Ronaldo Has Left - He's gone and it's the past.

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They might have been suspicious given he'd spent most of the summer trying to find a new club, what did he really expect the club to do in that situation?
Despite Ronaldo's disrespect to the club in this circus..the issue surrounding his daughter is the one thing if true that makes the board at united look like a bunch of wankers.

To have one of your twins die then have the other in hospital is horrendous and transcends the game of football.

For the club to doubt this is unforgivable...if true...however to lie about that would be unthinkable...

Doesn't excuse the other stuff but this part is bigger than football and if my employer thought I was using my child as an excuse I would be going defcon 1
 
I don't for a second believe the club didn't believe him. But it was his decision to cover it in secrecy and allow the rumours to start. He then didn't shut the rumours down when he could and he's now making excuses.

The guy doesn't have an ounce of decency in him. We are talking about a man who paid women to have his kids and give them up because he liked their gene pool. He's trying to save face with that statement and I'm buying none of it.
 
He’s going for the full bingo card of insults - he’s insulted former players, the owners, the current manager, the old managers and the facilities. More to come I’m sure - no-one is safe!
 
Sure the players are as pissed at him as much as we are as fans. He will not be welcomed back to into our dressing room with open arms. But I guess the main aim of the interview was to get himself out.
 
He’s going for the full bingo card of insults - he’s insulted former players, the owners, the current manager, the old managers and the facilities. More to come I’m sure - no-one is safe!
This is so odd, he critiscised were are not moving forward and he has no respect for the manager, yet the manager is moving the club forward, massively, and a big aprt of that was not playing players on name. He said the club has stagnated fascilities wise, but the club have just hired a specialist to look into updating Carrington and redevelop OT. We all know it's happened, but the question is is something being done, and it is.

He's had a pop at Rooney and Neville. It's pathetic schoboy stuff, what exactly did either of them say that's so bad, that he's not as good as he was and united play better without him? look at the performances mate.

I really don't understand what he wanted to gain. We know he wants to leave, but I'm sure united would have let him walk away for free if they just broke the contract.

And most laughable, he's critiscised that the club are not about sport but marketing!!!!! Ronaldo, criticising a company for being marketing based, it doesn't get any more ironic does it
 
Despite Ronaldo's disrespect to the club in this circus..the issue surrounding his daughter is the one thing if true that makes the board at united look like a bunch of wankers.

To have one of your twins die then have the other in hospital is horrendous and transcends the game of football.

For the club to doubt this is unforgivable...if true...however to lie about that would be unthinkable...

Doesn't excuse the other stuff but this part is bigger than football and if my employer thought I was using my child as an excuse I would be going defcon 1

I dunno mate if you go back in time to when all that stuff come out you'd be right to be suspicious and Utd never let slip the reason, they made it very clearly publicly that he'd been given permission to miss the per season tour due to a personal reason.

It's quite clear that there was a breakdown in trust between employer and employee last season and both sides are to blame for that. That story stinks of a Monday morning call to your boss because you went a bit to hard on a Sunday. They might let it slide once but they aren't going to tolerate it every week.

Last season from memory twice Ronaldo went back to Portugal with an "injury" after he found out he was going to be on the bench. Once for the Manchester derby and another game I think something similar happened. There were no fines and Utd backed him in public and covered up the story.

Given he's spent months through the press making it quite clear he wants to leave it would only be natural to smell a rat. The story turns out to be true and Utd allow him to miss the pre season tour and return 7 days before the season starts.

All of this aside what that mans been through in the last 12 months mentally is enough to break most people. To lose a child must be horrible a pain only those who've been through could possibly imagine and after suffering that loss you won't be the same again. For it to happen just as your career is coming to an end again is a double whammy effect.
 
We've only just got rid of the perennial pantomime that was Pogba and now we've got this bugger playing up all season long! He's had his day and we'll be well rid.
 
I dunno mate if you go back in time to when all that stuff come out you'd be right to be suspicious and Utd never let slip the reason, they made it very clearly publicly that he'd been given permission to miss the per season tour due to a personal reason.

It's quite clear that there was a breakdown in trust between employer and employee last season and both sides are to blame for that. That story stinks of a Monday morning call to your boss because you went a bit to hard on a Sunday. They might let it slide once but they aren't going to tolerate it every week.

