Cristiano Ronaldo: Set to leave by mutual agreement

[scottser]

There's a lesson here for us all folks. It might be OK to be a bit of a dick when you're at the top of your game but when you start to lose it, all you have left is being a dick.
Poor Christy is all dick and no finish.

 

[Gazza]

Have to say, I prefer this type of honesty in an interview to the usual “it was a great team performance, we achieved our objectives and we move on to the next game”

honesty now

 

[always_hoping]

Who's the cheerleader now?

 

[city-puma]

I think we all know what he needs for Christmas this year. But I suspect he has mirrors on every wall in h his home ... the irony.

Quite possible!

 

[amolbhatia50k]

Have to say, I prefer this type of honesty in an interview to the usual “it was a great team performance, we achieved our objectives and we move on to the next game”

winning mentality

 

[MrEleson]

Perez's comments about him has never been so apt. Imagine being that thick, that deluded, that you burned your bridges with 2 of the most illustrious fan bases in the world, of clubs that made up the bulk of your claim to fame.

Tbf he still has his Madrid legacy in tact.

 

[FrantikChicken]

It’s insane how detached from reality Ronaldo is. The guy is 37 years old, has 1 goal in 10 league matches, and has now gone on to say he has no time or respect for any manager that benches or rotates him.

Where exactly does he expect to go from here? What self respecting club/manager with any sort of ambition is going to want him around?

 

[MUFC OK]

I'm glad Ronaldo has said something about the Glazers but if you cannot see he is doing it from his own selfish point of view then you are truly blind.

I just don’t see why that follows? How is it self serving to say what we’ve all been saying, but what no player has said, for years?

 

[quiet_united]

I am so glad that he did this interview. We are worse with him in the team however ETH feel obligated to include him in the squad and play him, the players feel obligated to pass the ball to him. Now that he has played his cards, ETH and the team can move on and focus on the next chapter.

 

[MUFC OK]

It’s insane how detached from reality Ronaldo is. The guy is 37 years old, has 1 goal in 10 league matches, and has now gone on to say he has no time or respect for any manager that benches or rotates him.

Where exactly does he expect to go from here? What self respecting club/manager with any sort of ambition is going to want him around?

None of our forwards are performing though. rashford 4 goals is not impressive, Antony 3 goals. No one else has more than 2 (all PL). We have a goal difference of zero. Yet Ronaldo should be banging them in despite starting only 4 games in the league? Context.

 

[MUFC OK]

It's called putting the club first - as it always should be. Rooney has the balls to do that when he comments. Besides he's an actual legend and not a 'legend' like Ronaldo.

Ronaldo is a legend of this club.

 

[The Mitcher]

Ronaldo is a legend of this club.

Not anymore.

 

[Irwin99]

I just don’t see why that follows? How is it self serving to say what we’ve all been saying, but what no player has said, for years?

Because he wants a way out but also to look like the good guy or in the injured party. He has always said that he loves the fan adulation United fans have given him, this is probably a way to soften the blow.

 

[BooloBiibshe]

I just hope there is some scenes where Ronaldo asks Morgan where the camera is, like R. Kelly Style and tells us all.

 

[Gazza]

None of our forwards are performing though. rashford 4 goals is not impressive, Antony 3 goals. No one else has more than 2 (all PL). We have a goal difference of zero. Yet Ronaldo should be banging them in despite starting only 4 games in the league? Context.

Shouldn't Ronaldo be doing, you know, better than them?

Rashford, Antony and Martial have all been good when they have played, against quality opposition, certainly a lot better and more productive than Ronaldo. Your disingenuousness is showing and we can all see it.

 

[InfiniteBoredom]

Tbf he still has his Madrid legacy in tact.

Madrid fans think him a prick. They appreciate the sporting achievements but will never hold him above Di Stefano or one of their own like Raul in sentiment.

 

[FrantikChicken]

None of our forwards are performing though. rashford 4 goals is not impressive, Antony 3 goals. No one else has more than 2 (all PL). We have a goal difference of zero. Yet Ronaldo should be banging them in despite starting only 4 games in the league? Context.

