No way we can subsidize his games at his next adventure. Should we not getting a mutually agreed termination, do the Schweinsteiger treatment. Remove his shirt no., clear his locker, but pay his wage until end of season.
Cristiano Ronaldo: Set to leave by mutual agreement
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I bet Ronaldo's lawyers are going through it with a fine tooth comb for any legal ramifications.
If anything United ought to sue him for reputational damages to the club.
Strange take, sure he was quite close with Benzema and Marcelo? He always seems to have army of teammates defending him too, although it’s hard to tell whether it’s out of admiration or friendship.
Ronaldo is only close to the man in the mirror.
Michael Jackson?
You don’t have to resort to name calling right away. It’s sign of lacking self confidence. In fact I haven’t said anything controversial.
Many united fans knew it. Thats why is always a debate about his legend status since 2009, But it made sense because of his ability. Since last year he has been complete dead weight. After all this if he still remain a captain and start a single game, even as a sub, i will lose all respect for ETH as well.
It was always the elephant in the room. Douchebag but amazing skills and our douchebag. Now it's just "douchbag."
ETH will absolutely not allow him to set foot at United again. Even suggesting he might is disparaging to his character.
Yeah hopefully once the full interview is out they'll be enough in there so we'll be able to claim breach of contract and just release him, it's best for everyone that he's gone asap
Speak for yourself, mate. I couldn't care less about Ronaldo. He was never up there in the list of favourite players for me, once he left us in his prime to go to Real Madrid.
I'm about the same age as you (38) and I can safely say my favourite moments supporting the club were the Treble season and regaining our title back from Arsenal in 2002 because that involved most of the members of the Class of 92, a group of players who were the reason for me supporting the club.
You mean the celebration
He'll probably just chuckle at 'scorched earth' just being Ronaldo behaving like a tit and making a fool of himself as usual
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If there are no takers and mutual termination of the contract without paying up the rest of the wages isn't an option then maybe that's what might happen. If it's a mutual end with no payment that's the best case.
The worst case scenario for me is if the club gives in and pays the rest of his deal just to get rid of him. I think that's weak and it harms the club's image. Let him rot in the reserves and let him train with the youth team. I think it happened to Becks at Madrid, Schweinstiger at United so there are precedents with big name players. It'd be a hell of a statement to make.
I have been a United supporter since the 70s. My favourite player back then was Gordon McQueen then Robbo and finally Cantona. There has never been a shadow of a doubt that those mentioned players loves United. Ronaldo only loves himself and United was always a stepping stone to his career, which is fine.
But don't be fooled into thinking that he values United any more than say Sporting or RM. They are only tools for his financial objectives.
It always boggles my mind why he has so many millions of followers on social media.
It's not like he has anything interesting to say. Vacuous at worst or insipid at best. It's all about his botox-ed face or body. So it makes you wonder about his 'followers'.... not that there is anything wrong with that.
But once again, United get the raw end of the deal. We paid quite a bit to bring him over from Juve plus his exorbitant wages, all with not much of a payback.
It's happening because of the club's corporate-like structure and people.
Ronaldo is a very family-oriented person, if something happens to him personally he expects empathy from the people who know the situation.
He had SAF who always had been caring for the players personally, then the Spanish club then the Italian club.
Imagine him talking to Richard Arnold about personal issues, and expecting a return call about his child's condition. It will never happen, that's why we will always have problems with players like him and Pogba and specific players will always feel like they are corporate employees. Unless the club gives more power to the manager and changes John Murtough with a more respected football person.
I can understand why ETH didn't check on him frequently, it just shows his lack of experience. Now he experienced the situation, it's a good thing.
It's sad to see ETH call an "executive meeting" to decide how to punish Ronaldo, it should be completely up to ETH alone.
Ronaldo is a very family-oriented person, if something happens to him personally he expects empathy from the people who know the situation.
He had SAF who always had been caring for the players personally, then the Spanish club then the Italian club.