Last season from memory twice Ronaldo went back to Portugal with an "injury" after he found out he was going to be on the bench. Once for the Manchester derby and another game I think something similar happened. There were no fines and Utd backed him in public and covered up the story.

Given he's spent months through the press making it quite clear he wants to leave it would only be natural to smell a rat. The story turns out to be true and Utd allow him to miss the pre season tour and return 7 days before the season starts.

All of this aside what that mans been through in the last 12 months mentally is enough to break most people. To lose a child must be horrible a pain only those who've been through could possibly imagine and after suffering that loss you won't be the same again. For it to happen just as your career is coming to an end again is a double whammy effect. I also recommend looking at this site - BetPokiesNZ - here you can find gambling establishments in New Zealand in which you can have a good time.
Ronaldo is already quite old to play effectively. Undoubtedly, he is the greatest star of football, but the time for his leave has come.
 
Ronaldo is already quite old to play effectively. Undoubtedly, he is the greatest star of football, but the time for his leave has come.

I don't disagree he should have left in the summer but with all the change going on Utd just didn't have the budget to buy a new striker and at the same time it was pretty clear no one really wanted him.

I just think he's struggling to cope with that fact.

You compare him to Zlatan who last season was happy to take a more back seat role as a senior figure in the Milan side that won the league or the type of role Giggs/Scholes had to play in their final seasons. Ronaldo just can't accept that he isn't the main man anymore.
 
He's a brat who has been allowed to behave like a brat for years by all those around him because they earn from him. I magine he's the ype of person I'd tell to F off about 10 mins after meeting him

How Piers Morgan can call himself a journalist by letting all those comments go unquestioned just goes to show how much of a Ronaldo PR exercise that was.
 
It's client journalism. Piers I think has sniffed out a bit of vulnerability in a famous superstar who's struggling with the press a bit and got his hooks into him, that is what he's made a career out of doing. He's spent years cultivating that relationship and now he gets that pay off.

It's basically what he tried to do with Meghan Markle but she sent him packing because she knew exactly what he was up to and ever since he's had a huge vendetta against her.

It isn't journalism it's Ronaldo's story told by Ronaldo there's no challenge to any of what we've seen so far it's clearly been done in a way where they've had a chat about what Ronaldo wants to say and Piers is writing the questions to fit the answers.

It's very Trump in it's tone from what we've seen so far he is taking cheap shots at people based on their looks, accusing them of being jealous of his success and refusing to take any criticism that comes his way even when it's valid.

I don't see Utd responding to it in any way until the lawyers have been through it and they will want the fall out to be dealt with in house. Mutual termination of his contract with immediate effect is what I suspect they'll be looking for.
 
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The irony of him accusing young players of not respecting their older team mates. You literally stormed off down the tunnel because you weren’t brought on as a sub! What an absolute twunt!
 
I watched the actual interview and to be honest it was boring, part 2 tonight.

Absolutely no push back on anything from Morgan he just had his tongue up the mans backside for the whole hour.

Funny he named Dalot who's a client of his agent who is currently after a new contract.
 
as soon as you start banging on how better looking you are compared to someone else your argument is shot to bits.

I don't think many united fans (not ronaldo fan boys) will take this very well. And I doubt many of his team mates will either, really dropped a sack of mess on the group
 
I think he said that stuff about his looks as a joke to be honest, it probably didn't come across that way. I took it as a throw away comment from him that Piers led him down the road on.

His comments about Rooney being jealous that his career ended in his early 30's was seriously. He's clearly hurt by his former team mates having negative things to say about him so he's using this as his platform to respond and call them out. The difference is Rooney probably couldn't care less about the digs Ronaldo is having at him as he doesn't take stuff like that personally.

I don't even recall Rooney being that vocal about him and it's only been this season where Neville has started to criticise him. His main reason for criticising him was over his silence during the summer where he was clearly trying to move away from the club.

All that comes across is he can't take criticism which we all knew was the case. Ronaldo clearly has been programmed to think anyone criticising him is just jealous and that is how he deals with the flack he takes.

He pretty much admitted that he'd have signed for City if Utd hadn't come in for him, he was prepared to cross that bridge for the sake of his career.

Behind the scenes things are a mess and the club is 10 years behind what Madrid and Juventus are doing because they've stood still.

