Recent content by Gonçalo Motta

His positioning inside the box and finishing ability are as good as they come but he is really average in every other department. I wouldn't go as far as calling him a League 2 player but I think he still has a lot of work to do to be a truly world-class player.

And I'm 35 and have seen Ronaldo since his debut on Sporting. Not sure what is the correlation between he overdoing stuff and talent. His problem was never lack of talent, it was his need to be a show poney and ending up overdoing it all the time. Must be fun to have selective memory I guess...

Yeah, back then when they were really young if someone said to me that one of those 2 would become one of the best football players ever, I would have bet on Quaresma for sure. Mainly because there is a misconception that players with high levels of technique and dribbling = better talents...

Never said it was bad, just saying that is wrong. Telling people that if you train as much as Ronaldo, you can become as good as him is setting up people to fail because being as dedicated as he is, only allowed him to play at his full potential. If the talent isn't there, doesn't really matter...

We played some good football in short patches before he came too. A lot of times when you remove something that became a negative cloud on a club or a person that everyone blames for the problems, usually after that comes a positive patch where either the team starts to look good or seems like...

That's so wrong that I wonder if people only started to watch football in the last couple of years. He was massively talented and was already considered one of the best young talents when he was 17-18. No matter how much you train, you will never become that good if you don't have the talent to...

Disrespected the fans? The guy was fed up with the way the club was treating him and after his kid died other teams were showing more support and respect than his own club. If I'm not mistaken there were even "leaks" coming from the Man Utd camp aiming to bash Ronaldo that turned out not to be...

Taking into consideration that most of the team was playing like sh*t before he came, while he was here, and after he left, I kinda understand the frustration tbh. While all the attention was on him because of the tantrums or the classic 'he doesn't track back', people seemed to forget where the...

People still bashing the guy after everything he has done for his clubs, NT, and the sport overall. Unbelievable The weirdest part is people still bashing him for what he said about the Man Utd issues although everyone knows that he was right and a lot of those problems are the same problems...

Ronalod. :lol: Even the social media department needs to retire

Ronalod? New prodigy coming from the reserves squad? I hope Ten Hag is auditing the social media department as well :D

If Maradona scored that goal today, my guess is that it wouldn't be iconic at all and there would be more people questioning the ref than hyping the goal. Nostalgia helps and there are a lot of things we take for granted from both Ronaldo and Messi that will be seen from a different perspective...

That doesn't make sense at all. Real Madrid is a big club and is a contender for the CL with or without Ronaldo. They winning it this year doesn't change the impact he had in their last 4 CL wins or the 9 years he played for them.

Only 25%? Imagine being on vacation for a full season, barely bothering at all and the worst that happens is a 25% wage reduction in a salary that's already absurd anyway. That would put us around the same wage level as Arsenal and still way above Tottenham and both teams are going to be in the...

Rashford I can see why the manager would give him another chance but what's up with all new managers giving Lingard a place in the squad. I just don't get what they see in him