Sure mate here’s your context: rashford has been moved around 3 different positions to accommodate injuries to others

martial I’m not even sure if he has been fit to play more than 1full 90min game, yet has more goals than ronaldo

Antony has 3 in 6 matches.

Ronaldo has 10 games as the ST and has 1 goal to show for it.

The context is pretty evident

EDIT: Either way, this doesn’t discredit my initial point. Ronaldo has not done nearly enough to be demanding a starting spot every game, even amongst a squad of misfiring forwards as you put it. So what exactly does he expect to get out of this interview? A contract with a champions league competing club?

 

[Tyrion]

holy shit he really said that

I wonder who his friends are. I saw a quote from Benzema that the two don't really speak either. Who actually is close to him? Is it just the people that praise him and everyone else is kicked out? I guess SAF and Rio are probably there.

 

[NinjaZombie]

My captain.

There really isn't any need for Bruno to play nice. Ronaldo most likely will be gone in January, maybe next summer at worst, and the guy only has about a couple of years in the game so they won't even have to meet when Bruno represents Portugal.

 

[Greck]

Correct where I'm wrong, so Ronaldo on being told he wasn't going to start told the club he was ill and couldn't travel, we would then find out he went and did this. Then in the same interview laments the club not believing his excuses for skipping time. Like gee I wonder why. And people are still backing this. It's like watching cows jump off a cliff.

 

[hobbers]

Anyone softening because he mentions the Glazers is a total numpty.

Yeh if that was all the interview was about, great job what a brave United legend he would be.

Not a 5 second soundbite in a 90 minute rant against the club for treating him like a footballer should be, while earning £500k a week for the privilege.

 

[amolbhatia50k]

I just don’t see why that follows? How is it self serving to say what we’ve all been saying, but what no player has said, for years?

It's pretty obvious. Players don't speak ill about their football club and owners out of respect for the institution you're supposed to help fix and if needed these things tend to happen privately. Regardless, an employee doesn't do it given you know he's employed by the club.

Our issues have been highlighted by every credible journalist. Its why we haven't won the league in decade. Ironically also why we make the daft decision of signing an over the hill Ronaldo for monster wages, which is something that he took advantage of too when it suited him.

On to the current situation - he's a spent force who has been dropped with the team performing far better without him than with him. That's something he clearly can't deal with and is ready to burn bridges to save face and protect his image. That's why his mouth only opens on all these issues now - it serves his spin which is playing the victim card against bad / old / rusting / evil United.

None of our forwards are performing though. rashford 4 goals is not impressive, Antony 3 goals. No one else has more than 2 (all PL). We have a goal difference of zero. Yet Ronaldo should be banging them in despite starting only 4 games in the league? Context.

They're all performing better than him, unsurprisingly as is the collective without him.

 

[amolbhatia50k]

Ronaldo is a legend of this club.

No chance

 

[RedRonaldo]

This 'they kind of didn't believe me' sounds airy fairy, either they did or they didn't. Very hard to fathom it was the latter. Hope he isn't using his daughter's sickness as some kind of weapon or excuse, that would be sick.

It could also be a case of they believing him on paper and let him took leave, but at the same they raised their voice out in doubtful tone in private meetings. We never know.

I still remember the time when I tried to ask for permission to WFH at work for a week during worst time of COVID (as some of my older family member hasn’t been vaccinated yet and I didn’t want to take any risk going to work), my boss did believe me on paper but at same time he also voiced out in doubtful tone to me and asked me not to abuse the system, as I haven’t picked up one of his call last time when I did WFH. This gives me impression that that deep down he wasnt 100% believing in me, and this pissed me off for a while.

 

[tenpoless]

My captain.

Ronaldo : "Shake my hand to get a permission to this locker"
Bruno : "Ok. But you don't seem to have anything in your locker anymore. Legend my arse" *walks away* "old twat"

 

[Gazza]

It could also be a case of they believing him on paper and let him took leave, but at the same they raised their voice out in doubtful tone in private meetings. We never know.

