I made that point several time recently. And to me that's the most telling, his total record is pure stat padding.
I don’t think you really know the meaning of the phrase “stat padding.”
Almost all of Ronaldo’s goals were game winning or game tying goals. He seldom scored when United were up comfortably (did we even have any games like this last season?).
He always either scored the opener, the goal to tie the game or the winner.
Sure, he scored in a small proportion of games but you could attribute that to how poorly functional the rest of the team was. He had to work with scraps for the majority of the season. I’m not saying he wasn’t genuinely bad himself in periods but he wasn’t helped by the team either.
It’s funny how Maguire could be excused for how diabolical he was last season (with Ronaldo hilariously shouldering the blame from some people) but as soon as someone uses the same logic for Ronaldo (who genuinely had great games unlike Maguire) all hell breaks loose.