To be fair, he left in 2022.
Cristiano Ronaldo - Countdown to 1k
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Always happy for Cristiano. Unbelievable player. He should be able to get that 1000 goal, rooting for him. A lot of posters here complain about him but forget what he did when he played for us. Second stint wasnt the best but he laid down our issues in a very honest way and the proof is where we are at the moment.
SAF said: Ronaldo's my boy! So all of you just shut up.
SAF said: Ronaldo's my boy! So all of you just shut up.
It’s all SirAF’s fault.
You were doing fine until you told everyone to shut up. Best to avoid that in the future.
Anyone who says this is chronically online and/or didn't watch the World Cup because Messi's best moments were not goals or penalties - the pass against Netherlands and beating Gvardiol, the best defender at the tournament until then assisting against Croatia. Was a weird narrative linking Messi being player of the tournament to penalties when he was great from general play in a way Ronaldo couldn't be.
His buddy Thomas Brady played until he was 45, so Ronaldo will see no reason why he can't as well.
I'll be glad as well when he gets to 1000 goals. And if he wins World Cup I have to say it would be great witnessing him do it, like it was when Messi won it with Argentina. But he's still so egoistic that it's ridiculous and funny sometimes
There are no legal issues anymore. This should really be a sticky…
100% if he is still under 1,000 goals.
It’s genuinely weird.
what’s weird about liking players and following their careers? Especially one that was core/the catalyst to the most successful period of the club you support in the premier league era?
Ronaldo gave a lot of United fans a lot of happy moments, some being fond of him and rooting for him/following his career is actually pretty normal.
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Its actually weird for anyone to not follow his career, doubly so to loiter in this thread to sneer at people who still follow a former Red who also happens to be the most followed athlete on the planet.
I assume they mean it's weird people follow him to be negative, it's perfectly normal to follow a player if you remain a big fan of them?
The core/catalyst to our success was always Fergie as evidenced by all we won under him before and after the few years Ronaldo was a top player for us. Never mind the fact that he shat on the club more than once including engineering a move to Madrid who he gave his best years to.
Sure when he was at Madrid it was hard not to but I don’t know why anyone gives a toss about what he does now in Saudi Arabia. It’s also not surprising that he divides opinion considering how poorly he has treated the club on more than one occasion and the legal controversy surrounding him.
I don’t care enough to camp in this thread and hatepost as evidenced by my whopping 14 total posts in this thread. But I can certainly understand the vitriol. He is a narcissistic personality vacuum and there is absolutely nothing redeeming about him outside of scoring goals.
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I don't think its about where he's playing, rather its about following the story of both a former Untied player who also happens to be one of hte greatest players in the history of the sport. There's nothing odd about being curious how the story unfolds, particularly as he's nearing 1000 career goals.
Bingo. Spot on.
The story finished when he stopped playing top flight football. At least it should have. I always liked Messi as a player. I think he is/was a better player than Ronaldo. I have zero interest in how he gets on in the MLS.
I'm not interested in either of their club careers either. More so to see how they both fare in internationals over the next year, which will surely be their last dance as professional footballers.
Yep. Couldn’t agree more.
What a weird take. Who the hell is so insecure that when someone lauds a player on what they’ve done for the club, their answer is “no, the manager”? I’m evidently talking about players. Ronaldo was core/catalyst for/to the best prem United team - and Ferguson would tell you as much, hell - he does any chance he gets to speak about Ronaldo.
Many a great United players fell out and/or had less than optimal relations with the club at one point or another - that doesn’t erase what they did and accomplished at the club. What does giving his best years to Madrid have anything to do with the fact he was one of the best players United has had, and thus people will be fond of him and follow him?
“Oh no, football fans follow great players - one that was great for them - that is so weird!”
Ok, I get that. The latest bump probably is the wrong one to get overly bemused about what’s going on in this thread, in fairness.
There were plenty of catalysts as players and Ronaldo obviously wasn’t the very core of it or we would’ve stopped winning after he left. Never mind the Glazernomics we were operating with at the time. All you have to do is look at how things have gone post-Fergie to see who was driving our success.
I don’t know how you’ve managed to find that take weird or somehow insecure. And furthermore I think it’s smalltime to consider a player who had one outstanding season for us one of our best ever players. He certainly had one of the best seasons we’ve seen at the club. But that’s the measure of it.
We would have more Champions Leagues under our belt if Ronaldo stayed, it's so obvious. We were still a very good club after he left but we couldn't compete with Pep's Barca. We sold Ronaldo and Tevez in the same window and after 2009 our transfer decisions were a complete disaster.
Instead of finding a proper replacement for Ronaldo, we bought Valencia, washed Owen, Obertan, Bebe and other bang average players like Young, Cleverely etc. Scholes was getting older, so was Giggs and Neville retired and Barca was simply too good and they bought the likes of Henry, David Villa, Zlatan etc.
The Glazers also failed to buy Lewandowski in 2012 and according to Evra we were very close to resign Ronaldo in 2013 and buy Bale as well. Ronaldo formally agreed but the Glazers didn't want to spend that kind of money, so it falied. We have been a joke of a club since then.
So yes we were "successful" but it was clear that it was an aging squad and only Fergie could have done wonders with that squad. Once he retired and Moyes came, it was clear that that the squad wasn't good enough and we didn't even reach the top 4 in Moyes' only season for Utd.
