Cristiano Ronaldo (141 Viewers)

Apr 29, 2006
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TBH, I still fail to see the big picture of CR7's arrival. Yes, I know about his online presence and so forth. But if that was the entire point we could have signed Brad Pitt. I suppose on-field success was where the stakes were at. Surely COVID was not expected, and with hindsight we wouldn't have pulled it off...

Anyway still don't understand the point of trading players, without a significant upgrade of the team's quality and then putting a CR7 in front to solve it all.

The owners must either choose to continue the short term project 'Win CL win CR7' or start building a younger team. Either way it will cost a lot, but thats the norm these days. I am talking about the CL in particular - Italy we could probably handle as we are.
 

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Apr 19, 2007
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TBH, I still fail to see the big picture of CR7's arrival. Yes, I know about his online presence and so forth. But if that was the entire point we could have signed Brad Pitt. I suppose on-field success was where the stakes were at. Surely COVID was not expected, and with hindsight we wouldn't have pulled it off...

Anyway still don't understand the point of trading players, without a significant upgrade of the team's quality and then putting a CR7 in front to solve it all.

The owners must either choose to continue the short term project 'Win CL win CR7' or start building a younger team. Either way it will cost a lot, but thats the norm these days. I am talking about the CL in particular - Italy we could probably handle as we are.
Im not convinced it will be expensive if we get rid of him. (under 100 mil)
We have a few players that we can sell and with ronnie leaving the total money spent in 3 years will even out. We already have a great spine thats young in this team. We just need a few quality starters that can be financed with Ronaldo money and a sale or two of bench players
 
Apr 29, 2006
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Im not convinced it will be expensive if we get rid of him. (under 100 mil)
We have a few players that we can sell and with ronnie leaving the total money spent in 3 years will even out. We already have a great spine thats young in this team. We just need a few quality starters that can be financed with Ronaldo money and a sale or two of bench players
Maybe, if we sign the right 'normal' players. But we have too many holes to cover, we've done it with freebies so far and it doesn't work that well. We need to sign one to three WC potential players, while trying to keep those that we cannot effectively (90+%) replace on the cheapo. That's a lot of money. And since we would need to fill around 5 spots - that's two years at the very minimum spending tons of money. That is if there is the right player available.
 

campionesidd

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Mar 16, 2013
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Great idea, let's sell the guy who's scored over 100 goals in 3 seasons and build the team around glass man Dybala.
We shouldn’t build around either of them. Ronaldo will be here for one year max and Dybala isn’t very young anymore. He will be 28 this year, and hasn’t shown any signs of progress in the last 2-3 years.
I’d sell them both and build the team around Chiesa, De Ligt and Donnarumma.
 

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Aug 13, 2013
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Mario Sconcerti (Journalist of Calciomercato):"I think Allegri would make a quick change with United between Pogba and Ronaldo."[CM]
 

Adrian

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Jan 31, 2003
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We shouldn’t build around either of them. Ronaldo will be here for one year max and Dybala isn’t very young anymore. He will be 28 this year, and hasn’t shown any signs of progress in the last 2-3 years.
I’d sell them both and build the team around Chiesa, De Ligt and Donnarumma.
Dybala won MVP the season before last...can we acknowledge that before this season he performed well for us, hence the 75 goals or so under allegri.

But point taken regarding his age...which isn't really that old. Agree that chiesa de ligt and donnarumma is a good young base to build off. But they still need quality around them.
 

rainhard

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May 5, 2004
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I can see free loan to PSG, PSG pay the salary

We get free loan Icardi + option between 35-50m. Probably low than that if it is obligation and we pay Icardi salary

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