First 14 games? so what he finished the season on 44 goals and thats what matters.
No, it's really not. By December we were out of the title race in the league. Scoring 44 goals is all well and good, but when only 20 of those actually matter...
If he performed better in those first 14 games he would have had about 60 goals.....some huge decline that, Jesus.
Going from 60 to 44 IS a decline, no matter how badly you want to pretend it's not
Everybody wanking over Mbappe, Salah, Neymar with Ronaldo apparently in decline.....all whilst still outperforming the lot of them, winning Ballon 'dor and helping Madrid to another CL win.
Not the point. He's 33, he's a visibly inferior player than what he was 5 years ago, his body doesn't hold up for more than half the season. And we're supposed to commit 60 millions for him for his age 33-34-35-36-37 seasons? He's already slowing down -big time compared to his best days- what happens if he has a cliff? What would we do with say 120 millions committed to a guy who's no longer good enough to sit on the bench? At the end of the day the club has to protect itself and its interests
33 year old past it Ronaldo still makes the third best footballer in the world Neymar look pretty average in comparison, pretty scary shit.
What if next season he falls off a cliff? Or the season after? Whose gonna take him off our hands?
Giving those kinds of wages to a player his age is huge risk. We're already taking a big risk with the current deal, and we're willing to give him a raise and an extra year. But he wants more guaranteed money than that. Well, if he finds someone willing to give him what he wants, we'll let him go. We're real madrid, we'll survive without him