Unpopular opinion but if Haaland became available somehow and if his transfer to Juventus becomes feasible, I would sell Cristiano and 'restart' with Dybala and Haaland.
Doubt that this is unpopular. Ronaldo is our best player but he is 36. Haaland is as close as there is anyone at the moment to be "the next Ronaldo".
There are many Ronaldo fanboys on here...
I feel that in our quest for marketing and branding the club to the next level, we have lost our way a little bit.
Honestly there's no point of having Ronaldo on a €31M net salary when you can't gather the funds to support him with a world class midfield. We are getting farther away from the CL each year because we don't have a good enough overall team.
Plus I think Ronaldo already has done his part in terms of our commercial appeal. It's time to focus on the pitch again and make recruitments that will make this team elite again.
The reason we don't have a midfield that functions better is not because funds are tied up with Ronaldo. Money has been spent.
Imo, it's a mixture of necessary rejuvenation of the team coinciding at this moment, with the old players retiring/leaving, plus "gambles" that didn't pay off.
It was a choice to go for De Ligt, Chiesa, Kulu, Demiral, etc. who commanded big transfer fees all together. While signing Rabiot and Ramsey as free transfers. It's not like there was only the Ronaldo money and that was spent on him and nothing else. It's the priority of the spending and the scouting.