He "only" scored goals against Barca. I don't think that is a reason for dislike a player. I don't hate or dislike Salah, Haaland or Saka. I respect them as players.I think he might be more hated on here than Barca forums at this point
Talking about PR - Ronaldo has best PR in history of sports based on the fact that he is even involved in debate Ronaldo vs Messi. It is like comparing Lewandovski and original Ronaldo. Or Zidane and Maradona.
Roger.
Roger.
By 'these threads', I obviously meant the Messi thread and the Ronaldo thread. The GOAT and versus threads are clearly not just about one or the other.
I had a little spiel typed out to just point out why what you’ve said isn’t true and explain why you’re actually more guilty of what you’re accusing me of than I am, but I see admin are already (probably quite rightly) annoyed by it being somewhat derailed, so all I’ll say is it’s not your job to tell people where or what they should post mate.
Rio as much as I like him I get, he's a bit of a 'pick me' so I know he'll never say a bad word about such a huge figure that would happily ostracize anyone. Not to mention the online Ronaldo extremists that would possibly spam his (and probably his wife's) instagram as we've seen with the Portugal players. He could do without it.
Oh Ronaldo will want to go.
That's what most of us thought after the 2022 World Cup - that it would be his last one.
I know. Especially playing in his home country. Ronaldo constantly adapts but there's only so much father time will allow him to. If he does end up playing at the next WC, he 100% would have to accept being a sub.
Not happening. Especially if he doesn't score.
Or maybe, just maybe they know Ronaldo better than you and don’t have the same opinion of him that you do?
I'm with you on this one. Keane is unflinchingly brutal with almost everyone in football, yet he refuses to criticize Ronaldo even at his age and with the way he's acted. It's weird.If you read and can understand what I wrote, it's got little to nothing to do with how well anybody knows him.
"Maybe, just maybe" ok....
It's not weird imo, Keane is not as tough as he perhaps likes to present himself.
Think it's just loyalty to an old team mate who has extreme professionalism
Keane just comes off as a dickhead, he flip flops and waffles depending on the player/team. He’s never consistent on his views. Lately he’s been worse than before, I think the overlap has shown what a flip flopping , out of touch twat that he is.
They both exited the club unceremoniously so thats one thing they have in common. On top of that Keane has always been an advocate of players having to work hard and Ronaldo despite his age and all his troubles always works hard off the pitch so if Keane criticizes Ronaldo basically he criticize himself, making his own views invalid. Not to mention he likely wants to be on a good term with Ronaldo whos a very successful footballer.
I understand the loyalty side of things, but I still think Keane has a real blind spot for Ronaldo. I'm sure he'd be very critical if someone like Rooney was still hobbling around the pitch at 41 yet expecting to start for England in the World Cup.
The thing is, Ronaldo has still earned his place. Hes still Portugal’s best striker currently.
Isn't the other alternative Ramos? He doesn't even start for his club. Portugal have been pretty weak in the CF position for as long as I can remember.
Despite how he comes across publicly, most of Ronaldo's former teammates rarely have anything bad to say about him.
It’s more the fact that he restricts their play. He didn’t play really badly but he’s so static and purely a goal poacher. It’s painful to see how they try to accommodate him when they clearly have such quality in the squad.
His offsides aren’t even borderline.
