Cristiano Ronaldo makes it back to Manchester United in a €15 million deal with a potential €8m addition. He will sign a two year contract to reconnect to the old club after 12 years. On business, this is superb but on sports and trophies, this is poor. They will get more TV rights but that is it!
Ronaldo is a legend. He scored more than 80 goals in Italy in 3 years. But under him Juventus degraded. Before his arrival, Juve was easily winning the league – 9 straight! In Ronaldo’s last session, the Old Lady was 4th. Notice that they made no progress on the Champions League: lost to Ajax in quarterfinals and last 16 to Lyon and Porto. Largely, Juve won only one knockout game with him. Not his fault except that he was in the midst!
Ronaldo will score many goals in Old Trafford. But scoring goals without creating goals or having others who do, will rarely win Champions League. He scored many goals in Italy, winning the battle but if you check, he lost the war. I do think that ManU needs a different type of player because ManU lacks consistency in structure in the midfield. The ManU coach Solskjaer was an open book which other coaches read quickly!
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I am never a good footballer but in secondary school, my nickname was Sausa: the football strategist and analyst. What a village boy! Welcome home Ronaldo, nevertheless.
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General response on my Cristiano Ronaldo’s piece. Yes, my problem is that I wrote something unpalatable about a god to many. I would not have written that piece if I am currently in Lagos. CR is a god and Manchester United is a temple. The altar remains the streets of Lagos and beyond where fans congregate on any ManU game.
So, I am aware that I was going against the crusaders of the Red Devils for pointing out that CR won his battles in Italy with many goals but lost the war of bringing Champions League to the Old Lady. But if you believe in numbers, my point is clear.
But when it comes to gods, even numbers are meaningless. CR, I am with you on this. Break the nets and may we forget our problems in Nigeria from those goals!
The article – https://lnkd.in/e6H8izyC).
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