It's Getting Ridiculous.
I think it's getting ridiculous the amount of disrespect Manchester United are pushing toward Ronaldo's way. I know he disrespected the club by stating he wants to go earlier in the season but I think that's understandable based on his age and where he wants his legacy and career path to be after seeing how badly the team played last season and how he did his bit for the team. It's insane to see you pay a huge fee for Ronaldo weekly without letting him go only to keep him on the bench despite knowing how much he takes home weekly.
If this is some sort of punishment for coveting other clubs in the summer and not turning up then I would say Manchester United lacks class just as Ibrahimovic has said. It makes no business sense when he goes home weekly with such a huge amount of money only to have him on the bench. It clearly shows how the structure at Manchester United has been terrible for this to happen. They should have let him go when they had the chance and now, they would be forced to do that in January. For a team that is meant to be rebuilding, I don't think it makes sense to have all sorts of distractions around such a team.
It's crazy how a lot of people keep shouting he can't press. Ronaldo has always been like this. He waits for his chance and scores. He isn't doing anything different than he has done over 10 years ago, so why are you expecting to teach an old dog a new trick? Anyone willing to waste much time on that isn't smart at all and this is why I said they should have allowed him to go when he wanted to so they can focus on the rebuilding process. I feel Erik Ten Hag wants to show who is the boss with how he is treating him and I have no problem with him showing who is the boss but when you know you don't need a player, you don't keep them around... Guardiola would never do that. He would get rid of you the chance he gets.
We say a lot about a team that doesn't score even if they press so much and now we are having a problem with a player that scores but because he doesn't press? A good coach would adapt his style of play to suit the players at his disposal especially when he doesn't have the team to suit his style of play. This is what a lot of people don't recognize about Mourinho yet, he plays to the strength of his team. Rather than change the whole team, he would find the easiest tactic to use and then buy a player or two to strengthen that position. He was abused for being defensive at Chelsea but we saw how exciting his team can be especially with Real Madrid.
I don't think anyone criticized Ruud Van Nistelrooy for not pressing, rather they praised him for being clinical. Every player is different and it's about the value they bring to the team. When you have a player that guarantees you between 20-25 goals a season, I think it's about asking others to rise to the occasion so he can also deliver on his end. The current situation at Manchester United doesn't make sense to me and I won't pretend it makes sense.
If it's about pressing we want to talk about, Rashford doesn't even run back, he doesn't press as much as we wanted and yet he keeps starting every game. This is why I said it's a power tussle at play and for a team that is rebuilding, this is a massive distraction and Manchester United is not being smart at all about this. Having the right player around Ronaldo, he would always deliver. I think if this is being done to Messi, a lot of people would speak more about it but since it's Ronaldo, based on his image and how he acts sometimes, it's easier for people to say, "Oh, he deserves it." Let's talk about value and stop choosing sides...let's talk about his addition to football and not just about the debate.
He's going into the tail end of his career and you don't try to ruin his legacy like this. He has worked too hard to have this done to him. I was one of the people that spoke about how he disrespected Manchester United when he said he wanted to go and how he didn't show loyalty, so I am not here to defend him but looking at his sporting career over the years. It's not nice to steal the last part of his legendary career when they should have let him go instead.
As a striker, it's his responsibility to score while the coach finds the right player to pick up the lapses. He did what he was expected to do last season yet he still got blamed. Others didn't do what they are expected to do and yet they got passed over as all the blame rested on Ronaldo. I think it's madness and we have to be honest about this. It's clear that we bought a nuclear weapon with Ronaldo and we don't know how to use him. He didn't come back to be sat on the bench in a Manchester derby.
Imagine a 37-year-old scoring 25 goals a season and the young lads are not even getting 10 goals...this says a lot about the quality of the team than it says about Ronaldo. We can say they won some games without him but that doesn't make Manchester United magically good because there were games we played without him too and still got hammered.
This situation is not good for the mental state of Ronaldo and they are doing more harm than good to him and it all started when they failed to let him go.
Thank you for your time.
