A no mark with broken knees who even Liverpool fans didnt particularly like.
Cristiano Ronaldo | Signs for United! Fcuk City
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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We won't finish 2nd, don't worry about that
Why not if we can? Why don't the owners not take dividend this year, and instead pay Ronaldo that money?
What does SIUUU mean? Seen it posted a few times
Mbappe to Real, Ronaldo to PSG.
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Still holding out hopes that happens but not optimistic at all, strange we weren't all over this when it looked like Edi was planning on heading back to Uruguay particularly with this potential situation of him missing a host of matches
Sigh... if a global pandemic can happen... if Barca can release Messi... then in this reality Cristiano can play for City. Feck.
I don't think Ronaldo wants to play on the same team as Messi. His galaxy-sized ego wouldn't that.
Dennis Law played for City, scored the goal that relegated us. I remember that moment well. He is still a player we all loved.
Feck it we should try and hijack this move with Edi likely to miss quite a few games to save our number 9 situation
I’m a little out of the loop here and this is off topic but why is Cavani likely to miss out on games?
To do with him wanting to play for Uruguay and needing to quarantine for 10 days afterwards, check out player thread for info
Ronaldo has always been about Ronaldo. He knows that goalscorers always get attention hence he has pretty much focused on that through his career.
BTW sorry to @RedRonaldo @SportingCP96 et al but if he does leave Juve, his time there will be considered a failure when all is said and done. Apparently according to you fanboys he had the ability to single handedly win the UCL but his time at Juve has overwhelmingly proven otherwise. People forget the other 10 world class players at Madrid who facilitated his tap ins.
The thing about Ronaldo (even in his prime) is that many a times he can be completely shit or anonymous all game but still score a hat trick. Than everything bad about his performance is forgotten. That is probably what makes him such a dangerous opponent even more than Henry; it's like playing against some two faced terrorist.
I remember our matches vs Madrid in 2013. We stopped him easily but he still managed to poach the all important goals in both legs. Ditto the Madrid matches vs Wolfsburg, vs Bayern, vs Atletico and United matches vs Liverpool in 08/09, Arsenal in 07/08 etc
BTW sorry to @RedRonaldo @SportingCP96 et al but if he does leave Juve, his time there will be considered a failure when all is said and done. Apparently according to you fanboys he had the ability to single handedly win the UCL but his time at Juve has overwhelmingly proven otherwise. People forget the other 10 world class players at Madrid who facilitated his tap ins.
Agreed interms of consistent threat in a game. I hated him and feared him when he played vs us. But now that le Arse are shit, I can accept it without issue.
The thing about Ronaldo (even in his prime) is that many a times he can be completely shit or anonymous all game but still score a hat trick. Than everything bad about his performance is forgotten. That is probably what makes him such a dangerous opponent even more than Henry; it's like playing against some two faced terrorist.
I remember our matches vs Madrid in 2013. We stopped him easily but he still managed to poach the all important goals in both legs. Ditto the Madrid matches vs Wolfsburg, vs Bayern, vs Atletico and United matches vs Liverpool in 08/09, Arsenal in 07/08 etc
Interms of all round play, they are and have never been at the same level but Ronaldo's goals and longevity mean the rest is ignored and he is rightfully considered one of the greats (top 5 or at worst top 10).
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The man scored 101 goals in 134 games and 22 assists.
He more then did his part.
He is responsible for 90% of their goals in the knockout rounds while he’s been their.
They got Ronaldo because he is the CL man. Nobody wins it or performs in it like him but then failed to make the team competitive.
Juventus failed him not the other way around. Weston, Ramsey, bernadeschi, bentsncur. Players that would not start in any top team in the world.
He performed very well and scored buckets of goals in a side that didn’t create many chances a game to begin with.
I get why people are worried. In Manchester City he will score goals for fun and he will be the X factor for them come CL time.
I genuinely dont get the love in for Ronaldo. He was a top top player and we got a few decent trophies with him in the team. The Ronaldo romance is mental though. He couldn't care less about us (he is about himself). He used United a few times for his own ends (new contracts). If he was a genuine red he would have stayed but he didn't and he isnt, he's a mercenery who's currency is new records and personal accolades. I will be surprised if he doesn't end up at PSG though as he hasn't won the french league. Just my two pence worth.
Umm who said this? Sounds like something messi fangirls made up again
has barca been winning it every year?Loosing to City feels like loosing to the legendary CPU in FIFA to me. It doesn't mean a god damn thing. They won the lottery and now they're winning some trophies, who cares. They don't feel like a real competitor to me, they're just a nice benchmark to aspire to on the pitch. But it is also a bit sad really, because the City fan didn't have a say in the matter at all, winning the lottery just happened to them. And deep down, all the wins must feel a bit hollow in some ways.
He was brought into a team that won 4 consecutive doubles and had reached 2 UCL finals in that 4 year stretch. They immediately regressed in every single competition as soon as he came in, and got progressively worse with each season until last year's catastrophe when they ended 4th in a one team league, and only climbed to 4th on the last day of the season when they benched him.
He will look for his goals, as he has always done, but at the expense of the teams and recent history has shown that his approach can harm his team.
