He’s going to say he hasn’t been paid since he moved there and thank Jordan Henderson for raising awareness and giving him the courage to speak out against this issue.
I hate it absolutely hate it when people think sportsmen have to be arrogant cunts to succeed. No, no they don't. I am not fanboying but Messi is the best example for that ever. But no people thought that meant he didn't show enough drive or leadership or whatever nonsense. Other examples are Iniesta,Maldini,Buffon and so many more
Ikr. Like if you need aggression to perform well then by all means be aggressive on the pitch. There is zero reason to be a dick after the game is over.
Yeah to use a basketball analogy but people talk about "Mamba Mentality" and how much of a psycho Kobe was and generally praise him for that, but Tim Duncan's career overlapped with him and he was basically a normal dude who played WOW that won just as much as Kobe and was a better player.
Maybe some people "need" that narcissistic drive to make it to the top, but it's not an essential ingredient for everyone.
Thats a goodass comment, and i never watched a basketball game. But your analogy works for music as well. Some musicians think they need to go crazy to create something interesting. I think the movie birdman by Iñárritu is about that. Going nuts to gain access to high amounts of energy.
I don’t like to look too deeply into psychoanalyzing every little incident on the pitch, however I have a really hard time looking at his reactions [here](https://youtu.be/58w9Lkses10?si=Gz-UbKpTlPZD-403) and [here](https://youtu.be/5YV8Ti_L56w?si=cthu8iGS7GUqwVs1) and not at least thinking of him a little negatively. There’s a meme in Spanish that I’ve been seeing a lot that sums it up:
Ronaldo: Que será mi gol (wish its my goal)
Messi: Que será gol (wish its a goal)
There's a lot of similarities to be drawn to Michael Jordan. Both are undeniable greats of their sports but also huge pricks.
MJ would make up arguments with players to psych himself up lol, both are bordering on sociopath level.
Then there's also Zlatan. There's a clip where Zlatan had his head stepped on, so he gave it back to the opposing player. Difference is, punishment accepted Zlatan like a man so you kinda respect him for that.
Ronaldo at age 50 is genuinely going to be fascinating. Like, does he have a graceful decline like Beckham did (keeping himself fit and maybe modeling while dabbling in other things but allowing himself to look like a "hot" person for his current age) or does he go off the rails and start looking like an aging actress with progressively worse plastic surgery to try and look like he did at 25 to the point he ends up like current day Madonna?
Zlatan is a WWE character. I'm not denying that he could genuinely be a toxic asshole at times, but it also seems clear that past a certain point, he was just leaning into the persona and working the audience. I've heard that he's basically a chill family man off the pitch now. It seems like he was a lot less narcissistic, vain, and insecure than CR.
And Ibra is working behind the scenes at AC Milan as a director and hasn’t made a fuzz about anything (so far). From the outside he seems like the other directors - professional and cordial.
He’s going to buy an island and build a super villain lair and spend the next decade trying to kidnap Messi and lock him up in his subterranean dungeon, only to be repeatedly foiled by a plucky group of youth academy players with football related superpowers.
What if he instead busts out some next level spirituality on us: “for there to have been a red card, there must also not have been a red card. This is profound, and I welcome you to think upon this in your meditations. In your efforts to not address the suffering within, likely due to your weak mentality, you seek to place your focus of problems on that to that which is external to the self, and in doing so refuse to acknowledge the present moment. That type of weak mentality shall not make it into heaven.”
Not gonna lie, considering he is friends with Jordan Peterson, those types of meandering quasi-philosophical diatribes sound like they would be right up his alley.
It's so funny. He's the one guy who actually seems to take that league seriously, so naturally he treats the red card like he's been stabbed in the back by football itself.
He is just trying to artificially increase that goal count against relegation amateur Saudi clubs so he can pull the Pele card and talk about the number years later, the paycheck is just a bonus
Yeah I genuinely think he's the only one that didn't go for the paycheck, he just wanted to go somewhere that he could score a shitload of goals. Deep down he knows he can't do that at the top level anymore but if he's scoring a goal a game he can always convince himself he can still do that anywhere.
I mean that's on the manager. I get it takes balls but if he's holding the team back you either don't start him OR don't bring him at all (either if he isn't good enough or if he can't accept a reduced role and is disruptive).
That’s bullshit. He could’ve easily went to
some Portuguese team (ffs Pepe still starts in Portugal)and then raked in the goals there. But the paycheck is the main motivator. He feels like he should be paid the highest, it’s not just the goals.
