Let's see if Bayern are as keen.
Cristiano Ronaldo (I stay)
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
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Well most of the matches we were saved by Ronaldo and/or De Gea
Another mammoth Ronaldo leaving thread incoming.
Not bothered at all.
By all accounts, we've got £140m (plus sales, maybe) to spend and need a new left back, new right back, a centre half, at least two central midfielders, a left forward and now a 25 a season goalscoring number nine immediately ready to play 40-45 matches.
Martin Lewis couldn't make that budget and list of requirements work.
Ronaldo and Lewandowski swap is the only option I can see suiting us.
We don't have 80-100m to bang on a striker.
Yeah, but the thing is I think the expensive placeholding would have been a marriage of convenience for this season had Ronaldo been satisfied to stay. He gets paid a fortune, we get to assess what ETH requires from a striker. Even this forum is struggling to identify interesting forward options this summer and that's without being encumbered by a need for realism.
We'll be fine without him. Yes we'll miss him but if he wants to go let him.
And let's wait till end of window to judge if united are indeed a joke or have just been a slow burn
It does kinda suck but Ronaldo has always been about Ronaldo, it's kind of hard to be angry about him when we've seen it all before. The only way i'd be really annoyed is if he joined another English club but him leaving for a foreign club might be best for all parties. We'd get rid of a massive wage on our bill and start looking to the future and he gets his precious champions league record and the chance to better it.
If he thinks he's got a couple of years left maximum then good luck to him. His goals were basically the only exciting thing about last season.
If he thinks he's got a couple of years left maximum then good luck to him. His goals were basically the only exciting thing about last season.
In a dysfunctional team tbf.
Didn't see Rashford getting near those numbers.
I'm OK with him leaving but folks need to snap out of it and realize he needs replacing with a good CF.
I agree at the insanity of people being happy about this, but does playing a 38 year old striker suit eth’s style and can he bring the energy needed? If not and we get get someone in to replace would that might be a blessing in disguise? Enthusiasm and hunger etc
but I honestly get losing him would be a big hit with regards to the professionalism he shows the others, and our youth, week in week out. Flip side, I won’t miss him walking off the pitch with his hands in the air waving around like he’s not allowed to get subbed
Lewa won't join us let's be realistic.
Had a feeling this would happen with us missing out on CL. Disappointing news as I really wanted Ronaldo to help lead us into the new era under ten Hag.
I think others have made a good comparison to United with RVN versus Saha, though RVN was a better player who scored more goals, you had to build everything around him, and others on the team scored rarely. With Saha we were a better team.
Ronaldo is not a possession style, build up play striker, imho. He can do it, but it’s not what he’s best at.
We need a serious rebuild, this next season is for building, not for winning. Having Ronaldo for one more season doesn’t really solve any problem. We might miss him, but we’d have to replace him next summer anyway.
If the Lewandowski deal proves difficult, I wonder if Barcelona will sign Ronaldo with some of the De Jong money?
we scored more goals every season without RonaldoHilarious that this tweet is being posted on a RedCafe that thinks Bruno is shite and Rashford only gets games because he's English.
Now we apparently don't need to replace the output of the only guy who looked like scoring all season.
I'm not sure people understand this unfortunately.
We tend to spend about 80m net a summer.
We have next to no-one to spend as we managed to totally screw up Pogba/Lingard situations and let 100m of players go for free.
We're hoping (not even sure) that we can spend 60-70m on FDJ, and 15m on a reserve full back.
That's our budget.
Yeah, people magically forget many months where he was beyond shite, couldn't even handle first touch properly.
Goldbridge is sucking him off big time
I wonder how this affects the FDJ deal.
If he was a bit unsure before, this will not help.
If he was a bit unsure before, this will not help.
I wonder if this is why the kit was delayed? there would be a million #7 shirts returned if it was released yesterday.
Eriksen and FdJ looking on to the news as well....
Eriksen and FdJ looking on to the news as well....
He's angling for a move out of Bayern, so where will he go?
If he had a FDJ or Eriksen feeding him good passes he's still a goalscorer but presently he can't be fed passes by McT or Fred and Bruno and Sancho were not so good either.
Barca.
They weren’t dysfunctional until he arrived.
Absolute certainty.
I just really hope this news has been known to the club for a good while and didn't drop like a massive bombshell.
Isn't it supposed to be presented on the 8th? Very much doubt the Ronaldo problem will be solved by then
With players the Cafe just spent a season telling everyone who'd listen shouldn't be playing matches for Manchester United and a handful who won't kick a ball for us again.
Bahama Red if you’re still posting, you were here back in 08 and dominated that thread. Now’s you’re chance to roll back the years
They weren't exactly great either. Plus we still had a decent Martial and the hottest young prospect in the world on the right. Cavani was decent too.
I'd happily have us finishing 17th if that means we can get rid of that narcissist twat and let ETH build a young team and implement his football.
We weren't great either, but not as bad I admit.
Maybe it was largely on him, maybe not.
Either way, we need to replace him and the options are pretty awful.
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Let's just hope ETH can do the main part of the job and make the current players perform to a decent level.
I think most would agree to that but it's a fecking disaster in reality because there is a lack of options to replace him.
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