But there’s not much point spending the most wages in the league for a substitute. Doesn’t make any financial sense. And also there’s not much sign that Ronaldo accepts that gracefully, look at the Burnley game reaction.
Do you want Ronaldo to stay or to leave?
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He is not the biggest of our problems, far from it. I'll gladly enjoy another year with the GOAT. He will have 0 problems with ETH demanding routines.
Anyone wanting to ship out a 20 goal a season striker needs their head examined.
Going to get a different response in the poll putting it up five minutes after he's knocked in a hat trick than you would have at any point in the first three months of the year when he couldn't score for toffee.
A 38 year old isn’t our future? How insightful wise one.
See out his last year.
But we have been building a team for a decade.
I would argue the opposite, we would be idiots to keep him if the opportunity arose to get the money back. Ten Hag pitched a long-term plan, he’s 38 next year. Following season 39. Salary space isn’t unlimited, you can’t just carry £500k a week wages or whatever it is in a squad willy-nilly. Not even City or PSG do that. Every game he plays, a younger player who might be good in 2 or 3 doesn’t. Either building toward the future or not.
Stay, he's still our best player
Also due to the ridiculous covid regulation in HK, I haven't been able to go watch him at OT since he came back yet.
Also due to the ridiculous covid regulation in HK, I haven't been able to go watch him at OT since he came back yet.
He's been our best player this season, one of the best players of all time, and fans want him to leave 
I can't get my head around people voting leave after he's just injected hope and interest back into the season with a hattrick of vital goals.
I can't get my head around people voting leave after he's just injected hope and interest back into the season with a hattrick of vital goals.If he goes it will be double….
Well said, agree with all that except the blue part, Varane is a serial winner
He shouldn't be forced on ETH, let him decide if he can play a part or not.
Fans want him to stay, this forum operates on some other dimensions.He's been our best player this season, one of the best players of all time, and fans want him to leave
Leave. 14 year old kids will be safer at away games
Stay until he’s 80 years of age.
I thought it would be appropriate considering the rumors and ten hag all but confirmed as our manager
Too soon?
Would prefer him to leave in a ideal scenario. Today doesn't change anything. Since we're going to have no strikers if he does, he's going to have to stay.
I know there's no rook for emotive thinking or nostalgia here nowadays, but he made so many people happy. So many people were happy when he joined, when he plays, and when he scores. He is still good for us and has really lifted the squad in terms of accountability
I wish he stays forever man I love Ronaldo. He shouldn't have ever left.
I wish he stays forever man I love Ronaldo. He shouldn't have ever left.
Definitely stay. We need to get another striker in and rotate between the two of them. Physically he has another 2 years in him but he can't start every game. We have 17 players leaving this summer and people want to get rid of him for a 'clean slate'?
Ronaldo is a winner if nothing else and lord knows we need Winners in this squad.
Ronaldo is a winner if nothing else and lord knows we need Winners in this squad.
Leave. He is useful in minor games but against big clubs he is man less.
Stay. He is not the problem in our team.
A good manager can work around this
Stay. He's a legend
Who the hell can replace his goals. We have NO ONE! . Not Rashford, Not Blue Metal, not Martial and not any youth player. Unless we get fecking Haaland. No one can beat this guy on his worse day.
. Not Rashford, Not Blue Metal, not Martial and not any youth player. Unless we get fecking Haaland. No one can beat this guy on his worse day.People were saying his signing was a mistake, it was a fecking god send with the way the season has panned out
I want us to win so stay.
Who actually cares?
If him staying means we won't be buying top striker then he should leave because he is not good enough to lead the attack alone next season. If he is happy to play second striker to another striker, or if we can shoehorn him on the left next to a good striker then he is a decent option.
In any other scenario people hoping he will be our saviour next season should probably stop dreaming because he was far from that this season too. Scoring hat trick against worst teams in league and not being to hold the ball against any semi competent side doesn't make him our saviour. But fair enough, he was still mostly better than our rest shower of shite, which still isn't saying much.
If him staying means we won't be buying top striker then he should leave because he is not good enough to lead the attack alone next season. If he is happy to play second striker to another striker, or if we can shoehorn him on the left next to a good striker then he is a decent option.
In any other scenario people hoping he will be our saviour next season should probably stop dreaming because he was far from that this season too. Scoring hat trick against worst teams in league and not being to hold the ball against any semi competent side doesn't make him our saviour. But fair enough, he was still mostly better than our rest shower of shite, which still isn't saying much.
I don't know the full ins and outs of our financial matters but isn't there quite a good chance that Ronaldo's marketability offsets his wages quite a bit, i mean if we get an extra £400k a week in sponsorship as a result of having probably the most marketable player in the world on our team, it's really only costing us £100k a week to have him. Not saying these are accurate numbers but i don't think it's as easy as just saying he costs this much without looking at what he brings in
Problem with the question is nobody that prefers the latter actually "wants" it. What we want is for Ronaldo to go back to being worth the priority he commands in an attack but we know that isn't happening so it might be best to part ways.
Leave. We need to learn how to high press and we can't do that with a great big rock in the gears.
Stay if he doesn't mind not starting all games and definitely not playing 90 mins in almost every game. Which is impossible. He'll leave I reckon regardless if we want him or stay or not.
crazy after scoring a hatrick but leave unless he can accept a rotational role
If ETH can make him work in the system he wants to employ, then great but I just cant see it. We have to leave the emotion behind, the greater good of the team comes first.
Leave. He still scores goals, but he doesn't hold up the ball or link up well with other players. Our play in the final third has been poor this season.
Newbies nowadays are far more aggressive than what they used to be.
Except PSG are doing it, they have been carrying Messi this whole season who's been on the same pace this season as Ronaldo in a far easier league.
We get it, you dislike or maybe even hate Ronaldo for whatever reason/s.
But you're speaking like you know him personally that we won't accept reduced wages or that his wages even amount to 500k for the club after commercial value is deducted, or that he won't accept a reduced role either.
For all you know he might of been happy to not have played all the games he did but we were forced to play him because of various situations this season, I.e Cavanis injury list, Rashford a form falling off a cliff the last 3 years, Martial having no desire to play for the club and the other situation that is still ongoing.
He should stay, his experience, mentality and ability to win games is something we struggled to replace when he first left and may be even harder to replace now.
I vote Stay. I do want him to win something with us this second time around. However, the manager will need to convince him he can't play every game...
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