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I wish i can reply with a voicenote. This what exactly what i was telling a friend on WhatsApp yesterday but he kept on defending ETH's action. The annoying part was that Ronaldo was asked to warm up and he jog around only to be asked to sit back. He's quiet because he won't want the media to blame his behavior as the reason for the dressing room disunity.
I told him Ronaldo has been like this from Madrid but he said I'm lying. Ronaldo doesn't press much but he will deliver the goals for you. He isn't the first 37 year old to be active , in fact he is the fittest at that age so i see no reason why he shouls be treated in this manner.
My friend ended up saying I'm a Ronaldo fan that's why I'm supporting him.
Your friend obviously doesn't know football or he doesn't watch much or he is a Messi fan. Nothing makes sense to Messi fans. I don't even bother engaging them. For what Ronaldo has done in football, he doesn't deserve to be treated that way. They should have let him go when he asked to. It's not fair at all. He has always been this way and I don't know how they want him to start pressing all of a sudden.
I'm not a Man Utd fan but I felt for them and Ronaldo yesterday. He was pitiable the few times camera gazed at him.
Maybe Ten Hang has a good reason for not starting him yesterday but we all expected him to come up by 60mins or so but he was still benched. I don't really know what's happening whether it's display of 'bosship' by the coach because he was seen warming up but later moved to bench.
I'm feeling for the young man
I think ETH is trying to act like the boss. He shouldn't have said he wanted Ronaldo to stay if this is how he would be treated. It's disheartening. He should have let him go.
Ten Hag said he didn't want the match to make record in Christiano Ronaldo's career and that is why he didn't play him in the second half. Hag may be right for that but the fact that he didn't play Ronaldo in the first half mean he just don't want to play Ronaldo in the match at all. If Ronaldo had played, I'm sure the match can't end in that poor result for Manchester United because the Manchester City defenders would fear Ronaldo and then won't join the attack. Let's just say Ten Hag didn't have faith in Christiano Ronaldo.
He's only saying that not to look bad because everyone has spoken about how unfairly he treated Ronaldo. Ronaldo has been at the receiving end of 5-1 in El Classico and still didn't change who he is. He should stop looking for excuses and let the man go in January.
You are right. Been wondering what concern him with Ronaldo's record. He think he can do it without Ronaldo in his first 11 of which the other coaches that left thought the same thing but later need Ronaldo
He's already annoying me jare. He looks clueless sometimes
There is a lot of stuff going on here other than whatever you see on the internet. A club isn't just a football club anymore in the 21st century, it is a multi billion dollar company which plays football as production.
Ronaldo has a distinct brand value. and the glazers family is all about business, so they won't sell him just to milk him.
But ten hag wants him gone, he is just saying random stuff in the media so he could save his head. and not everyone is Mourinho. Ten Hag sticks to a particular style, if you fit, you're in, not otherwise. and manchester united playing bad doesn't even include ronaldo, because he is no defender.
The team is clearly leaking goals, deploying ronaldo isn't gonna magically fix the defence.
That's what I want everyone to know because they keep saying that Ronaldo is the reason for the bad state. He delivered when he was called upon last season. The team is in a bad shape. They lack a clear direction but they would always need a fall guy and that's why they keep shouting Ronaldo. They need to fix the defence, get runners on the ball and then Ronaldo can deliver the goals they need.
Am not a United fan but I was one of the people who bashed him for wanting to bail out on the team. I didn’t understand what was happening at first and I didn’t understand why he wanted to leave at a time I thought the team needed him.
Now I realise he accessed the situation like he always does and then he decided it was best for him to find somewhere else to go. He didn’t make a lot of noise about leaving, he only asked the team to allow him go if a good offer came for and as you know it the media made a big deal out of it. He respected the club by asking for some days off to deal with family issues and I didn’t see anything wrong with that.
Even though he is sitting on the bench week in week out he’s still professional, he goes for training and never complains that he is not played. Rashford doesn’t press either so am confused as to what the coach wants now.
Thank you so much. You absolutely nailed this. Rashford doesn't even press and yet he keeps saying it's because Ronaldo cannot press. He keeps finding excuses not to use him and he should have allowed him go then. The coach is clueless. He has a nuclear weapon and he doesn't even know how to use him.