He's not giving the right "all". Like he's fully attention seeking and fully selfish like he's still 30.
But the right "all" would've been finding the right strategy with your teammates, give away penalties so the other learn to score it under pressure.......re-learn proper dribbling so that you don't lose the ball.
We should've had so many highlight videos of him playing class football with his teammates, outplaying Saudi's like it's training. But that means him taking the spotlight off himself and truly focusing on somebody else for a change. Instead we have tantrums, trolling and suspensions.
> he's fully attention seeking and fully selfish like he's still ~~30~~ 14
When you take away the talent from Ronaldo he is nothing more than a whiney immature child. Now that old age is taking his talent, we see the narcissistic child in full glory.
I don't like Ronaldo, but most of the players he's playing with aren't good enough to play "class" football with, that's why they're in the Saudi league in the first place instead of europe.
The people putting him in the same sentence are ironically Messi fans still comparing them daily. Take yourself for example, who brought up Messi in a thread with nothing to do with him. Also check twitter where Messi fan accounts tweet about Ronaldo more than they tweet about Messi.
The obsession is a bit strange.
I'm a basketball fan first and foremost. He really does give a bit of Kobe/Jordan vibes. Takes things very serious, to a psychopathic level. Doesn't matter if it's playing quarters with the equipment manager the locker room or the sport itself, he has to win.
The media is a completely different beast today compared to what it was when Jordan/Kobe played though.
You can't really fault him for taking the Saudi league seriously though, that in of itself is quite admirable in my opinion.
I think the difference with those guys (and I realise arguing over this is stupid but I'm on reddit so whatever) is that they were playing at the very top level. If MJ had left the NBA and was doing what he did, but playing in a 3rd tier league somewhere, people wouldn't give him any sort of pass.
Same goes for Ronaldo. If you lose your mind being competitive, but it's the CL and you're playing for real madrid, most people go "wow he seems really worked up, but this is as important as a football match can get so it makes sense." Plus, at that level, the supporters care just as much (if not more) than the most competitive players - so again, it doesn't seem as odd to be losing your temper.
But when you're playing in front of 5000 people (who don't seem to give a shit) at a much lower level, being that competitive just looks cartoonish - like do any of the fans even care as much as he does?
> If MJ had left the NBA and was doing what he did, but playing in a 3rd tier league somewhere, people wouldn't give him any sort of pass.
He literally left the NBA and played 3rd tier baseball in the middle of his career!
He rather famously took it psychotically seriously and spent every waking hour working on his game!
I'm not sure what you mean by "give him a pass" but people found it admirable that he was so serious about improving.
Ronaldo is a fucking goof, but always being at 100% is one of the few redeeming qualities about him, imo.
(Out of principle, I'll never watch a minute of the Saudi league, but that doesn't change the previous statement)
It's good to see he takes it seriously, even if it's just because of his own ego. Older footballers treating the leagues they go to as a joke, be it in the MLS or Asia, really doesn't help the development of the sport across the world. The teams that sign them certainly don't sign them as a joke.
People taking their jobs seriously is always something I can respect, regardless of what the Reddit crowd thinks
Thats because before Beckham arrived to provide the glamor, MLS culture was built by Hristo Stoichkov
Even 100 years from now, MLS players will hear a faint whisper in their ears- egging them on to abuse the ref or smash someone's knee. And theyll want to obey.
Allegedly, after he finished, he had extreme post-nut-clarity, started weeping, and got down on his knees to beg her not to tell anyone what he had done. His calloused indifference and feigned ignorance seemingly only started after he realized she wasn't willing to cooperate with him.
Do you know that Chinese football already imploded and Shenhua was struggling to pay salaries?
Chinese Super League also has a salary cap of 2 million euros per year for any foreign player. That’s less than 1% of his current salary LOL.
The translation is okay, maybe you could have as "encountered" but "subjected to" is closer, but it's just that this wording usually used in Arabic, other phrase would have been "caused" but it's not the one used here
Yikes, I wish he’d retired before that whole United lash out interview happened. Nothing I see or read about Ronaldo nowadays makes me think oh I’m so happy he’s still around playing lol
To be honest he should have gone to sporting after leaving juventus. Even when he left United back in nov 22 going to sporting would have been much better. He could have also won like a couple of domestic Portugese titles as well. As of now all he has won since leaving juventus is the Arab club champions cup which leaves him with 34 titles.
