This moment will go down in history as the moment that ROBBED Cristiano Ronaldo of a spot at his final World Cup.
Portugal have so many injuries/suspensions that it's practically impossible for them to qualify now.
They’ve just lifted the Premier League trophy for the 3rd in a row 20 minutes before this clip and they’re already focused on the UCL final.
Current squad beats Nottingham and makes posts pointing to their head for a week 😭😭
I still don't think people realise how insane Ronaldo's achievements with Portugal are. He was basically playing for the international equivalent of Malaga and expected to win EVERYTHING.
Portugal have only played in 3 finals. ALL with CR7.
🚨 Understand Harry Maguire is leading the way in the player revolt against Cristiano Ronaldo.
It’s though that Ronaldo has called out players on their standards and this has caused ‘unrest’ in some of the squad.
#mufc
Real Madrid beat Schalke 5-4 on aggregate in the 14/15 UCL RO16. Ronaldo scored 3 and got 1 assist.
Madrid lost the 2nd leg 4-3 at home. Ronaldo scored 2. This was his reaction at FT. He was pissed.
This whole "he would rather score and lose" narrative is so boring.
Cristiano Ronaldo would clearly be happy to lose 5-3 and score 3 than he would to see his team win 2-0, not score and advance to the knock outs.
He may be one of the greatest of all time but this is absolutely pathetic behaviour.
People tryna say "he's only doing this to leave and cause he's been benched" are forgetting Ronaldo said back in August that he's gonna reveal the truth in an interview.
The Glazers were always gonna get exposed. ETH and the other bums are just part of the problem.
When CR7 was robbed of a clear goal vs Serbia, no one complained.
When Argentina got a penalty for something that happens in every game and is fine, no one complained.
When CR7 had a perfect goal ruled out vs Ghana, no one complained.
When CR7 gets a perfectly fine penalty...
So MESSI is allowed to accuse an organisation of corruption and rigging but when the same is said of the World Cup in Qatar, the narrative is “delusion and coping”?
Interesting.
"Harry and Bruno were not available, I don't like it if a goalkeeper is captain, Casemiro and Licha don't have the best command of English yet, so I made Cristiano captain"
He had 5 people ahead of him, he was forced into it. Not out of choice.
✅ Erik ten Hag rejects any suggestion that he didn't show Ronaldo any respect. He purposely made him captain at Villa Park as a "sign of peace".
@PJBuckingham
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Cristiano Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema and Sergio Ramos.
Just some of the names that got booed by their own fans while playing for Real Madrid. They never got massive statements about how its wrong and sad. They just got on with it and came back stronger.
I wish football fans had this level of iq. A certain Cristiano Ronaldo has played the MOST minutes ever as a player. All in the Prem during its physicality years, LaLiga and Serie A.
Apparently Maguire should get a clean slate because “he might be better with an actual coach”
But CRISTIANO RONALDO isn’t being given an opportunity to show what he can do under an actual coach because a guy with 1 competitive goal in 8 months had a good pre season😭😭
Last season, Benzema said "don't pass to him on my mother's life he's playing against us" about Vinicius. Much worse than anything CR7 has done so far.
How does Vini respond? He becomes the best player in the world atm
United players need to bin the ego and follow the example.
Cristiano Ronaldo won more trophies in 2017 than finals Harry Kane has in 29 years of living on this planet.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored more goals in his first final as a 19 year old (1) than Harry Kane has shots on target in 4 finals (0)
Keane was calling 19 year old Ronaldo a wanker and it’s all well and good. But the moment Ronaldo did as much as stare at 25 year old Rashford after a bad pass, Gary Neville got on SkySports to complain about body language and leadership 😂😂
Saudi always had money. They have been offering contracts to players but no one accepted the insane wages cause they saw it as beneath them.
But when a player with CR7’s prestige joins, it adds credibility to the league.
No one cared about Saudi football before CR7. Fact.
🚨 The list of players confirmed in Saudi Arabia this summer:
🇫🇷 Karim Benzema
🇫🇷 N’Golo Kanté
🇸🇳 Édouard Mendy
🇸🇳 Kalidou Koulibaly
🇭🇷 Marcelo Brozović
🇧🇷 Roberto Firmino
🇵🇹 Rubén Neves
🇵🇹 Jota
The Cristiano effect? 🤑🤑🤑🤑
In 2007-08, Cristiano Ronaldo scored 31 goals in the Premier League (a record at the time) as a midfielder/winger.
It is the biggest xG overperformance as a percentage (237%) EVER. [
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Man, PSG was killing Leo mentally.
He’s been mentally liberated with Argentina and now for Miami in 2022 & 2023.
Never seen Messi talk this much shit - that South American DOG in him is back.
