They aren’t a real club. Never in history was City a rival to United until like 5 years ago basically.
Cristiano Ronaldo | Signs for United! Fcuk City
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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Yes it will hurt seeing him play for the blue side but then realistically I feel he is more of a Madrid legend. Also, doubt if he and Pep are actually even a good fit. It will be another Ibra moment. Feels ronaldo at this point has more to lose than gain with this move.
With our shit central midfield I doubt it
Probably because he wouldn’t want to come back here. He is trophy and glory driven. 100%. He doesn’t want a project at his stage, he just wants more trophies.
Yeah I am starting to feel that way about the state driven and oil clubs
Agreed. Surely PSG would be a nice non controversial option, they have an easy league to wind down his career in, possibly challenging for the CL as well.
So much for his claiming he'd never play for City.
Just read somewhere, if ronaldo joins city he will be the only player to have played under SAF, Jose and Pep. Some amazing coaches he has worked under.
Thought the Mbappe money would push them to hijack the deal but sadly doesn't look to be the case
I get the anger over not signing a midfielder but what do you want United to do about Ronaldo joining City? Try to sign him only for him to reject us because he's trying to one up Messi and chase CL's with a dominate oil club?
He’s going to city because we don’t want him/don’t think it’s prudent to give him and his agent the fees they’re commanding. Mendes offered him to us in March. And yeah they are a rival I just didn’t like the post blowing smoke up their ass
Carlo, Allegri and Zidane too.
Haven’t followed the story.. how likely is this?
Do bears Shit in the woods?
Did the little piggy scream wee wee wee all the way home ?
Polar bears don't.
Not really fussed about him going to City. Wasn't either when Schmeichel or Cole went there. Tevez was somewhat upsetting because it felt like he did it just to spite SAF.
With CR in your squad, you can't really plan beyond two years and have to accommodate him no matter what
With CR in your squad, you can't really plan beyond two years and have to accommodate him no matter what
Won't play there due to Messi. He will have to share headlines.
He's scored 101 goals in 133 games for Juve. He'll bang them in for city. We should be after him.He’s going to city because we don’t want him/don’t think it’s prudent to give him and his agent the fees they’re commanding. Mendes offered him to us in March. And yeah they are a rival I just didn’t like the post blowing smoke up their ass
Could have thought lets go and play together for a couple of seasons but like you say ego wouldn't allow it
Yeah madness turning him down for Edi if that's the case because he hadn't decided about going back to Uruguay thenHe’s going to city because we don’t want him/don’t think it’s prudent to give him and his agent the fees they’re commanding. Mendes offered him to us in March. And yeah they are a rival I just didn’t like the post blowing smoke up their ass
Idiotic. You know nothing about English football.
Pretty much done i would say. He is clearly leaving Juventus and City are the only ones realistically in for him
Being all about United, and still wishing a friend well, even if they're joining City, are not mutually exclusive things.
This is my thinking too. Will break down for sure. If it happens, it happens. United still need to have a great season. We need to look at ourselves.
I was naive. A lot has happened in the last couple of hours.
Romano is saying they’re in advanced discussions. The only certainty is that it appears he’s walked out on juve.
what is interesting is that Romano seems to be the only news source in all of this with any certainty. Almost as if he’s being forced fed news to drum up interest in the player to see if other clubs bite.
What was written before euros is that United offered ronaldo a deal of around 17 million pounds per year (300k per week) but for whatever reason (whether factual or not) the deal didn’t go ahead.
I’m personally still under the impression that city are merely considering the idea (as he is not a pep style player and not in the same mould as Harry Kane) and that Mendes is trying to force us either to bite or city to panic given Kane came out and said he wasn’t interested just yesterday.
United may be considered a “project” to posters above but if Ronaldo was offered to us in March, I very much doubt he cares. I feel that he just wants out of juventus to a club that can at least arguably challenge for the Cl which United’s current squad certainly should be.
Will Ronaldo count as homegrown for City?
