Cristiano Ronaldo (140 Viewers)

MikeM

Footballing Hipster celebrating 4th place with Tuz
Sep 21, 2008
12,850
Carried us....back to mediocrity.

Yesterday, I felt like I was watching a team for the first time since before he arrived. It was probably more managements fault than his own bringing him here, but I don’t miss him. Old Ronaldo never adapted, he still wants/needs clubs built entirely around him. Still wants to play out wide. Shame, because I feel like he could be a deadly #9 for years to come.
He overturned our Atletico UCL tie absolutely single-handedly.
 

Xperd

Allegrophobic Infidel
Jun 1, 2012
35,100
Carried us....back to mediocrity.

Yesterday, I felt like I was watching a team for the first time since before he arrived. It was probably more managements fault than his own bringing him here, but I don’t miss him. Old Ronaldo never adapted, he still wants/needs clubs built entirely around him. Still wants to play out wide. Shame, because I feel like he could be a deadly #9 for years to come.
We became mediocre because of Tici, Nedved and Agnelli's incompetency, not because of Ronaldo.

We threw squad planning out of the window the moment we signed him but he shouldn't be blamed for any of this at all. Our management simply should've known better.
 

Post Ironic

Senior Member
Feb 9, 2013
42,253
We became mediocre because of Tici, Nedved and Agnelli's incompetency, not because of Ronaldo.

We threw squad planning out of the window the moment we signed him but he shouldn't be blamed for any of this at all. Our management simply should've known better.
He definitely shouldn’t be blamed for his time here and what he accomplished. Dragged us to a scudetto in Sarri’s season. Dragged us to CL QFs in 2018. Did he do those things alone? Nope. But he was the most decisive figure on the pitch for us. It wasn’t his fault management couldn’t build a proper team around him. The move was a spectacular failure, but not because of his performances.

What he can be blamed for is dilly dallying like a clown all summer, telling management and Allegri he was staying (or so they have all come out and said since), and then getting a “grass is greener” offer after the season had begun and forcing his way out. Total assclown behaviour and fucked the start of our season up entirely. I’m grateful he left and we got Vlahovic. But that could have been done in summer with more time for planning and we’d be in the scudetto race right now.
 

Bianconero81

Ageing Veteran
Jan 26, 2009
40,177
Who's the real goat ?

Messi ? I understand, if you say someone else you're being nostalgic


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Not Messi either. So, if I choose to pick a player from another era, then I'm being nostalgic. It has to be either Messi or Ronaldo. Just wow. So much for logic and free will. My favorite players are Baggio and Zidane. My GOAT is Maradona. However, I can also understand people who choose Pele, Cruyff, the original Ronaldo, or Messi and CR7.
 

Cerval

Senior Member
Feb 20, 2016
26,829
Not Messi either. So, if I choose to pick a player from another era, then I'm being nostalgic. It has to be either Messi or Ronaldo. Just wow. So much for logic and free will. My favorite players are Baggio and Zidane. My GOAT is Maradona. However, I can also understand people who choose Pele, Cruyff, the original Ronaldo, or Messi and CR7.
Messi and CR7 are Lebron doppelgangers. Nostalgia goggles off.
 

AFL_ITALIA

MAGISTERIAL
Jun 17, 2011
31,820
Not Messi either. So, if I choose to pick a player from another era, then I'm being nostalgic. It has to be either Messi or Ronaldo. Just wow. So much for logic and free will. My favorite players are Baggio and Zidane. My GOAT is Maradona. However, I can also understand people who choose Pele, Cruyff, the original Ronaldo, or Messi and CR7.
I was hoping you would say Dybala just to make half of the forum really mad.
 

Albo

Senior Member
Apr 13, 2009
11,463
Not Messi either. So, if I choose to pick a player from another era, then I'm being nostalgic. It has to be either Messi or Ronaldo. Just wow. So much for logic and free will. My favorite players are Baggio and Zidane. My GOAT is Maradona. However, I can also understand people who choose Pele, Cruyff, the original Ronaldo, or Messi and CR7.
It's logical to think somone as a goat if he has won 7 ballon do'r (Messi) or he is/was best player in the history of champions league (CR7) , that's totally logical.

It doesn't matter who's your favorite,i used to love Sissoko but i don't say/think he was world class .

I've never seen Pele,Cruyff,Maradona .

But there is no single doubt , CR7,Messi are way way way better than Zizu,R9 .
 

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