He clearly doesn't rate the people making the decisions at the club Woodward, Arnold, Murtough & Fletcher seem to be the ones he's having pop at.

He had a dig at young players in general including the young players at Juventus saying they don't have the same work ethic his generation did which is a classic trait of a person who's struggling to come to terms with getting old.
 
I think he said that stuff about his looks as a joke to be honest, it probably didn't come across that way. I took it as a throw away comment from him that Piers led him down the road on.
Piers got exactly what he wanted from the interview, he played Ronaldo like a fiddle. Not that justifies anything that was said but he was definitely lead down certain paths with his answers. He was a prat for doing the interview in the first place, so deserves all the criticism he is getting.
 
I'm definitely not a fan boy but have to say those of us who want the Glazers out of our club (which I assume is most fans) should be happy that a serving player has had the balls to call them out.

For the club to remain stagnant and decaying for 13 years while these pigs milk it like a cash cow is more hurtful than what Ronaldo says about Rooney or anyone else in my opinion.

I think we are getting distracted by the sensationalism and we should be hoping that this puts more pressure on those Glazer scumbags who have ruined our great club. We have fallen behind and now we have it confirmed why. We can't compete with the best clubs in Europe with an archaic infrastructure.

Ronaldo is wrong to say anything personal about an individual in this way however if you're criticised then you have the right to reply...that's just life...we all know he is using this interview to force his contract to he terminated...it's just theatre.

In my view this interview is worthy of a big eye roll and a tut....but then we unite to get the Glazers out. No one is bigger than the club so that's where my focus is.
 
Piers got exactly what he wanted from the interview, he played Ronaldo like a fiddle. Not that justifies anything that was said but he was definitely lead down certain paths with his answers. He was a prat for doing the interview in the first place, so deserves all the criticism he is getting.

I wouldn't give him that credit he would have been told by Ronaldo what questions he wanted asking and what he wanted to say.

Piers I think lead him a bit on Rooney/Neville but Ronaldo went into that "interview" wanting to talk about that topic.

As in interviewer you have to ask the difficult questions and push back on the answers you are given which he didn't do at all. He was basically reading out questions that were all agreed in advance and he didn't answer any follow up questions.

It's basically a terrible attempt at propaganda by Ronaldo but everyone can see straight through it and he's rightly being hammered for it. It was basically two people reading off a script.

Utd wont want this to get to messy in courts which a contract termination would likely end up being. They need to look for mutual termination where Ronaldo doesn't receive a pay off but basically becomes a free agent on 1st January and can sign for whoever he wants.
 
I'm definitely not a fan boy but have to say those of us who want the Glazers out of our club (which I assume is most fans) should be happy that a serving player has had the balls to call them out.

For the club to remain stagnant and decaying for 13 years while these pigs milk it like a cash cow is more hurtful than what Ronaldo says about Rooney or anyone else in my opinion.

I think we are getting distracted by the sensationalism and we should be hoping that this puts more pressure on those Glazer scumbags who have ruined our great club. We have fallen behind and now we have it confirmed why. We can't compete with the best clubs in Europe with an archaic infrastructure.

Ronaldo is wrong to say anything personal about an individual in this way however if you're criticised then you have the right to reply...that's just life...we all know he is using this interview to force his contract to he terminated...it's just theatre.

In my view this interview is worthy of a big eye roll and a tut....but then we unite to get the Glazers out. No one is bigger than the club so that's where my focus is.
nobody wants the Glazers, and we all know the club has been left to rot. But to call them out on it at the moment they are actually doing something is scraping the barrel. They've just upgraded the gym and the pool, and they have hired a specialist who is looking at OT and Carrington.

I'd rather he just slag off all owners like them, and the country owned clubs. He's basically used the glazers name to try and get fans on side and it's backfired badly. He thought it would unite the fans with him, that's the only reason he said that. I'm sure he looked around the club before he signed his 500 grand a week wage and saw there was no change.

He criticised the manager who is doing a fantastic job, and really it could undermine his authority by doing so. ETH is actually the best thing to happen to united for years. To try and derail that by saying you have no respect for him, because he dropped you is pathetic. You can't sit there and say you love united when you are trying to undermine the club for personal gain.

He said 3 players, out of a squad of 25 are the only ones trying. How does that make the other 21 feel.