Everyone coming on here saying that ‘can’t believe that Ronaldo is going to city’ have perhaps forgotten his last 12 months at United - I was barely off the plane from Moscow in 08 and the ‘ I want to leave United for Madrid’ shite started - took the gloss off the previous season’s magnificent achievement a tad - and it then lasted for the next 12 months - the ‘will he won’t he leave saga’.
When he got his way and went to Madrid mid-contract, he and his advisers then deployed the bi-annual ‘I love Manchester’ shite to get a new deal at Madrid….if he goes to city it won’t cross his mind that it hurts the red side of Manchester to see him in blue - the guy has always been about CR7 with everyone else a distant second….most modern day footballers would do the same - just hurts us more cause we associate him with the last time we were genuinely better than city. Ah well - at least we have martial and lingard to fall back on…..
When he got his way and went to Madrid mid-contract, he and his advisers then deployed the bi-annual ‘I love Manchester’ shite to get a new deal at Madrid….if he goes to city it won’t cross his mind that it hurts the red side of Manchester to see him in blue - the guy has always been about CR7 with everyone else a distant second….most modern day footballers would do the same - just hurts us more cause we associate him with the last time we were genuinely better than city. Ah well - at least we have martial and lingard to fall back on…..
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It's amazing that some people are falling for the clearly utter bollocks PR that Ronaldo was offered to Utd too.
It's an attempt to make it look like oh well what choice did Ronaldo have but to go City, its damage limitation for his reputation with Utd fans.
He wanted to go to Madrid, PSG or City. He's a cnut and the one good thing to come from this is no more Ronaldo songs sang ever again, unless they're abusive ones, and the social media team no longer posting tweets celebrating the fecking 13th anniversary of Ronaldo scoring the 3rd in a 4-0 win vs Aston Villa in 2006 or whatever. Desperate attempt to get likes and retweets.
It's an attempt to make it look like oh well what choice did Ronaldo have but to go City, its damage limitation for his reputation with Utd fans.
He wanted to go to Madrid, PSG or City. He's a cnut and the one good thing to come from this is no more Ronaldo songs sang ever again, unless they're abusive ones, and the social media team no longer posting tweets celebrating the fecking 13th anniversary of Ronaldo scoring the 3rd in a 4-0 win vs Aston Villa in 2006 or whatever. Desperate attempt to get likes and retweets.
I don't believe any of the tweets. Feels like a load of nonsense to create interest, probably engineered by Mendes. If PSG could swing it I would love to watch Ronaldo play with Messi for a season.
100% this. Glad to see the back of Viva Ronaldo.
He’ll have been offered around Europe. He was on the bench end of last season and wanted out. Mendes will have been trying to find takers all summer. Of course we’ll have been offered him. As will Chelsea I’d imagine.
I haven't been following football news at all since the draw at Southampton and now I see Ronaldo to City being an actual possibility. Even if Ronaldo didn't give a single feck about United, I thought his relationship with SAF would stop him from joining another PL club, especially City. But I guess I was wrong.
The only thing that'll really bother me with this move is that we'll have to make changes to Bruno's chant.
The only thing that'll really bother me with this move is that we'll have to make changes to Bruno's chant.
This x1000.
Pure PR from his team and damage control to make it seem like we turned him down, so he had no choice.
Utter bollocks.
Might be wrong but I don’t think any of the City journos/mouthpieces have said a single word about this since the story really began to spread so fast? I thought they would be all over this considering it would be one of the most unexpected, shocking transfers in a very long time.
So Siiiuuuuu will turn to Niuuuuuu
If that's the case, the club should play the game too. The same way every other top club does when they're disrespected. Barca are going out of their way to insult that midfielder who wants to leave. Tottenham called Kane on bullshit. PSG playing hardball with Mbappe. No reason United shouldn't link the truth, if it's the truth. I can see him being offered to us but us not being willing to pay what City are willing to.
He shouldn't rush to sign him just because he's linked with City. That's how we got stuck with Sanchez.
It's done.
Some are still behind (with a probability of never getting out), but I would say that majority is somewhere at the end of the denial phase.
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