I didn't believe one player could be blamed for an entires teams problems. Who'd do that right?
A few characters in the Pogba and Rashford threads tried to suggest it was happening to them. It wasn't though. Just big fans of those players being overly sensitive.
But in this thread Ronaldo was genuinely held responsible for our struggles by a few. They calmed down a bit as the season came to a close.
As you said yourself, some people will try and pin all of the team's failings on one player. That has been the case with De Gea, Ronaldo, Pogba, Maguire, Rashford etc. It's nothing new and the toxicity directed at Pogba, Maguire, and Rashford (over the course of their careers, not just this season) in particular has been far worse than anything Ronaldo has received from what I've observed. Regardless, it has happened to basically every player in the post Fergie era so Ronaldo absolutely isn't alone in that.
"Ronaldo is the problem" was a common narrative in the media (and parroted around here), after Ole turned to shit. It quieted after he single handedly carried us through the champions league, then it came back because of his supposed inability to play Ralf's game, then he quieted the haters again with 2 hatricks.
Feel free to look up the appropriate threadmarks. You're not seeing the toxic hate right now, but Ronaldo has effectively silenced the toxic haters.
I just jumped to a few different thread marks, one of which was the nil nil with Watford in which Ronaldo had a markedly bad game. People are saying he's finished, that they want him to leave in the summer etc. Then I went to the United 3 - Spurs 2 game, and people are saying how he's a 40 goal season player and the team is holding him back, one that went "clueless haters can go feck themselves". Then I went to the drab, 1 nil defeat against Everton and it pivots as to be expected but it's not exactly toxic. "Not the problem (no single player is). But also not the solution. Rooney was right." was one of the comments. (I purposefully ignored the extreme comments from BOTH sides as they weren't really representative)
I feel like I'm missing something really obvious. I know people are protective of Messi and Ronaldo so are perhaps hyper-aware of the shit he gets (when he does get it) so it seems worse than it actually is? I dunno. I'm not really getting what the big fuss is about Ronaldo and his 'haters'.