Imagine him talking to Richard Arnold about personal issues, and expecting a return call about his child's condition. It will never happen, that's why we will always have problems with players like him and Pogba and specific players will always feel like they are corporate employees. Unless the club gives more power to the manager and changes John Murtough with a more respected football person.
I can understand why ETH didn't check on him frequently, it just shows his lack of experience. Now he experienced the situation, it's a good thing.
It's sad to see ETH call an "executive meeting" to decide how to punish Ronaldo, it should be completely up to ETH alone.
Said this before.
That ego needs to be brought down a few notches and that will royally piss him off too which is good.
Awful in how he conducts himself in his profession, but he's done a lot for various communities and I've heard firsthand from people that have met him/spent time with him that he's a lovely person.
What he's done here is unacceptable and just another episode in a series of ego-driven acts, but no need to resort to character assassination.
Are you so naive on how companies work? Its not a mom & pop convenient store which is how you are suggesting it should operate.
There are structures and hierarchies which is inevitable for a company that's worth several billion dollars and has an annual turnover in the 500m range.
You seem to be making a lot of assumptions about the amount of communication they occured and what would have been expected.
Where are you getting all of this from?
Musk is another psycho himself. His comments at the diver "that pedo guy" inflating his ego calling himself Teslas founder when he invested a year later.
He's another one of the great entertainers you'd not want to be near like Ronaldo.
Musk might be violating labor laws in the US too so I can't wait for it to unravel.
I work in Software Engineering it's a good laugh to watch Elon handle the twitter fiasco, I'd actually love to see it go bust, because he's ripping the company apart right now.
The practices like the check marks are ill-thought out and he fired a thousand or so engineers based on how many lines of code they wrote, which is basically firing the top performers at the company. You have to really think about what is the most efficient or elegant solution and not botch together multiple lines of inefficient code.
It's funny that 89% of Twitter employees think he will destroy the company, and he probably will.
It's not the case for other top-top clubs, they don't mix business stuff with footballing stuff. Which is why clubs that run like us keep failing. We will fail again if we don't give full control to ETH and change DOF. Just look at United's statement that ETH is calling an "executive meeting" for Ronaldo's situation. It's absurd.
Are you so naive on how companies work? Its not a mom & pop convenient store which is how you are suggesting it should operate.
There are structures and hierarchies which is inevitable for a company that's worth several billion dollars and has an annual turnover in the 500m range.
Pep is the most powerful man at the city for players, same goes for Klopp.
From Piers's clips.
RM is the most successful club in the last decade. Do you think their managers have all the power?
Agreed (if its a DOF AND ETH making decisions), I mean players are there for a manager to get results.
The DOF is also there for long term planning, but ETH knows what he wants and he's proven to have made the right decisions so far.
You know what you are missing in a squad, and you know what isn't working, who isn't performing.
The manager knows how the dressing room is, who has what attitude and where the problems lie.
He should be the first to say this player can get sold, this player is surplus to requirements and the power should be with him.
The DOF and ETH should have full power.
I mean historically speaking, centralised power never works. You need each person to have complete autonomy to do their job without having a CEO or central authority to grant permission or sanction something.
I think he means more that it should be down to a DOF and ETH, if he meant ETH solely then it probably won't work but ETH should have a big say too.
That's not name calling mate, not even close
What’s the heck of this? Mind blowing really. No, it’s nuclear nonsense bomb explosion.
Ronaldo is too big a 'star' that the owners have to get involved. If it was Phil Jones, I doubt if the owners even have heard of him.
No, but the difference is they run with football-related people who know how to manage players and fans. We don't have this kind of structure and hierarchy, which is why the manager has to be The One at our club. Or players will keep calling Richard Arnold the "president of the club".
The Glazers probably don't realise Phil is at the club, they could pass him on the street and not realise who he is even though he's been with us for 11 years
Players? you mean one player? That's just extrapolating evidence based on what one person said.
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Here is the official statement,
https://www.manutd.com/en/news/deta...cial-statement-on-cristiano-ronaldo-interview
Where does it say ETH is calling an “executive meeting”?
He's one of those pundits you don't love or hate, because he never says anything controversial but is always fair in his judgment
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