Come on man. He isn’t and won’t score 130+ goals in his stint here no matter how long that is. Rashford and Greenwood if they spend their entire careers here have a chance of breaking Rooney’s record.
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No he gets AWB’s spot since he can’t drive anymore.
I was thinking more match sharpness, considering he hasnt played much this season and hasnt had a proper pre-season.
Yeah but we have UCL starting up in a couple of weeks. He will be fine. He always looks after himself well. He has got plenty of games coming up over the next couple of months.
Is there a full first interview with him anywhere?
I agree to an extent; stylistically I’d much prefer a more fluid attack with everyone contributing an equal-ish amount of goals. Our 19/20 season was perfect in that sense with Mason, Martial, and Rashford all on 20+ goals in all comps + Bruno coming in midway in getting 10+.
Ronaldo will probably score a good portion of goals, and do well on an individual basis, but I do think it’s a step forward step back in terms of squad balance, attacking profiles etc etc.
… But then also, this is Ronaldo returning. Sensible analysis goes out the window a bit
Honestly, Rashford, Ronaldo, and Bruno are very similar players in that sense. They can coast through games with very low bottom levels, but then all of a sudden go overdrive and mask it up with important G/As.Like an old Rashford
He should've come home a few years ago. Dirty stop out! 
There is one is the MUTV app. 4-5m long.
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Was just coming to see if this had happened. Read Santos comments about it not making sense for him to travel around if he is not going to play.
If he hadn’t scored last night, he would be staying to play against Qatar.
Excellent that hes gonna be in early. Hopefully he starts training and we can have him start against Newcastle.
Flight trackers go!
Will be fun to see him training with Mengi, Jones, Heaton and Lingard whilst the main players are away.
This has to be one of Ronaldo's classics, that one yesterday.
Devastated that he’ll arrive too late to pop his Wednesday night against Stoke cherry.
Wow, im so happy hes headed here asap.
Absolute model professional !
Absolute model professional !
What a guy.
Called it when he took his shirt off! Broke the record, now time to finely tune himself in Manchester
That's alright. That's nothing new. Many genuine match winners have poor games only to come up with moments of brilliance to take their team over the line. Instead of accepting that, he seems to be digging his heels in that Ronaldo will struggle in the PL.
His first half was really weak and he seemed way too eager to get that record. In the second half, he was actually good and looked dangerous overall.
Not his greatest game ever but he was pretty decent in the second half while giving the victory to Portugal.
Not sure why some people are complaining about his performance.
What do we think the likelihood of him starting against Newcastle will be?
I’m thinking of travelling up, first game in a while after latest Baby arrived. Don’t want to miss him being unveiled and his first start.
If Ole doesn’t start him I’ll be gutted
I’m thinking of travelling up, first game in a while after latest Baby arrived. Don’t want to miss him being unveiled and his first start.
If Ole doesn’t start him I’ll be gutted
Yeah i saw it the same way. Poor first half, but grew into the game big time in the second half, and he created 3 or 4 pretty decent chances for himself.
He just needs the games for his fitness.
He's starting 100% imo. Especialy now we know he's coming back early to train.What do we think the likelihood of him starting against Newcastle will be?
I’m thinking of travelling up, first game in a while after latest Baby arrived. Don’t want to miss him being unveiled and his first start.
If Ole doesn’t start him I’ll be gutted
Ole already said 'He's not coming here to sit on the bench' when he was asked about Ronaldo and the Newcastle game.
Also the potential lift to the players, and fans in the stadium seeing Ronaldo walk out of that tunnel, well i just cant see him not starting.
Gotta start him; he's having a week off to train, already prepared by the looks of it, and everyone wants it. Imagine how anticlimactic it would be to sit him on the bench for his first United re-appearance!What do we think the likelihood of him starting against Newcastle will be?
I’m thinking of travelling up, first game in a while after latest Baby arrived. Don’t want to miss him being unveiled and his first start.
If Ole doesn’t start him I’ll be gutted
Lingard is actually away
Cheers guys. I agree, just needed a few other opinions on it.
Like you say, having this extra time to train and it would be so anticlimactic to not start him.
That’s me booked. I’ve waited long enough to see the man back in Red!
He may have to self isolate for 5 days once he gets to the UK
Thats interesting , do all players returning from international duty have to do this?
Is he not vaccinated?
Only if not fully vaccinated
I think he may not be, but not sure
Edit - or he may have had a vaccine which is not recognised by UK
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Some of the opinions on here are ridiculous.
Opinions like, "Poor first half, more lively in the second. Overallt not a good game but scored twice."
It just tells you the ridiculous expectations you have for a player like him. Cavani was by far our best No.9 before Ronaldo and Ronaldo IMO is couple of levels better, at everything. He's faster, better technique, better goal scorer, poacher, header of the ball, better striker of the ball, better att passing defenders. Literally everything Cavani would have done for us, Ronaldo is at least twice as good. He's the best No.9 in the league. Yes that means better than Kane, Lukaku etc. They don't have one year of outscoring him in his career.
If a player scores a goal in stoppage time it completely throws around the rating of his match performance. So, imagine scoring twice in stoppage time and turning the game around completely. There's three players that can do that. Messi, Ronaldo and Lewandowski. No one else is even close to their finishing. To think things like that "just happen" and to not include it in the complete match analysis is plain stupid. He did his job, won them the game, became the goat of international football and is coming home. Just relax and enjoy him scoring more than the rest of our front line combined.
Opinions like, "Poor first half, more lively in the second. Overallt not a good game but scored twice."
It just tells you the ridiculous expectations you have for a player like him. Cavani was by far our best No.9 before Ronaldo and Ronaldo IMO is couple of levels better, at everything. He's faster, better technique, better goal scorer, poacher, header of the ball, better striker of the ball, better att passing defenders. Literally everything Cavani would have done for us, Ronaldo is at least twice as good. He's the best No.9 in the league. Yes that means better than Kane, Lukaku etc. They don't have one year of outscoring him in his career.
If a player scores a goal in stoppage time it completely throws around the rating of his match performance. So, imagine scoring twice in stoppage time and turning the game around completely. There's three players that can do that. Messi, Ronaldo and Lewandowski. No one else is even close to their finishing. To think things like that "just happen" and to not include it in the complete match analysis is plain stupid. He did his job, won them the game, became the goat of international football and is coming home. Just relax and enjoy him scoring more than the rest of our front line combined.
Having watched the game from an Irish perspective it felt like he was playing at about 25% safe in the assumption his teammates could do enough to either score themselves or assist him. When this didn't happen and it looked like they would lose he went superhuman mode in the final ten minutes and scored two goals at the end to win the game - he's a freak.
He scored 101 goals for Juventus in 3 seasons and already has 118 for Manchester United. With a similar output, he would be around 220 goals by the end of the third season and that's 33 goals off from Rooney's total.
It's not impossible but it's not gonna happen either. I would be surprised if he achieved 200 total goals for us tbh.
We're all excited, but this hilariously silly.
3 seasons "minimum"?
He's 37 in Feb! You think he'll still be here at 39, and entering a 4th season turning 40? Come on.
And he'd need 50 goals a season to be beating Rooney, which even with the shocking defending in this league won't happen, as 42 was his max here in his world class B'allon D'or days.
We'd need to win the champions league for him to win another one of those.
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