To disown Neville and Rooney, when you see what they actually said is also terribly sad. It really wasn't that bad.

And Keane has his tongue right up Ronaldo's arse, I doubt it's a coincidence Keane said two weeks ago the club are disrespecting him and now Ronaldo says it. Why have the club disrespected him exactly? by not picking him? We go back to ETH here, at last we have a manager who has the cahooners to own the playing staff and pick what is the best team.

There have been rumours of Ronaldo being disruptive since he arrrived, same at Juve. He didn't want to play for Ragnick because he didn't agree with him ffs. Now Ragnick was awful, but you're being paid 500 grand a week to play for the club. Just do as you're told don't trot about like you're the most important thing at the club, you're not, it's the manager
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Keane is on Ronaldo's side because of how he left the club and how he feels he was treated on the way out. Keane had a very similar experience where he became a burden to a young side because he couldn't accept that age had caught up to him and for the club to move forward he needed to leave. Keane will argue he was tossed on the scrap head by the manager but Fergie will argue he'd become a disruptive influence.

The two situations are very similar and it's vital that we get the same outcome where the manager wins this battle and is backed by the club. The days of players running the dressing room has to end and it looks like it has.

We signed him as the final piece to the Ole jigsaw he was supposed to be the signing that moved us from 2nd to 1st but it didn't work out and Ole was gone, it was a plan that failed spectacularly and many people saw it coming. There was no backup plan in place the club didn't want the short term fix which was Conte and with a huge overhaul of the squad coming that summer they decided to write off the rest of that season and reset this summer. I can see why that would annoy Ronaldo he hasn't got time to burn in his career he needs to win now he wasted a season at Utd putting up with a mess that wasn't really his fault.

That reset was never going to involve Ronaldo as a key part of it and it sounds pretty obvious that Utd/Ronaldo both wanted to part ways this summer but they couldn't find a solution.

His agent tried everyone the only one that seemed legit was Chelsea but Utd probably didn't want him to join a direct rival which is a reasonable position. I'm not sure that move would even appeal massively to Ronaldo as it was clear the manager at Chelsea didn't want him there.

He doesn't care about the fans or the club he cares about himself always has and always will. We all know that the reason you put up with it is because he delivers 40-50 goals a season now that he no longer does that no one will put up with it but he's so blind he doesn't realise that.
 
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City have said the claim he was close to joining them is BS. They showed an interest but decided to wait for Haaland
 
Who approached who for this interview? Was it a case of Ronaldo seeking Morgan out because he had to get this off his chest and needed an outlet, or did Morgan's people seek Ronaldo out after his comments in the summer about having things to say, and though it could invigorate the show which is apparently not doing particularly well? I know they're equally as sycophantic as the other, but somebody made the first move thinking it was in their best interests, and I think it'd explain a lot.

The stuff he said about about the Glazers is completely irrelevant. It's like getting caught in bed with another woman and then complaining that your missus leaves the bathroom a mess in the morning. The Glazer complaints were just as valid last season, yet he waited until now to say anything? If he felt that strongly about it, perhaps the Liverpool protests might've been a good time to pipe up? What's changed this season that has suddenly loosened his lips on the state of the infrastructure? His goal tally you say? Oh i see.

He used United to get fit for the World Cup, pulled timely stunts to make himself the centre of attention and appear relevant, had enough fan boys in the press to "support" the fallacy that he still can deliver on the pitch, and for whatever reason has decided to burn everything on his way out.
 
100% Ronaldo approached Morgan.

He’s kept his silence for months we’ve barely heard a word out of him all season and he’s waited until the games finished to tell his side of all these stories.

It was an attempt at PR spin that has backfired spectacularly pretty much everyone agrees he’s come out of it looking like the bad guy.

Some reports are Utd may not only terminate his contract they may also seek damages. My guess is that is a threat they don’t wish to follow through with they will want a quick settlement and all parties move on.
 
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His interview did him no favours whatsoever, he just came across as an egotistical disruptive muppet. And who is going to pay £500k a week for that?
 
He can forget £500k a week he'll be lucky to find a club willing to pay him £100k a week.

Unless he suddenly turns it on at the world cup and shows us a hint that there's still a player in there I just can't see who would be willing to buy him.
 
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