Cristiano Ronaldo: Set to leave by mutual agreement

Is Ronaldo justified to say that he “feels betrayed” by Manchester United?

  • Ronaldo should be not be allowed to play for United again

    Votes: 1,536 81.7%
  • He's always been a massive bellend

    Votes: 884 47.0%
  • Messi has always been the better player

    Votes: 574 30.5%
  • He should be begged to come back with double the salary and ten Haag should bow to his greatness

    Votes: 126 6.7%

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Garethw

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I could understand Ronaldo’s frustrations at being benched if he was on 15-20 goals so far this season, but can’t he see that his form has not warranted being picked? He’s been fecking atrocious. Why are not more pundits calling this out?
 

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He shat on United after our best performance under Ten Hag (vs spurs) and he did it again right after that feel good last second win vs Fulham.

The man is a poison.

Another brilliant Glazers decision to bring this lunatic back.
 

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Just listening to Piers on Talksport and him noting that EtH is a hypocrite for not wanting to bring Ronaldo on last few minutes v City because it would be disrespectful and then bringing him on against Spurs in a move that would've been similarly disrespectful is just ridiculous. Can he really not see the difference in bringing someone on for two minutes at what, 6-2 or 6-3 down versus bringing someone on in a 2-0 victory to see out the remainder of a game?

And most importantly, since he's just parroting Ronaldo's thoughts, can Ronaldo not see the difference? Absolute idiot.
All talk of disrespect is disgusting. We're going through a financial crisis where families are struggling to pay for bills and food, and here we are talking about a vile millionaire footballer feeling disrespected because he was simply asked to do his job. It's frankly appalling behaviour and it makes me sick that he's associated with a club I care about. I can understand arse wipes like Piers Morgan defending him as he's profiting from the attention and enjoying the fallout, but any United fans trying to defend him should be ashamed
 

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This is a symbolic moment for the club. The last great circus act packing up its belongings and preparing to roll out of town. United was once a carnival of otherworldly noise, big name mercenaries and distraction, not always bad but never the right choice: Mourinho, Depay, ADM, Lingard, Cavani, Ibra, Mata, Matic, Pogba and lastly, their circus master in chief, Ronaldo.

It’s fitting the biggest and loudest relic is the last the leave and we’d expect nothing less for him to try and go out all guns blazing but what a pathetic last salvo this is, a whimper, a stain on his name, having to stoop to an interview with Morgan really says it all. Once a near god for his brilliance on the pitch he now departs a laughing stock, deluded and carrying that thick stench of drama and noise away with him.
 

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If I didn't know better I would think Piers gave Ronaldo permission to handle his Twitter today. The amount of defending Ronaldo that I've seen on his feed could only have been done that diligently by Ronaldo himself.
 

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2 weeks wages, that’ll hurt.
Probably limits on what we can do contractually. Any money we can claw back from this utter prick is music to my ears. I did say this would happen when we re-signed him. You don't bring a arrogant narcissistic cnut back to the club at 36 and think that if things don't work out perfectly that he won't behave like an entitled brat. This was quite obviously going to be how it all ended.
 

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Didn't he? I thought he did, but maybe not.
Rooney played that match with a hip injury (which IIRC he injured also against Chelsea in the league) and he made it around an hour until he had to be subbed in the second-half. I think Nani came on for him. Nani scored in the shoot-out, as did Anderson - both were like 19/20 years old in their first season but both delivered in the shoot-out.

I remember seeing images of the bruise Rooney had played through in that match; must've been agony.
 

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Have people not watched the Dark Knight? Shame.

And is this enough grounds for a contract termination?
 

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If that’s the punishment then it kind of reinforces points that Ronaldo made about the shambolic running of the club.

You can’t allow a player to disrespect the manager like that and then only give him a slap on the wrist.

Anything less than Ronaldo being fired/released massively undermines Ten Haag.
Its just a report, we dont know if its true and either way I dont think it will stop on that anyway.
 