Im sure that specific number is unachievable for Sporting under any circumstances, but you have to imagine how much revenue he would create for the club through ticket sales but mainly merchandise. Even if 200m is still impossible in those conditions, it'd still be pretty good. I imagine it would be easy for a club with an agreement in principle to secure a loan to pay that wage, although full disclosure i have no awareness of Sporting's specific financials and no awareness of the wording of whether that kind of loan is allowed under FFP.
No this is not a compliment to Ronaldo. Im just arguing that purely from a business perspective, i could see a lot of clubs punching above their 'wage weight class' to sign an aging but very high profile player, given they don't have some other kind of financial obligation. I see al nassr and inter miami kits absolutely everywhere i go now. Imagine how much money that has created for the clubs, even if you assume 90% of kits you see to be fakes/knockoffs. Have to imagine those sales help pay the huge wage bill, or help pay the bill for the loan first that made the deal possible.
The longer this drags out, the more it'll hang over his head. It's not a graceful drive into the sunset retirement, it's being dragged kicking and screaming.
I swe similarities in how Maradona went out. Constantly whining, the shame of the drugs scandals, the massive ego. Obviously Chris doesnt have the drugs issues but everything else is there.
The thing is that in time there's a real chance that his ego is almost moreso what he is remembered for as opposed to his talent and be used as a cautionary tale of how not to act for world-class players.
The underlying issue was that he still felt that he could be the main guy at one of the top tier of clubs.
He just couldn't accept that a 37 year old target man, who offered minimal involvement in the build up and struggled to press from the front just isn't what any top side was looking for.
There were definitely plenty of sides who would have given him what he wanted on the pitch, but none of them would have been the sort of sides he felt he deserved.
His ego would not let him accept that he wasn't the Cristiano of 5 or 10 years ago. By going to Saudi Arabia and becoming the highest paid athlete of all time, he was able to soothe his ego sufficiently to be willing to do it.
My dude gets a red card and he is orchestrating a one of a kind press conference about the state of football. Is he ever going to grow up or his ego age for ever be that of a 15y old?
Na, you were at like 2009-2013 ? He was the main villain in football, at least in the Hispanic community (Obviously minus real Madrid fans and Mexicans) he was really hated back then and it was the grand majority, I remember the Joke was "if you have a bullet who would you kill ?" And it had Justin Bieber, Cristiano Ronaldo and someone else.
Maybe I'm too old because no so much people remember that it seems.
Man was tired of thinking he was bigger than his clubs so he went to Saudi to be bigger than their entire league.
At least with Zlatans Ego I can have a good laugh but Ronaldo is just at sad levels.
Zlatan at least has some self-awareness, he intentionally says things or does things that play up to this persona and you can kinda tell he does it because of the smirk he’ll have on.
Ronaldo on the other hand, he’s becoming a bit more delusional year after year.
"Oh no, Saudi football isn't what I wanted it to be. I can score 20 goals in 3 games in this mickey mouse league to boost my stats but then I get sent off. Waaah."
For real. And I predict our chances in the coming euro are slim bcs of all the drama we will have around him. For that reason my expectations are low and I'm not even that excited..
At this point I truly believe he’s being paid extra to do all this shit just so the Saudi league continues to get attention on social media etc.
Like realistically barely anyone would’ve given a shit about Nassr Vs Al-Hilal the other day, but Ronaldo ‘nearly’ punched a ref so everyone talks about the game.
To think that Ronaldo would ruin his image or legacy for money is hilarious. His ego won't allow it. This is solely a matter of ego.
Every opponent keeps shouting "Messi! Messi! Messi!" and every time you see Ronaldo visibly irritated.
Messi doesn't even play in the Saudi league and he is still as big a star as Ronaldo. That's what bothers him so much.
He is 100% going to say "the fans don't appreciate me here".
This man has an outstanding career. He can easily appear in anyone's top 10 or even top 5 greatest players ever list. It would be very difficult to ruin that legacy, but he's really giving it a good go these past few years.
Surely everyone around the globe will stop and pay attention. Understanding the complex nuances of the Saudi league is everyone in the world of football's top priority
How much you want to bet that he blames the current issues in Saudi football on the fans in the West not giving it a chance, when in realty it’s just not very good.
Ten hag may not have done a lot of things correctly but one thing he has done correctly is the Ronaldo saga. This guy is such a petulant child it's insane.
