a much better job, but I’m certainly willing to give them a chance and don’t believe for a single second that Ronaldo gives a monkies feck about a lot of these things, he’s just being a self serving arsehole hoping to get naive fans on side with these criticisms, even if valid.
 
I mean, this time last year Messi joined a new club, started injured and struggled, yes, but only a few months before that he won the Copa America with 4 goals, 5 assists in 7 games, having been named MOTM in almost every one of them. That's without mentioning that his half-season with Barcelona was so good that they almost crawled back a big points haul to win the league. You don't go from that last year to finished in the space of a few months.


He also went through COVID in that period of tine. New city, new league, new teamates...these people are not machines after all.
 
I just don't get what his end game is here? He was the one who wanted to leave and he picks and chooses when he wants to play so I don't get where the disrespect from United and ten Hag has come from. It was the media saying he wasn't good enough for United not ten Hag. And it's not as if he hasn't been given game time.
 
I could be wrong but I feel part of his form this season is due to the fact that he hates where he is at and does not want to be their. I feel as though he has half way quit and he can’t wait to go to another club and be genuinely happy.

It could be true. While he has declined I don't think that he is shot physically, the main issue for United is that he is a bad fit from a tactical and mentality standpoint, United don't need a player that exclusively wants to act as a poacher.
 
Why cant you respond to the many post pointing out the many blemishes he actually has had on his character the last 18 years? You have responded to many other posts, but skipped the ones on this.
Because I’m getting 8 replies at a time and haven’t replied too many.

I skimmed over though your talking about the “rape allegations” the ones that came out 10+ years after to try and get a check out of a global star? The same that has happened to Neymar Kobe , Derrick rose, LeBron and many other stars?

It’s almost as if males are not falsely accused on a consistent basis.

I wonder why guys like Greenwood, Mendy and Ben Arfa were convicted, maybe because their was actual proof? Or is someone considered guilty uniting proven other wise? That’s the opposite of how law is supposed to work .
 
To start with Porto and Benfica players would eat him for breakfast!
There's no way the current Ronaldo will score 25-30 goals in the Portuguese league. Maybe he is downing tools and not playing to the best of his ability but I watch the Portuguese league and keep up to date with Portuguese football, it's not a joke and he'll struggle there if he plays the same as he does here.
 
I know you're a good guy and understandably like Ronaldo. Last season I think you would've been totally right, he would've smashed it in Portugal. But have you seen many of his matches this season? He looks physically shot and his finishing is also way below what it once was. It's more than questionable how much he'd contribute in Portugal by now, at least in my opinion
I don't think it is that cut and dry. He clearly dislikes being here and under ETH. So he may find some good form if he goes to Portugal.
Again, personally I believed that the goals will eventually come at United this season as well, at least some of them (not 15-20 goal season), but that bridge has been burnt now.
 
I wonder how disruptive this will be for Dalot and Fernandes. Maybe they're sharing the same views with Ronaldo about Ten Hag.
That would be unfortunate.
Dalot is playing the best football of his career under ETH, can't see that being an issue. Bruno seems to have some kind of Stockholm syndrome, though
 
First of all don't hun me.
Secondly --- IF IF IF he goes to Portugal and scores 25-30 goals????
He won't score 25-30 goals in a Sunday League now.
If you believe he won’t score 30 goals in a Sunday league (which you don’t but you don’t, you just want to get a rise because you look silly atm) then your knowledge of football is very poor and this is a pointless debate.
 
This whole thing is him forcing the team's hand. He wants out and the team is better without him. So I am done with him, cut him for all I care.
 
If you believe he won’t score 30 goals in a Sunday league (which you don’t but you don’t, you just want to get a rise because you look silly atm) then your knowledge of football is very poor and this is a pointless debate.
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Yes because it shows how dogshite the Portugese league would be.
Yes it’s so dog shit that one of your best players came from their. Oh and the many others who are stars in every major team in the world.
 
I wonder how disruptive this will be for Dalot and Fernandes. Maybe they're sharing the same views with Ronaldo about Ten Hag.
That would be unfortunate.

Not a chance in hell Dalot shares those views man :lol:
For the first time he’s a guaranteed starter at a top club, his roll is being developed and he’s becoming a very important part of the way ETH wants to play.

Unless he enjoyed watching AWB and some shite at Milan starting ahead of him.
 
It could be true. While he has declined I don't think that he is shot physically, the main issue for United is that he is a bad fit from a tactical and mentality standpoint, United don't need a player that exclusively wants to act as a poacher.
I agree
 
I just don't get what his end game is here? He was the one who wanted to leave and he picks and chooses when he wants to play so I don't get where the disrespect from United and ten Hag has come from. It was the media saying he wasn't good enough for United not ten Hag. And it's not as if he hasn't been given game time.
Contract termination/ability to freely talk to CL clubs and add to his goalscoring record in that competition post-WC.
 
I know he's your legend and all but you don't have to be a dick about United as a result.

Look I'm not trying to be a dick, as everyone knows the club hasn't been doing so well and I know it's a United forum so it's difficult for people to be as objetive as they can. I don't even agree entirely with that Ronaldo said, nor I think what he's doing is the most professional behavior. For me it appears he's trying to force a move by putting a club in a difficult position.

He used to behave like that at Real Madrid whenever he wanted a pay raise or something, he would start whinning, acted annoyed, etc. Zidane would tell Florentino to deal with him and eventually the club drew a line. I don't know what he has been promised or what exactly his deal is but I do believe United need to deal swiftly with this and either get him in line or get rid of him.

With that being said I've also noticed people were hating on him since last season and have repeated constantly how United was 2nd place and he disrupted everything good with the team. To me that's a blatant lie and a clear agenda on him, although I have to say it's clear the team is trying to play a more modern styl now with ETH and there is a tangible improvement and direction now with or without Ronaldo.
 
Any footballer giving interviews to the Sun needs to have a look at themselves. It’s a rag and always has been.
 
It's so interesting that for certain Ronaldo fans (like you, SportingCP96!), it's not enough to just support them as players and worship their abilities on the pitch. They have to line up to bat for him every time he does something off the pitch, as if he must also be a man of impeccable virtue with no moral failings whatsoever. It is true idolization. You often see Ronaldo fans constructing scenarios that would absolve him of any blame or wrongdoing whatsoever, even with a paucity of information as we have here. It's essentially the same as what happens with people like Trump or Jordan Peterson; it really doesn't matter what they do, their acolytes will willingly manufacture a narrative that protects them at all costs.
 
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