A 36 year old with 32 goals and 4 assists v a 27 year old with 4 goals and 2 assists. Yeah, I think I know who I'd rather keep for next season.
Don't really see how Nedved fits into this logic though. Nice ad absurdum there.
Dybala has been injured for the biggest part of this season, so it’s useless to compare the statistics.
Besides that Ronaldo indeed does score a lot, but does it justify 60m gross per year when we face serious financial difficulties? It doesn’t of course.
You also have to take in consideration that Ronaldo takes every penalty and basically every free kick. The penalty’s (6 until now) are easily replaceable and the free kicks are costing us goals.
We’re talking about ~26 goals which aren’t PK or FK, it’s in fact good replaceable if you look to the amount of money we’re paying Ronaldo.
Besides that Ronaldo doesn’t have the legs anymore to press a lot, doesn’t defend, doesn’t wants to get subbed, and he wastes quite a lot of opportunities. He isn’t the 31 y/o Ronaldo anymore.
You could give Dybala a contract extension and there’s still plenty of time to plusvalenza his ass. It isn’t the case with Ronaldo.
Would we feel Ronaldo’s absence? Of course, no denial there. But the negatives outweigh the positives at this point. We’ve been dropping many points and Ronaldo hasn’t been there carrying us.