I still remember the time when I tried to ask for permission to WFH at work for a week during worst time of COVID (as some of my older family member hasn’t been vaccinated yet and I didn’t want to take any risk going to work), my boss did believe me on paper but at same time he also voiced out in doubtful tone to me and asked me not to abuse the system, as I haven’t picked up one of his call last time when I did WFH. This gives me impression that that deep down he wasnt 100% believing in me, and this pissed me off for a while.

This is becoming my favorite thread on the caf. Please keep posting in it.

 

[sglowrider]

Nah, there is a large contingent of fans who were done with him after the first time he left us, and there are those who were hurt but clung still to the notion that he cared about the club but Madrid's pull was irresistible. He's done his best to shatter that illusion, bar a small minority who were so anti Glazer that they'd eat up his PR, I doubt fans, whether matchgoing or overseas, would have any time left for him.

Perez's comments about him has never been so apt. Imagine being that thick, that deluded, that you burned your bridges with 2 of the most illustrious fan bases in the world, of clubs that made up the bulk of your claim to fame.

Let's see if his social media platforms suffer by a massive increase in unfollowing

 

[Greck]

Anyone softening because he mentions the Glazers is a total numpty.

Yeh if that was all the interview was about, great job what a brave United legend he would be.

Not a 5 second soundbite in a 90 minute rant against the club for treating him like a footballer should be, while earning £500k a week for the privilege.

One would need to legit have calluses on their brain. Regarding the other accusation how would he even have deduced with any degree of certainty that the person he spoke to over the phone didn't believe his reason for absence? How does one even feel comfortable tabling an accusation like that on such a platform? This is just scraping for ammunition. As low as it gets.

 

[sglowrider]

My captain.

For all the mistakes or forced plays he makes, you can never doubt Bruno's loyalties and heart

 

[RedSky]

If he really wanted to leave in the Summer he'd have taken a pay cut to ensure he could move. He wants to move and retain his insanely high wage the greedy feck.

Anyone feeling sorry for this manchild needs a wake up call. The lad is simply saying what he thinks needs to be said to force a move. Attack the owners, attack the Manager and attack his own teammates. The guys a self obsessed cretin.

 

[Acquire Me]

Sure mate here’s your context: rashford has been moved around 3 different positions to accommodate injuries to others

martial I’m not even sure if he has been fit to play more than 1full 90min game, yet has more goals than ronaldo

Antony has 3 in 6 matches.

Ronaldo has 10 games as the ST and has 1 goal to show for it.

The context is pretty evident

EDIT: Either way, this doesn’t discredit my initial point. Ronaldo has not done nearly enough to be demanding a starting spot every game, even amongst a squad of misfiring forwards as you put it. So what exactly does he expect to get out of this interview? A contract with a champions league competing club?

Justify his poor season? I am beginning to think that he does all of this to save himself from the poor form or maybe decline. The age have caught up on him and he will obviously not accept it.

 

[InfiniteBoredom]

This is becoming my favorite thread on the caf. Please keep posting in it.

Person you replied to once said had his guy moved to City, he’d cheer every goal he scores, including against us.

Let's see if his social media platforms suffer by a massive increase in unfollowing

The majority of Utd fans who watched and idolized him during his first stint here are 30 and above, I doubt unfollowing him on SNS is their go to way of protest.

Messi will undoubtedly see a few percentage rise in H2H polls though, judging by the Caf’s reaction.

 

[tjb]

These headlines about the club not believing Ronaldo about his poorly daughter with no context given and without any timeline of events is out of order. But that sensationalist headline is all people see and it’s incredibly unfair on our club. For a start, bringing up his daughter is fecking low.

This is what we consistently have to deal with. We get scrutinized more than anyone else due to our size and unfortunatly to some fans, anything the club does is wrong. I don't think

Correct where I'm wrong, so Ronaldo on being told he wasn't going to start told the club he was ill and couldn't travel, we would then find out he went and did this. Then in the same interview laments the club not believing his excuses for skipping time. Like gee I wonder why. And people are still backing this. It's like watching cows jump off a cliff.

There are people who are United fans, people that are Ronaldo fans, then the third group that love to lap at any negative media the club gets because it justifies whatever notions they have despite not really having a clear picture.