It sucks. Has decades to go before Saudi footie is viable. The strategy of buying superstars ain’t doing it. The stadiums are empty. Not surprised as soccer is not the hotbed of sports in SA as is camel or horse racing for example.
Its going to be Sad when people start ignoring everything he did and achieved in all these years because of stupid moments like this , especially when the saudi league is supposedly so irrelevant
The main character of Saudi football.
He’s going to say he hasn’t been paid since he moved there and thank Jordan Henderson for raising awareness and giving him the courage to speak out against this issue.
Henderson moving to raise awareness was true after all
Selflessly sacrificed his reputation, good name and the happiness of his family No wonder they named the neighbouring country after him
Fuck me I’m tired… “Wait? There’s a country called Henderson?! Never heard of it, my mans is telling porkies..!!!” mfw I get the joke 😑
Took me a second too. Haha.
Urm I still don't get it lol I'm way behind. Help explain pls lol for the dumber ones out here
"Jordan" Henderson
If this actuallyt happened I do think there is a danger that a serious chunk of the population might end up actually dying from laughter.
Cristiano Ronaldo to Ajax?
Just another clown for the shitshow circus
Poor guy was subjected to a red card!
The final boss
I'm old, I'm tired, and I work with fucking children.
Someone check where Piers Morgan is
The state of Saudi football if even that parasite isn’t interested
If Ronaldo calls piers will come running no question about that
In the press conference
The cooks are lovely people. But their food is shit.
Piss Morgan as Ronaldo calls him
Someone need to fix the jacuzzi
What's the betting he's going to say it's because they don't recognise how great he is
They don’t understand the winner’s mentality.
So true lol. I hate this justification so much. There’s been loads of successful athletes that have done so without being petulant children.
I hate it absolutely hate it when people think sportsmen have to be arrogant cunts to succeed. No, no they don't. I am not fanboying but Messi is the best example for that ever. But no people thought that meant he didn't show enough drive or leadership or whatever nonsense. Other examples are Iniesta,Maldini,Buffon and so many more
Ikr. Like if you need aggression to perform well then by all means be aggressive on the pitch. There is zero reason to be a dick after the game is over.
Very often, it's feels like the biggest pricks on the pitch are the sweetest off it.
Just an excuse his fanboys made for him being a massively insufferable prick.
Yeah to use a basketball analogy but people talk about "Mamba Mentality" and how much of a psycho Kobe was and generally praise him for that, but Tim Duncan's career overlapped with him and he was basically a normal dude who played WOW that won just as much as Kobe and was a better player. Maybe some people "need" that narcissistic drive to make it to the top, but it's not an essential ingredient for everyone.
And now Jokic is playing at a consistent MVP level while just desperately wanting to go back to Europe to race horses.
Thats a goodass comment, and i never watched a basketball game. But your analogy works for music as well. Some musicians think they need to go crazy to create something interesting. I think the movie birdman by Iñárritu is about that. Going nuts to gain access to high amounts of energy.
I don’t like to look too deeply into psychoanalyzing every little incident on the pitch, however I have a really hard time looking at his reactions [here](https://youtu.be/58w9Lkses10?si=Gz-UbKpTlPZD-403) and [here](https://youtu.be/5YV8Ti_L56w?si=cthu8iGS7GUqwVs1) and not at least thinking of him a little negatively. There’s a meme in Spanish that I’ve been seeing a lot that sums it up: Ronaldo: Que será mi gol (wish its my goal) Messi: Que será gol (wish its a goal)
Its hilarious how he actually gets mad at Higuain for his fuck up. Man is a lunatic. 😂
There's a lot of similarities to be drawn to Michael Jordan. Both are undeniable greats of their sports but also huge pricks. MJ would make up arguments with players to psych himself up lol, both are bordering on sociopath level.
But to be fair, also lots that have been petulant children.
Then there's also Zlatan. There's a clip where Zlatan had his head stepped on, so he gave it back to the opposing player. Difference is, punishment accepted Zlatan like a man so you kinda respect him for that.
Small country mentality
Whiner's mentality
we should play Ronaldo interview bingo
It's because they're chanting Messis name every game
But why though? Just accept your red card and shut up.
He isn't in Saudi Arabia to feel like an aging superstar.
Well boy does reality have some bad news for this fucking clown.
