Wont’ disagree
Compare that to the likes of Di Maria, Aguero, Mascherano and Tevez and it isn’t close between Ronaldo and Messi as to who has had the better supporting cast over the past ten years.
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It’s actually a bit embarrassing that the only thing Ronaldo can boast about the last 6 months is having the most influence on the younger generation.
Meanwhile, on the field it has only been disappointment after disappointment.
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The GOAT
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I assume retiring, hopefully just from international football.
He’ll announce that he’s going to retire after the next World Cup. 
Probably announcing himself the new manager of Portugal
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Probably going to do a new interview
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FIFY
I love how everyone is coming out to praise Ronaldo now, where were all these guys when he was getting mauled by the media and everyone and their mother called him a problem?
It’s probably for the best that he goes now. His son died earlier this year and he was playing against us days later where he was Man Utd’s best player. It’s the most popular sport in the world and the most cutthroat around.
Time to rest, go on and eat some fucking carbs.
Yes, how embarrassing at 37 years old lol
CR7 would be banging them in if he didn’t come back to the PL and went somewhere easier instead.
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Disharmony of Ronaldo fans
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He really should just retire and focus on other stuff. I’m sure 200m for 2.5 years pissing about in Saudi Arabia or wherever will be nice but no one is going to give a fuck. Even if he was going to go back to Sporting there’d be something for people to cling on to and a chance to win another meaningful league title. But it is only about money the other way and even if he scored a hundred goals in a season it’s not going to mean anything.
It’s the same with all these people. They have success and then it gets to their head.
Doesn’t matter if it’s Ronaldo or Musk, you either a die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. None of these guys quit while they’re ahead.
Imagine if Ronaldo had just retired at Real Madrid or even Juventus.
He’s still got enough in him to be a useful player in a CL club, he’d just have to accept starting 1 in 3 or 4 in the league to do so.
Otherwise go to Saudi and catch a bag before retiring with a final year at sporting.
Love the guy as a player but I think the game has started to pass him by with the obsession of pressing high. He’s always gonna be reliable as fuck for a goal given a chance but he is more of a passenger these days in the rest of the game. Not necessarily a problem if the team can support it but that limits his options massively.
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Should just go back to Sporting to complete the circle and retire.
Ronaldo isn’t finished. He just isn’t amongst the best in the world anymore. He could still score a lot of goals at many teams. Hell, he scores at United and they are s**t.
I would agree with that last season but whatever happened in the summer has definitely taken a toll on him.
He just doesn’t look as sharp in the pitch and clearly suffering the worst mental block of his career. It’s a cutthroat spot as well, in other instances a manager would stick by him and play him into form but he hasn’t had that at either Utd or Portugal. I can’t necessarily blame EtH for that, he’s building a new team, I wouldn’t focus or show trust to any 38 year old myself. Santos probably shot himself on the foot though. Dropping Ronaldo and winning got him some brownie points against Switzerland, dropping Ronaldo and losing in a QF against Morocco might have cost him his job. He’s getting mauled by people online and media.
On Ronaldo’s drop-off, it’s the sad thing when you reach your thirties really, you can fall off a cliff performance wise in an instant.
Benzema has suffered from it too after having an insane season.
Be interesting to see what he does next, there will be interest from top clubs if he is willing ot lower his demands a bit.
If he insists on staying on the wages he’s used to then I have bad news for him. Not only can a handful of clubs pay those sort of wages, those clubs simply don’t particularly need him at the minute.
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The pressing element isn’t why CR7 is fading into obscurity. Messi doesn’t press, Lewandowski doesn’t press and CR7 hasn’t pressed in probably a decade lol.
The reality is he had physically slowed down to the point that when he has the ball he isn’t even remotely a danger. For the first time ever too he looks shot to pieces mentally and doesn’t even seem to have the same type of timing and movement in the box.
The high press isn’t the reason he’s done, he’s done because father time has finally caught up with him and the mentality monster looks to finally be suffering from low confidence in front of goal.
He’s still got goals left in him but it was obvious from his later Real days and Juve days that his inclusion in any team was going to be detrimental due to his aura and his desire to receive the ball all the time to the detriment of the teams all round fluidity.
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He could easily take the same role as Sheringham did, or Ibrahimovic is doing now. Admit that your past your best, but you still have qualities to offer. Leadership, impact substitutions, inspiration for younger players. CR’s ego prevents this though.
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