In which he was the main reason why United was the strongest team in Europe, and likely the strongest United ever. Also, he got the first Ballon D'Or a United player got since Best 40 years before.
Always very impressed with their recruitment. This would be breaking the mould for them but you can see him being incredibly effective as a number 9 for them in their system. Whereas with United it hurts you head to think of fitting all our best players in the same team.
Agreed
His wage demand shows he's not serious about joing them.
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Those scales have already tipped in Ronaldo's favour following the 3 UCL's in a row and Euro 2016 wins but yeah lets not bring the Messi v Ronaldo debate in here - could get messy
He already succeeds in that. Proved it at Sporting, Man Utd, Real, & Portugal, whilst Messi has only proved himself at Barcelona surrounded by quality players. I know he has scored many goals for Argentina but never really made the difference in major trophies unlike Ronaldo & Maradona.
What are we missing now, to make it complete?
If that amount is after tax then it amounts to 60 million cost for the club. Only Arab oil money would likely pay those obscene amounts.
I came to post the exact sentence.
Haha yes,and perhaps some ambiguous post in Instagram,or an interview to his mother in A Bola
There is, he is human and not the Superman.
I get that and maybe Madrid are looking at the long game but Ronaldo will score 40 goals again next season wherever he plays, his age is having little impact on his current performances.
I don't agree with you on this 1.
They probably would have been forced to deny it because they have FFP over their heads a bit. And it would have created increased speculation on Mbappe/Neymar
Real Madrid? There are a lot of good players who can improve their team. Its the right time to start a mini rebuilding mode under Lopetegui. I don't even think the 2 would have a good relation between them. Better for both if he leaves.
Except the first half of last season you mean....
No striker no matter the age will come in next season and be better than Ronaldo though that's the bottom line isn't it. I mean they're winning nothing last season if Ronaldo isn't at Madrid and that will be the case next year.
you on the wind up here, hardly done anything for Sporting, and was good in like one of the games at the euro's and was poor the rest, just because the country won it, was not all down to him. if an Argentina player had put his penalty away at won stage then he would have a Copa America to his name.
300 in fee and 60 gross per year for Neymar. Yes he would. The main reason he don't wanna pay Cristiano 30 is 'cause of his age. The offer we made goes beyond that with bonuses, and the bonuses are performance related. Personally i don't like the idea of owing a 35/36 years old upwards of €40m('20/'21, current deal). Would gladly give him 100 milion for the next season, and then a much reduced wage(no more than 20m) with heavy performance related bonuses for the last 3(say 20+40 gross)
Don't think so. We're not gonna cave. And I don't think he will either, even if nobody offers him what he wants
4 league goals in the first 14 games. Last season was similar. Age is already having an impact
First 14 games? so what he finished the season on 44 goals and thats what matters. If he performed better in those first 14 games he would have had about 60 goals.....some huge decline that, Jesus.
Pun intended?
Don't agree.
Thats yet to be seen but he's literally just broke a CL record with 15 goals didn't he? he also had a decent world cup surrounded by a very average Portugal side, he can't carry them through every tournament the squad is terrible.Don't agree.
My point is I don't see any problem with what he does at 33, but even playing for Portugal I can see he can't do the same things he did 3 years ago. Nothing wrong with that, but would be very surprised if he can keep the same level for more than 2 years.
When I say same level, its Champions League level or International level, for me he should retire from the NT after 2020, don't want to hear the nonsense he will be on Qatar, some sort of portuguese version of Roger Milla.
Sorry but I don't believe on the mantra if he retires the team will not beat anyone, actually I think he sometimes makes the other players look average because everyone wants to play for him, not to mention we have to play a 4x4x2 just to take the best out of him. Quite frankly I want him gone after 2020, don't like Messiahs on the team.
Do you think he would accept a lesser role/status if it meant prolonging his international career? With his level of fitness, he could still do a job for you in 2022 (half an hour here or there to either win a match or help see it out).
No, it's really not. By December we were out of the title race in the league. Scoring 44 goals is all well and good, but when only 20 of those actually matter...
Going from 60 to 44 IS a decline, no matter how badly you want to pretend it's not
Not the point. He's 33, he's a visibly inferior player than what he was 5 years ago, his body doesn't hold up for more than half the season. And we're supposed to commit 60 millions for him for his age 33-34-35-36-37 seasons? He's already slowing down -big time compared to his best days- what happens if he has a cliff? What would we do with say 120 millions committed to a guy who's no longer good enough to sit on the bench? At the end of the day the club has to protect itself and its interests
What if next season he falls off a cliff? Or the season after? Whose gonna take him off our hands?
No, that's my main problem, don't see him doing a Klose for us in 2022, I think its time to start moving on with this mantra Ronaldo or Chaos.