Take away penalties, Messi is still the undisputed MVP of the WC...
That's the difference between a penalty/tap-in merchant who ghosts in every single WC and a GOAT level playmaker + dribbler + goalscorer who doesn't even need to score to dominate a game.
Speaking of records, other than holding most penalty goals record by far, Ronaldo also is the record holder for most penalties in a single Euro (3 in 4 games), a Euro record.
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True, but the fixation with Grealish on the Caf is weirder still.
The grealish thread isn't even surfacing on the all threads page ATM. Is the caf obsessed or is this an in joke I'm missing?
But as you said yourself it’s not as simple as just selling Ronaldo. Had we been in the normal position of flexing our financial muscle upon his departure we probably wouldn’t have missed out on Benzema or Hazard or Ramsey or Varane amongst others. Also very much doubt Pogba leaves in that scenario.
At the time it seemed a mad decision for Ronaldo to leave for Madrid and if not for our leech owners it would’ve proved to be IMO.
He's still an unlikeable wankstain though.
I don’t know if you are being purposely obtuse or if you just legitimately read poorly. Even after being told that I’m specifically talking about players - you waffle about Ferguson.
Yes, it’s a very insecure take because telling you Ronaldo was core and a catalyst to our most successful prem period - he was - somehow got you to talk about Ferguson, despite it being contextualised to you that I was talking about players. I mean, why would anyone bring up Ferguson when someone mentions how good or important a player was for the club? That’s an odd segue. Trying to reframe the discussion to “who was driving our success” has nothing to do with what I said. Ronaldo was key and core, much like Rooney, and much like Cantona before them etc. This isn’t commentary on how important Ferguson was/is for United.
And yes, Ronaldo is one of the best United players in the prem era (and otherwise to be honest). The club has a profile of him in the “Legend” section of the official website. Harsh reality that you’re just going to have to accept - much like the how there are plenty of United fans that still follow him because of the legendary stuff he did here (and elsewhere)
I find him hard to like. adored him in the first episode but then the push to leave done it for me. loyalty first. since that I've grew ever more resentful of him. insanely amazing footballer but his ego is very unlikeable for me. I actually fail to understand the man utd adulation for him when he pushed to leave us when we were an elite team but each to their own
Plus the Piers Morgan episode where he showed himself up as incredibly dislikeable.
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News flash we won eight PL titles including runs of seven in nine years and eight in eleven under Ferguson before Ronaldo arrived. And a treble. So your claim that Ronaldo spearheaded our most successful period is just plain daft.
Never mind the fact that he can only be considered our best player in one bloody season at the club. It’s an insult to Cantona and Rooney amongst others to mention Ronaldo amongst actual United legends.
You sound like someone who started supporting United somewhere around 2005 and have reluctantly continued to do so since 2009.
United has won three back to back prem titles in two occasions. In both periods; 6 major trophies including CL. I give the edge to the 00s team due to back to back CL finals. Ronaldo was core and a catalyst in said team.
Your issue with him being called a legend needs to be taken up with the club - as the club classes and refers to him as.
You sound like someone with a major hang-up about Ronaldo - and you’re yet to explain how football fans, specifically United fans, following the career of a club legend - according to the club - is weird
yes you're right that totally rammed the nails in the coffin tbh
Him walking out of the stadion while still being picked in the team as a sub, because we were playing better without him that match really destroys the idea the idea of him being a consummate professional and an ideal rolemodel in a team game. Leaving work on your shift when you're the highest paid player in the league should be called out.
You’re just another fanboi.Horrible logic. Using the same viewpoint, Messi wasn’t a catalyst at Barca because they were able to win after him. Madrid were also able to win after Ronaldo. Does that undermine what he did for the club beforehand?
Ronaldo was head and shoulders the best player on the team between 06-09. No amount of mental gymnastics will change that.
Wasn’t just one season though..
Back to back PFA player of the years. Premier league team of the season 4 times in a row and a BDOR podium finish 3 times.
There’s a good chance you weren’t even watching back then based on your takes here.
Dude WTF, time and again the same...you are becoming cringe as fvck, plus like if noone ever trashed Messi for those penalties either or didn't or doesn't have tons of narratives againts him.
You can give any sort of view regarding Cristiano without constantly "calling out" Messi.
Regarding Cristiano's Manchester United legacy, aside from how many fans might feel about Cristiano or not, he will always be a Manchester United Legend per se, simply because of the stature of the player and the achievements during his period there.
Another matter it's how liked it's him nowadays for many fans after his last period at the Club.
BTW, Clubs, Managers also have lots of power and a very easy way to trash any player in the history of the game at a certain point, no matter if the player acts a lot, a tad or not a little as a twat or not, never is as black and white as its portrait, it's very easy to transform any situation in a "traitor selfish twat " one. No matter how much truth it's in it, NEVER is as plain as that and Club Managers, Coaches have it easier to control such narrative.
I'm not talking just about Cristiano here, but in geenral. The truth always it's more grey than as black or white as many times it's portraited.
You use the term retarded logic and then go on to compare what Messi did for Barca to what Ronaldo did for United. Irony.
And no Ronaldo was not clearly our best player in any season aside from 2007 and he didn’t even play for us in 2009 but as you were.
I can’t be arsed to argue the entire fanboy army. Carry on with your wanking. Sorry to disturb.