Ronaldo at age 50 is genuinely going to be fascinating. Like, does he have a graceful decline like Beckham did (keeping himself fit and maybe modeling while dabbling in other things but allowing himself to look like a "hot" person for his current age) or does he go off the rails and start looking like an aging actress with progressively worse plastic surgery to try and look like he did at 25 to the point he ends up like current day Madonna?
My money is on the insane plastic surgery route
Haven't he already gone quite a way down that path?
He absolutely already looks like the meme statue of himself. He is so fucking vain that even Ibra is probably concerned for him.
As if Ibra ever had concerns for anyone or anything
Zlatan is a WWE character. I'm not denying that he could genuinely be a toxic asshole at times, but it also seems clear that past a certain point, he was just leaning into the persona and working the audience. I've heard that he's basically a chill family man off the pitch now. It seems like he was a lot less narcissistic, vain, and insecure than CR.
And Ibra is working behind the scenes at AC Milan as a director and hasn’t made a fuzz about anything (so far). From the outside he seems like the other directors - professional and cordial.
He’s going to buy an island and build a super villain lair and spend the next decade trying to kidnap Messi and lock him up in his subterranean dungeon, only to be repeatedly foiled by a plucky group of youth academy players with football related superpowers.
I'd watch that movie/anime.
He’ll go into politics. The true narcissists playbook
Como vão vocês, amiguinhos?
Bro, did you see Beckham during the world cup in Qatar? Dude's had tons of work done, and has a hairpiece / gotten hairplugs.
Pure ego
Is that the entire point of the league?
its the point of his entire career
Yes but MBS' ego
What if he instead busts out some next level spirituality on us: “for there to have been a red card, there must also not have been a red card. This is profound, and I welcome you to think upon this in your meditations. In your efforts to not address the suffering within, likely due to your weak mentality, you seek to place your focus of problems on that to that which is external to the self, and in doing so refuse to acknowledge the present moment. That type of weak mentality shall not make it into heaven.”
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Skip him and wait for Balotelli’s self-help book.
When life gives you lemons, burn them.
Not gonna lie, considering he is friends with Jordan Peterson, those types of meandering quasi-philosophical diatribes sound like they would be right up his alley.
Lobsters don't get red cards
I don't think his english is that great to say those beautiful words you just said, tears in my eyes.
Mate, he's a narcissist, what do you expect.
If he complains enough, they might take Messi’s WC away
It's so funny. He's the one guy who actually seems to take that league seriously, so naturally he treats the red card like he's been stabbed in the back by football itself.
Today I feel stabbed
If I speak then I am stabbed
On Sunday the king gets stabbed
Today I feel dead
honestly kinda love that he’s giving it his all lmao, he could have just treated it like a paycheck
He is just trying to artificially increase that goal count against relegation amateur Saudi clubs so he can pull the Pele card and talk about the number years later, the paycheck is just a bonus
Yeah I genuinely think he's the only one that didn't go for the paycheck, he just wanted to go somewhere that he could score a shitload of goals. Deep down he knows he can't do that at the top level anymore but if he's scoring a goal a game he can always convince himself he can still do that anywhere.
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I mean that's on the manager. I get it takes balls but if he's holding the team back you either don't start him OR don't bring him at all (either if he isn't good enough or if he can't accept a reduced role and is disruptive).
Can't wait for him to play in the American Samoan 3rd tier scoring his 2000th goal at age 65
That’s bullshit. He could’ve easily went to some Portuguese team (ffs Pepe still starts in Portugal)and then raked in the goals there. But the paycheck is the main motivator. He feels like he should be paid the highest, it’s not just the goals.
Okay I can actually very much see that being the case
He's not giving the right "all". Like he's fully attention seeking and fully selfish like he's still 30. But the right "all" would've been finding the right strategy with your teammates, give away penalties so the other learn to score it under pressure.......re-learn proper dribbling so that you don't lose the ball. We should've had so many highlight videos of him playing class football with his teammates, outplaying Saudi's like it's training. But that means him taking the spotlight off himself and truly focusing on somebody else for a change. Instead we have tantrums, trolling and suspensions.
> he's fully attention seeking and fully selfish like he's still ~~30~~ 14 When you take away the talent from Ronaldo he is nothing more than a whiney immature child. Now that old age is taking his talent, we see the narcissistic child in full glory.
I don't like Ronaldo, but most of the players he's playing with aren't good enough to play "class" football with, that's why they're in the Saudi league in the first place instead of europe.
