Yes and when you start losing your ability you start looking like a clown. But for the most of his career this attitude helped him and his team.
Ronaldo hasn’t come out of retirement. Jordan at washington was done, Ronaldo was top scorer last year.
I hear you. As long as he’s not a detriment to the dressing room or team morale. I’d guess he’s going to end up leaving before the window shuts purely because he doesn’t want to accept not being first choice, let alone playing in the UCL.
Yeah, if he was in his early 30s then it would be different situation altogether, but nowdays he's a shadow of his former self which doesn't warrant whole team playing for him.
He was top scorer alright, but his overall game isn't remotely close to what he once was. He can still play on highest level (as did Jordan), but only if whole team plays for him while he stands and waits for the ball to be delivered to him.
I do not doubt that Ronaldo's mentality and that he was one of our two standout performers last season on the pitch. He got the goals and got us past the UCL group stages, but we needed more than that last year. I do not believe that Ronaldo is as toxic as some tabloids/rumors make him out to be, but he did jet off to Portugal when he was out "injured" for the Man City game. You can't tell me that such a move would help with the already toxic dressing room atmosphere.
As much as I agree with you in nearly everything, some people just see a different picture, and we have to respect that to the maximum. I also think last season he represented everything that someone should demand from a United player, and put so many performances to help the team win games, and I also think I'd rather fight to keep a guy like him here even at this age, rather than keep players who have given up or simply don't care (I do think he cares).
Of course they didn't want him. Didn't stop Ronaldo repeatedly throwing himself at them all summer long, begging them to sign him, though.
If Ronaldo reduced his wage by half, would Bayern want to take a risk?
Because you don't sign a player of that caliber to be a sub. Creates all kinds of problems you don't want. They don't need him, so there's no point putting themselves through it
Quick question - what team do you support?
Probably a Ronaldo fanboy
I don’t think it’s ideal for him to sit on the bench and start stinking up the place with his oversized (and arguably justified) ego. We can have no place for anyone who isn’t prepared to run through walls for the club. Players not onboard with the philosophy can have such a bad effect as we have seen. Honestly I’d mutually release him.
But there’s nobody to negotiate with, because everyone he’d sign for knows he isn’t good enough.
Rude wake up call for him and his fanbois
Oh god, you actually might be onto something!
Are you Sonja by any chance? The similarity in your posting style and your complete, unapologetic devotion to this one specific player is uncanny
Wouldn't Atlético go for it for those sort of figures? I was thinking them or an Italian club. Gutting that we're likely going to be lumbered with him this season, though. I can't imagine it's going to end well as he increasingly only features from the bench.
Rumours died down ever since he said he was gonna expose some people about false reports in 2 weeks about a week ago.
Why wait two weeks?
"To bring his name down" - does it matter that he's tried to engineer a move away to 2 clubs, or 6 (as an example)? Unless you're referring specifically to the Atletico links (which would be relevant to Madrid fans) or his reputation in terms of being "rejected", I don't see how it changes much from a United supporters perspective.
Of course the links were not true. To think he'd be linked publicly with every big club in Europe you need to be a special class of an idiot, like most of today's football fans.
So he can choose which of the two narratives his team have drafted he’ll publish to the world
“Bring his name down” by suggesting he got rejected by this long list of clubs.
I have no idea.
Bloody hell! Yeah i can see how the narrative would impact him from a personal/reputation POV but from a United supporters' POV, it doesn't really mean much because it's clear he wants out.
Ronaldo is never going to mutually terminate. Would you earning £420k a week? The issue is he wants to leave but being paid similar wages. He obviously isn’t that desperate to leave then!
A ridiculous statement, he doesn't suit how some teams play football at all, but there is zero proof that he's not good enough to compete at the top level for a team that plays to his strengths.
Benfica or bust
