Lack of previous training/playing time ? He didn't have much of a preseason did he.
He’s on over £500k a week. It would cost a bomb to release him from his contract.
These are media rumors by internet journos seeking to drive content. We actually don't know whether any of that is true or not.
Which is why we signed him for two years. We wanted him here for that period. The club won't move him unless he explicitly forces a move, at which point there will be action.
Not in this instance. There’s been plenty of noise around Ronaldo and his lack of a future at the club.
We signed him in what was a vanity Ed Woodward signing. Short term thinking and with generating sales, clicks, interactions more than following a footballing strategy and plan. And we’re now suffering for it.
Noise is noise. There's no evidence that this is true, although I'm sure some have presumed it to be because it suits their narrative on Ronaldo.
We're not suffering at all. If he stays we have another great player who can contribute to getting us top 4. If he leaves, those chances go down significantly because we don't have the goals to get us there.
Noise usually means something, especially in footballing circles. There’s noise around Antony and Gakpo although nothing official. What does that tell you?
Actually noise usually means something is an unconfirmed rumor. Like most transfer tweets - 90% are complete nonsense to drive clicks to twitter feeds.
That’s nonsense. Last season was statistically the worst season we’ve ever had in the PL era. The squad, morale, and atmosphere was the worst it’s ever been. That has rolled over to this season too. EtH has gone some way in repairing it but the sooner Ronaldo is gone the better.
Some are, but the ones that have mentioned Ronaldo specifically have been, generally, tier 1 in terms of reliability and veracity.
I feel like his ego would be too big to go there. Imagine PSG and Messi walking the league and smashing Marseille in the process.
We had two shit managers who couldn't galvanize our players to perform up to expectation. Not Ronaldo's fault. Nice try though.
It’s not Ronaldo’s fault entirely but he’s definitely a contributing factor (a large one imo). A player with his ego would inevitably upset the balance in a squad. Additionally it has a detrimental effect on our approach play. He had a similar impact at Juve when he was there. They went from winning league title after league title to not winning any in his last two seasons there. We went from 2nd and an EL final to 6th and our worst season statistically. You do the math.
I disagree! Marseille have a decent team and he’ll massage his scoring stats nicely- probably pick up another two or three Champions League goals to put Messi to bed!
That may be your opinion, but there's no evidence of it. The player who even in his older age was one of our top performers isn't the problem. Having terrible managers who spent the year drowning in their own incompetence was what defined our season last year.
Your manager told the media why
How about - your owners, who tend to view their business´through the commercial lens, fear for lower revenues, as they might have struck commercial deals where having Ronaldo was used to get a better bargain. I have no doubts the Glazers would sleep a lot better with Ronaldo being an undisputed starter. I also believe EtH would love to have a player like him available as some kind of impact sub, but we all know how realistic that is. Bottom line his playing style, his non-commitment to doing some actual work on the field is an anathema to any squad that wants to play modern football at the highest level. That is why your most successful striker was benched in such a high stakes game.
He is a problem now because he doesn't press. We need a completely different style of play to integrate him, and EtH is not going to do that. It's quite simple really.
No, there’s plenty of evidence. Ronaldo was in the bottom quadrant in terms of final third pressures, running distance, sprints, and ball carrying for last season. He might have scored goals but goals scored is too basic and unintelligent of a way to judge a player’s worth to a team. Especially for a team wanting to play a certain way, which Ronaldo is incapable of.
If Marseille is his only option, he might as well sail off into the sunset and sign up for Miami or LA in the MLS.
Then surely ETH would be trying to sell him or move him on in some way, and yet he hasn't. In fact he's continually reinforced his view that Ronaldo is part of his plans because he's Ronaldo (which is self-explanatory). Therefore your hypothesis seems to run into the inconvenient fact that the manager has wanted him here from the beginning (which in this case isn't a rumor, there are plenty of actual on camera quotes from ETH on this topic).
If he wants to be released we can cancel the contract with both sides agreement no?
He's capable of pressing. Further, I don't think that will be the foremost thing on the manager's mind. He will look at the goals he needs to actually improve our table position and get us into the CL. Having the greatest CL player of all time is a benefit not an impediment in this regard.
Family emergency ?
Yea, mutual termination seems the best approach. I think by Ronaldo hanging on it means he can get close to the £500k mark at his new club (or he’ll still get £500k if he stays). If he’s a free agent, there won’t be a lot of clubs lining up to get anywhere near that.
Managers say plenty of things to the cameras that are at odds with what happens behind the scenes. When Real Madrid came for Ronaldo, Fergie said he wouldn’t sell them a virus. Can you guess what happened next?
One pressing per game is not capable of pressing. I hope you really don't believe that Ronaldo is going to press with the intensity the team used on Monday. And yes, it is the foremost thing on his mind since that how he views playing the game of football. I think you have not yet come to terms that Ronaldo is not what he used to be.
I think he would had scored a lot of those chances and is better than the likes of Rashford despite being older. Then it was a good win for the team, they could be more clinical but this should help to boost the confidence and morale of the team. If there are more reliable options aside from Ronaldo then it makes easier to bench him, allow him to rest and not being overdependent on him.So that definitely didn't happen
I'd say a manager going on public record about a topic is far more informative than internet rumors by people who gossip for a living. If Ronaldo wanted to leave and ETH thought he was surplus to requirements, then the contract would've been terminated weeks ago.
The intensity of Monday did not exist in the previous two games where Ronaldo wasn't (or was barely) involved either. So we can say that it was a team effort and not the addition or subtraction of one player into the lineup.
He played the full game against Brentford.
Not true. He's on 375k a week since we failed to qualify for the CL.
Haven't seen the post match presser?
