Ronaldo played 292 games for us in his first spell. Far more than some legends. What an absolutely ridiculous claim to try and ignore 137 appearances from that time 27 goals a league cup and an FA Cup win to suit your agenda and cut his time in half. I’m sorry you felt that he ‘wasn’t established’ but that is frankly an absurd claim. That’s an average of 45 games a season for 3 seasons…’not established’
Ronaldo played for us for six seasons, you can’t cut that in half and shave a season off at the end to suit your narrative, we won an FA Cup (04) where he was man of the match in both the semi and the final. The league cup in 05 where he played well and scored. Then we won three league titles on the bounce, the CL, league cup, world club cup all of which he was key to. Look at what happened after he left, all the other players were still there and we didn’t play with 10.
Main point being though…if your shaving off 50% of the time someone spent at the club to suit your narrative then you know your making it up.