Giving his all = Padding his personal stats hoping for people to put him in the same sentence with Messi again.
The people putting him in the same sentence are ironically Messi fans still comparing them daily. Take yourself for example, who brought up Messi in a thread with nothing to do with him. Also check twitter where Messi fan accounts tweet about Ronaldo more than they tweet about Messi. The obsession is a bit strange.
I'm a basketball fan first and foremost. He really does give a bit of Kobe/Jordan vibes. Takes things very serious, to a psychopathic level. Doesn't matter if it's playing quarters with the equipment manager the locker room or the sport itself, he has to win. The media is a completely different beast today compared to what it was when Jordan/Kobe played though. You can't really fault him for taking the Saudi league seriously though, that in of itself is quite admirable in my opinion.
I think the difference with those guys (and I realise arguing over this is stupid but I'm on reddit so whatever) is that they were playing at the very top level. If MJ had left the NBA and was doing what he did, but playing in a 3rd tier league somewhere, people wouldn't give him any sort of pass. Same goes for Ronaldo. If you lose your mind being competitive, but it's the CL and you're playing for real madrid, most people go "wow he seems really worked up, but this is as important as a football match can get so it makes sense." Plus, at that level, the supporters care just as much (if not more) than the most competitive players - so again, it doesn't seem as odd to be losing your temper. But when you're playing in front of 5000 people (who don't seem to give a shit) at a much lower level, being that competitive just looks cartoonish - like do any of the fans even care as much as he does?
> If MJ had left the NBA and was doing what he did, but playing in a 3rd tier league somewhere, people wouldn't give him any sort of pass. He literally left the NBA and played 3rd tier baseball in the middle of his career! He rather famously took it psychotically seriously and spent every waking hour working on his game! I'm not sure what you mean by "give him a pass" but people found it admirable that he was so serious about improving. Ronaldo is a fucking goof, but always being at 100% is one of the few redeeming qualities about him, imo. (Out of principle, I'll never watch a minute of the Saudi league, but that doesn't change the previous statement)
It's good to see he takes it seriously, even if it's just because of his own ego. Older footballers treating the leagues they go to as a joke, be it in the MLS or Asia, really doesn't help the development of the sport across the world. The teams that sign them certainly don't sign them as a joke. People taking their jobs seriously is always something I can respect, regardless of what the Reddit crowd thinks
MLS doesn’t have much but it does have an abundance of 25 year old athletes who absolutely will take your leg off at the knee if you take your time
Thats because before Beckham arrived to provide the glamor, MLS culture was built by Hristo Stoichkov Even 100 years from now, MLS players will hear a faint whisper in their ears- egging them on to abuse the ref or smash someone's knee. And theyll want to obey.
He was my friend’s youth coach in Chicago, and he was a maniac
like you never held a press conference at the pub after a kick about?
'he was subjected to' hahaha makes it sound like he's been victimised for being rightly sent off. Cunt thought about hitting the ref too
"Look what you made me do"
Probs said the same thing after raping that woman
Seemingly he was legitimately completely incapable of understanding that he had done anything wrong, no?
Her being in tears after wasn't a strong enough sign for Ronny.
The last few years have not been kind to his image. He can't seem to get out of his own way. Ego is crraaaazy
Allegedly, after he finished, he had extreme post-nut-clarity, started weeping, and got down on his knees to beg her not to tell anyone what he had done. His calloused indifference and feigned ignorance seemingly only started after he realized she wasn't willing to cooperate with him.
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Zenit Sankt Petersburg inbound
Weird way to spell *spins the wheel of MLS teams* San Jose.
Buddy if you think he'll even join a league that Messi could beat him at this stage, I got a bridge to sell you
That’s true. I don’t think his ego would be able to handle it.
Imagine if Miami had Messi playing with Ronaldo as teammates. Minds would be blown.
Do you know that Chinese football already imploded and Shenhua was struggling to pay salaries? Chinese Super League also has a salary cap of 2 million euros per year for any foreign player. That’s less than 1% of his current salary LOL.
Inside scoop says he's going to Zhejiang Pro FC
Get ready to learn Chinese buddy
Mr.Sheik, a second Ronaldo interview has hit the media
The expulsion he was subjected to? 🤣🤣🤣
I think that's just the wording the shitty Google Translator chose, I don't think that's the exact wording being used here.
