Ronaldo Watch

SirAF

Yup, I think that if he perform in the Euros he will be nailed on for the Ballon d'Or. If he doesn't he should still be in with a good shout with the La Liga title + possibly the Pichichi.

Orton

Portugal will do well to get out of their group in the euros. Ronaldo isn't exactly renowned for his performances for his country either..

Cheesy

If he does do well in the Euros, that could help him seal it, but I don't see him having a particularly great tournament for his standards if I'm being honest.

Portugal will struggle to progress beyond their group, while we have seen Ronaldo become frustrated and isolated when things don't go to plan with his country.

#07

Massively missing Cristiano today. No way we lose last night if we still had Ronaldo. What a massive player he was for us. Nobody in that class anywhere on the market. Even in his last season when he was sulking for Madrid he dragged us out of 'it' so many times. Damn those were the days...

Pogue Mahone

Yeah, we never lost any big games with him in the side.

Oh wait. We did. Lots of them.

Football can be so confusing...

Orton

If Ronaldo played last night for us, chances are Rooney would be out left and we would still struggle. Champions league final in 2009 anyone? If your front man is isolated with little to no support whenever he actually gets the ball, then chances are it's going to be a long frustrating night.

Brwned

Not only is the idea about crying over an ex-player after losing a game a little pathetic, IMO, you're also not making an sense. In Ronaldo's last season we lost home and away against Liverpool and away against Arsenal...that's the same number of losses we've had overall in the big games this year, but losing 4-1 against Liverpool was very possibly even worse than the 6-1 v City. In fact, 3 losses in big domestic games is pretty much standard for us:

09/10:
Chelsea x 2 (+ CS loss)
Liverpool

08/09:
Liverpool x 2
Arsenal

07/08:
Chelsea x 1
City x 2

06/07:
Arsenal x 2
Chelsea (FA Cup Final)

05/06:
Chelsea
Liverpool
City

04/05:
Chelsea x 2
Arsenal (FA Cup final, pens)

03/04:
Chelsea
City (4-1)
Liverpool

So, yeah, it's happened every year he's been here. This year we're better off than most years in terms of how we've performed in the big domestic games.

Snake Plissken

What would Ronaldo have done to change the game? Bearing in mind Utd hardly created a chance.

Snow

Are you seriously asking what Ronaldo could have done had he been there instead of Park or Giggs going up against Zabaleta? Can't you answer that for yourself?

Cina

I'm telling you lads, O'Shea would've won that match for us last night, can't believe we feckin' sold him.

kouroux

A Porto style cracker from long range

Cheesy

He left in 2009. I think it's time to stop saying we would've won games with him. What next? We would've won with Cantona last night?

RyanGoggs

This is the thing, Ronaldo would have at least let fly from distance a few times and test hart out (who looked dodgy by his standards). If FIFA has taught me anythins it that "you can't win a raffle if you don't buy a ticket"

Ole's_toe_poke

I wish Bobby Charlton hadn't retired. He could've won us the game last night.

Some of you are ridiculous. He's gone.

jojojo

Bobby Charlton was in Madrid this week, meeting Di Stefano and arranging an old boys charity match Real Madrid Vs United. Of course they asked about Ronaldo.

Do you miss Cristiano in Manchester?

We have very good players in the team. Cristiano made his mark and now others make theirs.

44 goals in 36 games - where can he go now?

His ceiling? I've asked myself that. He's become a player insatiable in front of goal. A phenomenon. He lives for goals and each game and each season he wants more. Except when he took that penalty against Athletic - what a bad shot!

Messi or Ronaldo?

I don't know, but I like watching them play. Messi is a splendid player, but for me, he's not better than Cristiano.

Is this his best moment?

No, that was in Manchester... (laughs).

Please explain

Here - his success wasn't immediate - people booed him at times. Right? At Old Trafford they never whistled him.

Relevated

why are you answering your own questions?

jojojo

Why are you bothering posting?

NM

That is clearly an interview with Sir Bobby. What's wrong with you?

FranklyVulgar

If Higuain took all of Ronaldos penalties and scored them, he'd be Madrids top scorer in la liga...

