This is the fear of many fans...which coach could feasibly leave Ronny or Messi on the bench and keep their job? ...only Pep I would say...although both those players could probably play i a city team such is their level and dominance with the ball.
I really can’t see how Ronaldo fits in a Pep city team, he has never played with a tradional number 9 that he is happy to allow basically to be a passenger out of possession. Pep dropped Aguero when he first went to City for not working hard enough and again when he got towards the end of his time for not been able to cover the ground. At Barca Pep fell out with Zlatan for the same issue and he wanted to use him as a plan B which I obviously never went well. Personally I would have loved to have seen how Ronaldo worked at city personly I think it would have unraveled very quickly as there styles are so at odds.
Messi is an intresting one though, when messi was with Pep at Barca, Messi ran and pressed. That’s obviously different to modern messi whose work rate is only marginally higher than Ronaldos. So what would happen if he played for Pep now? Would be very interesting.
But I’m not sure even Pep would be untouched if he had Ronaldo or Messi and dropped them for tactical reasons think it would completely overshadow any club and any manager.
Thats the decision you make by bringing in Ronaldo, even an aging Ronaldo, it 100% changes the dynamic of the club for good and bad.
The good is you get them to pull goals out the bag when your playing terrible, like we have seen time and again with Ronaldo.
The bad is you really can only play is that it’s not what’s the best tactics and team of 11 you can put out.it’S what’s the best 10 players you can play with this mega star and what tactic best suits this megastar.