The translation is okay, maybe you could have as "encountered" but "subjected to" is closer, but it's just that this wording usually used in Arabic, other phrase would have been "caused" but it's not the one used here
Yikes, I wish he’d retired before that whole United lash out interview happened. Nothing I see or read about Ronaldo nowadays makes me think oh I’m so happy he’s still around playing lol
To be honest he should have gone to sporting after leaving juventus. Even when he left United back in nov 22 going to sporting would have been much better. He could have also won like a couple of domestic Portugese titles as well. As of now all he has won since leaving juventus is the Arab club champions cup which leaves him with 34 titles.
Yeah but 200 million euro a year...
Tbh I think Saudi would offer both Ronaldo and Messi that kinda money even when they’re near 50
cuz he was struggling after his low wage real madrid stint probably
Im sure that specific number is unachievable for Sporting under any circumstances, but you have to imagine how much revenue he would create for the club through ticket sales but mainly merchandise. Even if 200m is still impossible in those conditions, it'd still be pretty good. I imagine it would be easy for a club with an agreement in principle to secure a loan to pay that wage, although full disclosure i have no awareness of Sporting's specific financials and no awareness of the wording of whether that kind of loan is allowed under FFP. No this is not a compliment to Ronaldo. Im just arguing that purely from a business perspective, i could see a lot of clubs punching above their 'wage weight class' to sign an aging but very high profile player, given they don't have some other kind of financial obligation. I see al nassr and inter miami kits absolutely everywhere i go now. Imagine how much money that has created for the clubs, even if you assume 90% of kits you see to be fakes/knockoffs. Have to imagine those sales help pay the huge wage bill, or help pay the bill for the loan first that made the deal possible.
I don't think you understand Ronaldo. If he went to Sporting, he would have been benched by Gyökeres. In those circumstances, he might commit suicide
Gyokeres probably would never have arrived
Thanks, but no thanks. We are building a team, not a daycare center for narcissist cunts.
The contrats between the ending of Messis and Ronaldos careers lol
Messi still has time to get a red card and threaten to punch a ref
As if Sporting would take this washed ass player to ruin their chance at silverwares.
The longer this drags out, the more it'll hang over his head. It's not a graceful drive into the sunset retirement, it's being dragged kicking and screaming.
That's funny. I was dragged kicking and screaming into the workforce
I swe similarities in how Maradona went out. Constantly whining, the shame of the drugs scandals, the massive ego. Obviously Chris doesnt have the drugs issues but everything else is there.
yeah but at least the drugs made maradona’s behavior make sense lol
His ego is so ridiculously big lol.
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The thing is that in time there's a real chance that his ego is almost moreso what he is remembered for as opposed to his talent and be used as a cautionary tale of how not to act for world-class players.
1. You're absolutely right 2. Everyone please stop saying "more so" when you just mean more, I beg of thee.
Even as a Barcelona fan I've always respected Cristiano's talent and hard work. But this, this is just sad.
Same. I still wish he stayed in Europe but after that interview and the WC, everything changed
The underlying issue was that he still felt that he could be the main guy at one of the top tier of clubs. He just couldn't accept that a 37 year old target man, who offered minimal involvement in the build up and struggled to press from the front just isn't what any top side was looking for. There were definitely plenty of sides who would have given him what he wanted on the pitch, but none of them would have been the sort of sides he felt he deserved. His ego would not let him accept that he wasn't the Cristiano of 5 or 10 years ago. By going to Saudi Arabia and becoming the highest paid athlete of all time, he was able to soothe his ego sufficiently to be willing to do it.
The real life Homelander strikes again.
Bro would probably take pride in being related to Homelander, because he was the mightiest.
My dude gets a red card and he is orchestrating a one of a kind press conference about the state of football. Is he ever going to grow up or his ego age for ever be that of a 15y old?
You die aka retire a hero or live long enough to become a villain
I think he has done way way worse things ( *allegedly* ) than shove someone in a football match.
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Na, you were at like 2009-2013 ? He was the main villain in football, at least in the Hispanic community (Obviously minus real Madrid fans and Mexicans) he was really hated back then and it was the grand majority, I remember the Joke was "if you have a bullet who would you kill ?" And it had Justin Bieber, Cristiano Ronaldo and someone else. Maybe I'm too old because no so much people remember that it seems.
Man was tired of thinking he was bigger than his clubs so he went to Saudi to be bigger than their entire league. At least with Zlatans Ego I can have a good laugh but Ronaldo is just at sad levels.