The stint at Juventus is a failure in the eyes of every Juventus fan i know, and this next task with City will have to result in a UCL, otherwise it would be another failure. They've already wrecked the league. He's there to push them to another level. I suspect that Guardiola will get frustrated with the lack of pressing and teamwork, but that remains to be seen.
I don't think they are that far ahead on the pitch. Ole does OK against Peps City in matches. I just think they have better consistency over the course of a season..
Yeah by that sitting back and counter attacking
Not sure how that is a bad thing. You mean by scoring more goals than them?. Doesn't matter how you get them. Let's be honest. We raise our game to play City. To them it's just another match.
As tasty as it looks on paper in reality this setup is a nightmare fire every coach.
To bring these 3 monumental egos, who all want to be the start man, to perform as a team and also do some defensive work, and fight for the team is probably an impossible task for every manager. Let alone Pochetino who didn't achieve anything of notice yet when it comes to trophies.
Errr that’s a bit of a stretch. He spend 6 years at United, 9 years at Real and 3 years at Juventus… winning everything for every clubs he played for. You are making him sound like Ibra who was looking for a move every 2-3 years or so. Players you regard as bigger legend, such as Beckham (5 clubs), Best (over 9 clubs) etc were even worse. And then there were other legends like Law (4 clubs), Keane (4 clubs) who aren’t exactly better.
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I don't see Messi and Neymar as a big ego-players. Maybe Neymar, but when you compare them with Ronaldo, well, no one comes close.
Ronaldo won't go to PSG. Playing in the same team as Messi would destroy his image. Everyone would see the abysmal difference.
Ronaldo won't go to PSG. Playing in the same team as Messi would destroy his image. Everyone would see the abysmal difference.
He didn't.
Keane also didn't end Haaland's career.
Yep, SAF did it to barca. That's how you do it.
PSG made it clear they don't want him. He wouldn't want to be in Messi's shadow, anyways, in my opinion because it must be a blow to his ego.
Well if you want to be pedantic then technically it didnt relegate us as it wouldnt have mattered what the result was. It was however the last game of the season. So carry on being pedantic
Wouldn’t it be funny if he did this as a big wind up to City. They put all there efforts into getting him until last minute and he says no, so they don’t have time to get anyone else 
That would be ace but something tells me that he is doing this for himself. You know Ronnie.Wouldn’t it be funny if he did this as a big wind up to City. They put all there efforts into getting him until last minute and he says no, so they don’t have time to get anyone else
I simply don't get it why can't we go for Ronaldo. We need a striker and Martial is not a good Center Forward and Cavanni may not be able to play all the time. We can get Ronaldo and we are guaranteed goals and a winning mentality.
His wages can be addressed with the merchandise sale. I would prefer to swap Martial for Ronaldo. Martial is also one of top earners with bad return on goals. We can also have 25-30% of Sell on Clause if he performs better and any of the big suitors wants him in the future
His wages can be addressed with the merchandise sale. I would prefer to swap Martial for Ronaldo. Martial is also one of top earners with bad return on goals. We can also have 25-30% of Sell on Clause if he performs better and any of the big suitors wants him in the future
I wouldn’t wish him luck but I don’t harbour any hate towards him. It just a job for him either here or there. His dream club always been Madrid.
No wrong, we were already down on other results. Thought every United fan knew this
I agree with those who have said he is doing it to ‘out-do’ Messi and boost up his ego.
The problem is Law (Or to some extent Cole & Big Pete) gave top level service to United for their entire prime and went to City like some sort of lowly retirement home.
On the other hand, Ronaldo left us rather soon after he had become the player he is now. Even then in all these years United fans held him very close to their hearts. So now that presumed 'our boy' might join our bitter rivals particularly at the height of their power, feels like an entirely different level of betrayal.
Tbh I don't give a feck if he plays for City, he left us in his prime anyway. And watching him the last two years he's no longer the threat he was. Of course he'd score many goals for City, but only against the small teams which City gonna score loads against them with or without him anyway. I don't think he'd score in the big games, when it matters so big deal.
True, although we should get closer to double.
Lingard: £30M
Bailly: £30M
Pereira: £25M
Dalot: £25M
Tuanzebe: £20M
Chong: £15M
Jones: £10M
Mata: £5M or free.
That's, conservatively, £145-150M. That would fund Haaland's contract and release clause and we'd have some left over.
Nothing pedantic about it its fact the back heel goal and defeat did not put us down. Was not even the last match, last match was I think Villa and we lost that too.
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I stopped caring about Ronaldo the day he left United.
It will be a failure because the reason he was bought was to take them to another level. Instead they regressed loUmm who said this? Sounds like something messi fangirls made up again
He scores no doubt but he is the kind of player who needs ALOT of service and players around him to sacrifice their game. The moment that doesn't happen he is a liability. Just before he arrived, Juventus had reached the quarters of the UCL losing very narrowly to Madrid and had reached the final in the previous season. He did not improve them at all. The goal and assists stats don't tell the whole story.
I don't think people are worried that he will be the x factor etc; Citeh even without Ronaldo are strong favourites for the league and only very narrowly missed out on the champions league which they can win even without him; it's more like many United fans still support him and he has let them down by joining not only a direct rival but one from the same city; similar to joining Liverpool.
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