Random Fact: Cristiano Ronaldo is the ONLY player to score a hattrick in the home, away and third kit in the same season. He did it in 11/12.
Home: Osasuna, Levante, Rayo, Atleti
Away: Malaga, Zaragoza
Third: Sevilla
People really think his drop off from last season is a normal decline😭😭
He’s broken mentally and a whole bunch of factors contributed to it, both personally and professionally.
I forgot, one more thing:
No UCL Footy
Relegated from UCL to UEL and lost
[signed Ronaldo]
Top of UCL group and played a KO match for the first time in 3 years
[terminated Ronaldo]
Smashed by Sevilla in UEL
But when it was Ronaldo last season the narrative was “he doesn’t drop deep enough”
Guys expected him to drop a 40 goal season with McFred, hoofball Bruno, depressed+injured Rashford and teenage Elanga as his creative outlets😭😭
Haaland is actually making really good runs in behind but the lack of a vertical passer in City’s midfield is constantly forcing them into these sluggish and predictable wide situations.
Cristiano Ronaldo was 'finished' last season when he had 1 Premier League goal in 520 minutes (mostly as a sub).
Marcus 'starboy bdor winner' Rashford currently has 1 Premier League goal in his last 838 minutes (mostly as a starter).
Cristiano Ronaldo and David Beckham are similar in a few ways.
- Played for United, Madrid and a club in Italy
- NT Captains
- Their footballing ability gets underestimated due to how they look and off-pitch commercial activity/superstardom
Ronaldo has the MOST goals vs Bayern (9) and Neuer (10).
Even if you remove the 2 controversial goals Ronaldo scored vs Bayern, he is STILL the player with the MOST goals vs both Bayern (7) and Neuer (8).
Remove pens from overall goals and he’s still top, 8 and 9.
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@Muppetiers
He's played 30/38 matches. He missed one cause his son died. So that's 30/37. That's perfectly normal. I get you have a Ronaldo agenda but get your facts right.
History Teacher: What took place between '14 and '18 in Europe that caused levels of destruction never seen before?
Girl in my class: WW1
Me, an intellectual: Mr Champions League 😭😭♥️♥️
Ronaldo has given the club 6.5 years of incredible memories, trophies and moments. 2 months of bad form and you can't stop slandering him.
Where's your patience with him?
@htomufc
I think we know what will happen though
Ten Hag is obviously the favourite amongst the fanbase, he’ll come, we’ll then probably start the season slowly because obviously it’s a new manager, & then they’ll want him out. There’s 0 patience anymore with anything
People forget how much CR7 carried Portugal during his career. Especially from 06-16. No other player on the planet would have been capable of doing what he did.
It was getting so out of hand this kinda meme became the norm. It was unanimously accepted that he was a one man army
Man what happened to Indians? We used to be praised for being intelligent. Now people can’t even understand what a corruption scandal is.
Juve probably had nice goal’s during their scandal as well but it doesn’t change the fact that the refs helped them.
Portugal qualified for EVERY SINGLE World Cup (5) and Euros (5) with CR7.
Before him, they only qualified for 3 World Cups in 17 editions and 3 Euros in 11 editions.
Respect man, respect.
Every youngster in the sport has called him their idol and inspiration. His legacy is safer than any other player in history.
When the next generation of Ballon d'Or winners come around, he will be why it happened for them.
He's so influential, he transcends the sport.
@piersmorgan
it's actually sad about Ronaldo, Piers. Was a great player, the trophies and goals show that, but time is an unyielding opponent. The manner of his leaving Manchester United undermines his legacy - he will not be remembered as fondly in football as Lionel Messi will be.
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@MarkOgden_
Pathetic journalism from this guy. Ronaldo played well and contributed to both wins. Mark Ogden is clearly being paid by the glazers so he's doing his best to bring CR7 down.
Ronaldo never had any ‘dressing room problems’ during his career and won plenty of trophies. Both individual and collective.
But he suddenly joins a club with no trophy in 5 years and a captain with 4 relegations on his CV and he becomes a ‘virus and toxic’.
Strange.
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@Ayden__x
We are literally without a proper striker because PR37 could not find a club who wanted him in summer, board overspent on Antony and Glazers didn’t release funds in Jan due to club sale
Ten Hag still has one hand tied, doing quite well in the situation
Not going anywhere
Cristiano Ronaldo scored more goals in the 2017 UCL final vs Juventus (2) than the number of times Manchester City have reached the UCL final (1). 😭😂
@suckyourmum
Erling Haaland has scored more goals in his first nine matches for
#ManCity
[14] than Cristiano Ronaldo has managed in his last 30 matches for Manchester United [13]. 😭😂
@WhoScored
There have been only 2 occasions where the Ballon d’Or holder was not even nominated in the top 30 the very next year.
Modric 2018 and Messi 2021.
Robberies?