Vato1979

Ronaldo is clearly incapable of scoring good goals, all of them are tap ins or penalties. I wish he'd contribute more to the attacking play of Madrid aswell, a poor man's Heskey.

Sack Jose, sell Ronnie.

Hellboy

kouroux

wtf

Oldham

Just sign the fucker....

McLovin

Relevated

Oh sorry I didn't realise, it was just the way it was posted. My bad

reddevilcanada

Ifs, Buts, etc...

If Ronaldo hadn't scored that winner in Nou Camp, Madrid wouldn't have won the league....

If Messi hadn't missed the penalty against Chelsea, Barca would be in the finals instead of Chelsea.

If Messi didn't take the penalties for Barca, he'd have fewer goals.

If we won at City, we would be champions this season for sure.

If we hadn't gone out of the group stages, we could've made it to the final of the champions league.

If....

VeevaVee

Classic

Pexbo

Why are you answering your own questions?

Snow

By one goal yes and he'd also be the worlds best penalty taker which he obviously isn't. He had at least 4 players ahead of him in the shootout. So what's your point?

Pogue Mahone

If you take away pens, has Higuain really scored more goals than Ronaldo?

Interesting, if so. Especially considering he was out of the team for a while, wasn't he?

IhabX7

jojojo

Somebody sent me this one. The background: Madrid are losing to Granada and Ronaldo's in a hurry to get a corner taken so he decides to do the ballboy's job.



You've got to admire her quick reactions, even if she lacked the hurdling speed.

FranklyVulgar

Exactly, it's just stating an interesting fact. Ronaldo boys dont like it of course.

Brwned

Nope, what he was saying was if you take away Ronaldo's penalties - 15 scored from 16 - and add them to Higuain's tally, Higuain would be better off. Higuain would have 37 goals if he converted the same amount, but that seems unlikely. Ronaldo would drop down to 30 goals. This is all in the league however.

In all competitions, Higuain's scored 26 goals, Ronaldo's scored 59 in total and 44 with penalties not included. If you took away his penalties and free kicks, and then gave Higuain the penalties, then he'd have 1 more...

Put simply, from open play Higuain's scored 26 goals in 27 starts, or a goal every 106 minutes; Ronaldo's scored 41 in 53 starts, or a goal every 116. With free kicks included Ronaldo's scored a goal every 109 minutes, and with penalties he's scored a goal every 81 minutes.

KingEric7

It's probably just a good stat to demonstrate how good Higuain is, really. Are these rumours really true about him leaving, or is it just a steam pile of shit as usual? He'd be a great signing for anyone.

at that woman, by the way. She basically launched herself at him! Scorned lover?

NoLogo

I think it goes without saying that Higuain isn't really happy with coming from the bench in most games and honestly he is too good to be a backup striker.

Regarding that woman. What the hell was she planing to do with Ronny if she caught him? Hump him right there on the sidelines? Jeez some fans are nuts.

Snow

Not exactly. Pogue repeated it wrongly. Brwned has it right.

niMic

Except it's wrong. I guess it's true what they say about assumptions, huh?

bosnian_red

It's a stupid stat, because that'd be a 30 goals swing in Higuain's favour. Not to mention that he probably wouldn't have scored as many as Ronaldo has from penalties.

reddevilcanada

Converting 15 from 16 penalties is a great record. Any idea how good Messi has been from the penalties in the same season?

You can't just say let's "add Ronaldo's goals from penalties to Higuains", because in all likelihood Higuain wouldn't have scored 15 from 16 like Ronaldo did; that's why he was so far behind in the pecking order in penalties in the CL semi-final. Even Ramos was preferred to Higuain when it came to penalties.

So that's just a dumb hypothetical, because Higuain isn't as good a penalty taker as Ronaldo, so you can't simply assume that Higuain would score the same amount of penalties.

You can try to make these 'assumptions' by 'adding' Ronaldo's goals from penalties, freekicks, tap-ins, long-range shots etc to other players to try and belittle Ronaldo's achievement, but unfortunately it's far from convincing.