 

[RedCurry]

For all the mistakes or forced plays he makes, you can never doubt Bruno's loyalties and heart

Bruno was our uncontested best player before the Ronaldo showed up. His game is based on high risk passing but it looks a lot worse when we have a geriatric playing in front of him.

 

[In Rainbows]

None of our forwards are performing though. rashford 4 goals is not impressive, Antony 3 goals. No one else has more than 2 (all PL). We have a goal difference of zero. Yet Ronaldo should be banging them in despite starting only 4 games in the league? Context.

Ronaldo doesn't press or offer pace in most counter attacking situations.

Then we look at the statistics in all competitions

Martial: 4 goals + 2 assists in 7 appearances (292 minutes)
Rashford: 8 goals + 3 assists in 19 appearances (1423 minutes)
Sancho: 3 goals + 1 assist in 14 appearances (907 minutes)
Antony: 3 goals + 0 assists in 11 appearances (833 minutes)
Garnacho: 2 goals + 2 assists in 8 appearances (292 minutes)

Ronaldo: 3 goals + 2 assists in 16 appearances (1051 minutes)

Why has Ronaldo deserved more minutes when looking at this and knowing he offers nothing outside of this? He also has the benefit of playing as a striker over Sancho, Antony, and Garnacho because he doesn't have much of any defensive duties apart from set piece defending. And that's with them force feeding him and him having a penalty to add to his goal tally.

 

[hobbers]

Listening to Rio vs Carragher, it is painful how dim witted Rio is. How has he got any audience at all, Michael Owen has more insight.

 

[amolbhatia50k]

Ronaldo doesn't press or offer pace in most counter attacking situations.

Then we look at the statistics in all competitions

Martial: 4 goals + 2 assists in 7 appearances (292 minutes)
Rashford: 8 goals + 3 assists in 19 appearances (1423 minutes)
Sancho: 3 goals + 1 assist in 14 appearances (907 minutes)
Antony: 3 goals + 0 assists in 11 appearances (833 minutes)
Garnacho: 2 goals + 2 assists in 8 appearances (292 minutes)

Ronaldo: 3 goals + 2 assists in 16 appearances (1051 minutes)

Why has Ronaldo deserved more minutes when looking at this and knowing he offers nothing outside of this? He also has the benefit of playing as a striker over Sancho, Antony, and Garnacho because he doesn't have much of any defensive duties apart from set piece defending. And that's with them force feeding him and him having a penalty to add to his goal tally.

Nice try but mere statistics reflecting the on pitch productivity of footballers is not the most sound proof metric of judging footballers. Sure, there's a lot that goals, assists, distance covered, minutes played, key passes, pass accuracy and xGFJK can tell you, but there's other scientifically more relevant parameters one must consider to arrive at a rational and error free conclusion such as who do I like the mostest.

 

[That_Bloke]

Nothing new to add, but I just have to express how pathetic I feel this man is. He’s done it all, has all the money he could ever need, and is still a miserable prick. None of it has made him happy or fulfilled.

Maybe those botox injections from last summer will.

 

[Member 58925]

None of our forwards are performing though. rashford 4 goals is not impressive, Antony 3 goals. No one else has more than 2 (all PL). We have a goal difference of zero. Yet Ronaldo should be banging them in despite starting only 4 games in the league? Context.

The context that has somehow escaped you is his horrendous overall play unless you’re watching different matches.

 

[sepulturite]

This is very sad to see some the comments here slating Ronaldo. People have short memories and forget everything he did for this club. He became the best player in the world while he was with us which we have never seen happen with any prem team. Without him we most likely would of never had the success we did back in 2007-2009.

He is frustrated , sure he not the player he once was, he has very high standards and he must be very disappointed to see the club ran in the state It is.

He loves United and he is exposing the glazers, the lack of investment , the lack of sporting project. We needed somebody to do this and expose the glazers for who they are.

This doesn’t look like it going end well but hopefully he does expose the people running our club and we get closer to them selling which we all want.

Whatever happens don’t let this taint your feelings towards Ronaldo.