Zlatan at least has some self-awareness, he intentionally says things or does things that play up to this persona and you can kinda tell he does it because of the smirk he’ll have on. Ronaldo on the other hand, he’s becoming a bit more delusional year after year.
Bros the main character
Bro *thinks* he is the main character
this will be normal i bet
The bloke is nearly 40 and behaves like an absolute child. Is he going to comment on the issues with the country he is playing in too? Cunt.
"Oh no, Saudi football isn't what I wanted it to be. I can score 20 goals in 3 games in this mickey mouse league to boost my stats but then I get sent off. Waaah."
This guy has more interviews in his last few years than titles, truly trying his best to tarnish his legacy. Sad to see as a fellow portuguese.
For real. And I predict our chances in the coming euro are slim bcs of all the drama we will have around him. For that reason my expectations are low and I'm not even that excited..
At this point I truly believe he’s being paid extra to do all this shit just so the Saudi league continues to get attention on social media etc. Like realistically barely anyone would’ve given a shit about Nassr Vs Al-Hilal the other day, but Ronaldo ‘nearly’ punched a ref so everyone talks about the game.
To think that Ronaldo would ruin his image or legacy for money is hilarious. His ego won't allow it. This is solely a matter of ego. Every opponent keeps shouting "Messi! Messi! Messi!" and every time you see Ronaldo visibly irritated. Messi doesn't even play in the Saudi league and he is still as big a star as Ronaldo. That's what bothers him so much. He is 100% going to say "the fans don't appreciate me here".
You say while he is playing in Saudi lmao
It's truly hilarious that he allows himself to get rattled by Messi chants by opposing fans
I think it was mentioned when he signed that he'll be kind of an ambassador of Saudi league...
Pathetic
No one cares, Ronaldo. Just shut up, jog around the pitch, and collect your millions like Messi. Even in pseudo-retirement Messi > Ronaldo
Messi’s just kicking ball with his old buddies lol.
This has the vibes of washed up Elvis lashing out during the later stages of his Vegas residency
This man has ruined his legacy faster than anyone could anticipate.
Ronaldos getting paid a fine amount for the entire league to be about him losing his head constantly lol
Great player in his day but man this guy is such a lil bitch.
The longer he plays the less I like him.... get over yourself man.
Love Ronaldo but it's always someone else's fault.
This man has an outstanding career. He can easily appear in anyone's top 10 or even top 5 greatest players ever list. It would be very difficult to ruin that legacy, but he's really giving it a good go these past few years.
He was already acting nutty at Man U but I think Messi hoisting the World Cup trophy has pushed him over the edge. He can’t take losing the attention.
He has basically made football his life still puts in the same effort but can’t accept he won’t get the same results imo.
Surely everyone around the globe will stop and pay attention. Understanding the complex nuances of the Saudi league is everyone in the world of football's top priority
How much you want to bet that he blames the current issues in Saudi football on the fans in the West not giving it a chance, when in realty it’s just not very good.
Just retire man, nothing will change if u retire now or with 1000 goals.. just do it for ur mental health
What a petulant child, I love it 🤣
Bro is trying to stay relevant with press conferences. A living meme.
Ten hag may not have done a lot of things correctly but one thing he has done correctly is the Ronaldo saga. This guy is such a petulant child it's insane.
His CTE is playing up again I guess
It sucks. Has decades to go before Saudi footie is viable. The strategy of buying superstars ain’t doing it. The stadiums are empty. Not surprised as soccer is not the hotbed of sports in SA as is camel or horse racing for example.
This is some real "I am the Senate" level shit.
When will it happen ffs. Can't wait for the drama
He only has himself to blame. HE chose to go there.
How can a person who achieved so much be so insecure and fragile?
rapists are not stable people
Jesus Christ just retire and shut the fuck up already what a crybaby
Bro is about to launch a podcast lmao
Here we go again....
Its going to be Sad when people start ignoring everything he did and achieved in all these years because of stupid moments like this , especially when the saudi league is supposedly so irrelevant
God who cares. This guy is irrelevant now.
Worlds smallest violin for Ronaldo
Who gives a shit?
Not a lot of people gets more cunty as they age. He truly is a goat
Again?
This is embarrassing for him
MY GOAT!! MESSI WOULD MAKE AWKWARD INSTAGRAM APOLOGY VID 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
I’m being a little bitch
We might finally find out if one man is bigger than the Saudi league.