I am curious to see how some members on this forum (who love both Ronaldo and Allegri) will rationalize this one:
typical no news. a good 2 years after allegri left, BOOOM, clamoroso! typical italian bs.
ronaldo isn't blocking anything. the club simply spent the money on some below par players, even after ronaldo was signed. since cr's arrival, we bought bonucci, cancelo, perin, emre can, pellegrini, demiral, ramsey, rabiot, mckennie, chiesa, de ligt, rovella, kulusevski, and i probably forget some others too. out of this bunch, chiesa and de ligt were unquestionably good signings. we also extended contracts like there's no tomorrow, and out of those players, rugani was loaned out, mandzukic was forced out, bonucci and szczesny have extremely high salaries. meanwhile, we sold spinazzola and kean, two homegrown players who'd cost next to nothing compared to the above bunch, wouldn't take anyone's place, and could be useful additions to the current squad.
give this team two midfielders with actual balls and physical presence instead of two of rabiot/ramsey/bentancur, a healthy dybala/morata/kean trio up front, spinazzola as a proper attacking option on the left, and we'd walk the league even with pirlo. we could have it all within our current budget. but but but ronaldo.