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If I didn't know better I would think Piers gave Ronaldo permission to handle his Twitter today. The amount of defending Ronaldo that I've seen on his feed could only have been done that diligently by Ronaldo himself.
It’s the price Piers pays for having exclusives like this and indeed it’s very sad that this excessive and truly repulsive asslicking is a profitable strategy for him. Disgusting really.
 

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If that’s the punishment then it kind of reinforces points that Ronaldo made about the shambolic running of the club.

You can’t allow a player to disrespect the manager like that and then only give him a slap on the wrist.

Anything less than Ronaldo being fired/released massively undermines Ten Hag.
Probably the 1st thing they can do without a high level discussion, I doubt it will be the last
 

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We might just have the best teenager in the World in our hands, after recently producing a World class teenager in Greenwood. What other club can currently claim that?

“So below standard” my arse. The club also started major renovations to the training ground last summer (2021).
What happened with Greenwood? Even prior to him being accused, there were articles in the (gutter) press claiming that Ronaldo wasn't happy with the attitude of the younger players.

And now we're hearing attitude issues with Garnarcho at the beginning of the season?

Huge red flags in my opinion.

We've had plenty of talented players come through our ranks. Better than Garnarcho too. But many have failed because of their attitudes and personalities.

We haven't had the same leaders as yesteryear to guide our young players.
 

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Rooney played that match with a hip injury (which IIRC he injured also against Chelsea in the league) and he made it around an hour until he had to be subbed in the second-half. I think Nani came on for him. Nani scored in the shoot-out, as did Anderson - both were like 19/20 years old in their first season but both delivered in the shoot-out.

I remember seeing images of the bruise Rooney had played through in that match; must've been agony.
I should have remembered, can remember Nani and Anderson with his.
 

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If that’s the punishment then it kind of reinforces points that Ronaldo made about the shambolic running of the club.

You can’t allow a player to disrespect the manager like that and then only give him a slap on the wrist.

Anything less than Ronaldo being fired/released massively undermines Ten Hag.
Unsurprisingly, a club can't fine a player beyond what is already agree in the disciplinary policies. We have this discussion every time someone is fined.
 

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Why are you surprised? ETH is the Manchester United trying to bring the club back to life. An employee of the club publicly criticizing him is appalling behavior.
He's trying to force his way out the club. Just reading between the lines.

Its obvious his time is up here. He knows it. We know it. Now he is just making sure he won't ever play for us again.
 

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All talk of disrespect is disgusting. We're going through a financial crisis where families are struggling to pay for bills and food, and here we are talking about a vile millionaire footballer feeling disrespected because he was simply asked to do his job. It's frankly appalling behaviour and it makes me sick that he's associated with a club I care about. I can understand arse wipes like Piers Morgan defending him as he's profiting from the attention and enjoying the fallout, but any United fans trying to defend him should be ashamed
It really is baffling they can’t see the difference. If anything ETH was trying to be inclusive of Ronaldo being part of one of our biggest victories this season.

I really wish ETH brought him on against city now and showed him the disrespect.
 

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You just know this spanner is going to be talking non-stop about Utd once he leaves ala LVG-esque.
 

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Hmm Souness going after certain players and not others.

Maybe Pogba should apologise for Cristiano's comments? At what point are people going to call him out for being a racist? How many examples do we need?
 

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I should have remembered, can remember Nani and Anderson with his.
I still have the final saved on my computer strangely, haven't watched it since the day though.

I remember Ronaldo, Nani, Anderson, Carrick, Giggs taking penalties, I can't remember the other takers though.
 

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for all ronaldo bangs on about how shite it's been at united since SAF retired, he of all people should know that talking out of turn like this would have seen ferguson bounce him out the door quicker than it takes his hair gel to dry.
if i was ETH i'd fine him 6 months salary and tell him to stay at home.
 
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