Anyone think Ronaldinho goal was better?
Cristiano Ronaldo - performances 2017/18
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Since he signed for Madrid, Stoke City have scored 448 in all competitions.
Still to be seen, how many City players have Madrid or Barca tried to lure? None that I can remember.
Well no, kaka and ibra were sold in the same summer for around £50m pounds(ibra was 60 + etoo iirc) so we did undersell him but the main issue wasnt the money. It was not investing it in the team properly. Obertan and Owen to replace Ronaldo and Tevez.
It's very odd on a Manchester United forum, considering the little fecker scored in two Champions League finals against us.
Levy accepted plenty of bids for his players when he had to. We had no choice by that point, even 08/09 was basically borrowed time. He wanted Madrid no matter what.We need Daniel Levy as our CEO - I said it at the time, stupid crazy decision to accept a bid
He is genuinely ridiculous. He is becoming more and more vital in the important moments as he gets older, despite other aspects of his game perhaps leaving him a bit. Unbelievable what he has done really.
And we show him his contract..
One of the greats no doubt.
Absolutely....but Zlatan's was opportunistic (just like his goal for LA Galaxy). If the keeper isn't out of position he doesn't score that one. Take nothing away from it though...
Well yes Barcelona signed Ibrahimovic after the Ronaldo his fee was a consequence of the ronaldo deal. Kaka went for only £5-6m more than Zidane and like two week before Ronaldo. So yes there was still 8 years between 2001 & 2009 where no deals came close to the Zidane deal.
As for not investing properly yes i agree but it was more of a case of most of the fee being used to pay off the Glazers PIK debts if i remember correctly. A larger fee probably wouldnt have benefitted the team anyway in that case.
Time and time again the man defies the odds. I have said this before but he is a player that the next generation should look up to in terms of professionalism.
Gerd Muller, Hugo Sanchez, Alan Shearer and Marco van Basten are some of the few players that can match him in the box in his current incarnation.
Gerd Muller, Hugo Sanchez, Alan Shearer and Marco van Basten are some of the few players that can match him in the box in his current incarnation.
That goal yesterday remembered this:
Both were better but this one was done against a bigger opponent.
It's amusing how his record in big games was seen as a negative when he was in his physical prime but he's completely obliterated that notion despite being past his physical prime.
He has a better team around him than ever. Simple as that
Did people knock on his big game performances at United between 2007-2009?
Just score the winner against Liverpool or City in the semi, Ronnie.
I think Ronaldo's is more impressive. More distance to cover to get to it, less time to reach it and he also has to get way higher to connect than Sanchez or MVB. Despite all that he hits it as perfectly as anyone ever will. The only thing that you can take away from Ronaldo's goal is that it goes into the bottom corner instead of the top corner, but for me that's irrelevant. Technically it's pretty much the perfect bicycle kick, and it fully encapsulates what a predatory goal machine and physical beast Ronaldo is. I haven't seen better ever.
I was watching today a video of Hugo Sanchez on the Mexican TV explaining that he had long conversations with Cristiano about the "Chilena", and the reason why Hugo scored so many during his carrer was because he started practicing that since he was 4 or 5 years old with his father, and he feels that it was just more difficult for Cristiano because that movement beside the talent needs a lot of training.
By the way he said his and Van Basten were better, only forgot to tell that Cristiano done it at a bigger stage.
He had scored one that wasn't given a while ago from a Deco shoulder pass, still rememebr being pissed at this
That one, and a different goal who shouldn't have been disallowed for him was in that friendly vs Spain I guess, or was it Nani fault, don't remember well, anyway he has been trying this for a long time, and for me that goal yesterday and the one he scored at Porto when he played for United are goals scored only by genius, even if he doesn't make his team play better
For once, I am very happy his wonder goal videoclips will always go together with the applause of my fellow Juve fans at the Stadium, we are clearly past our peak as a team and rebuilding soon but eventually won a few hearts showing genuine appreciation the very moment we had to.
Hey if you want any sort of consolation I think he was genuinely moved by Juventus fans reaction, the only time I can remember him being well received playing for Real Madrid was when he played vs us and United.
The other part where he said he always liked Juventus when he was a kid I am not so sure, unless he watched them under Lippi with the Del Pieros or Zidanes
It was the ref. Nani wasn't offside.
Was it? I thought it was that Nani was offside but the ball had already gone over the line before Nani touched it anyway.
I don’t remember, but Nani still stole the goal even if he wasn’t offside!
Scored his 40 goals this season in 37 matches.
he had a pretty garbage first half of the season and is second on highest scorer. Amazing
40+ goals in 9 out of the last 11 seasons.
What the feck?
What the feck?
Brutal goal-scoring consistency, would have thought as he got older it would slow down. In fact after his sluggish league start I thought the goal-scoring decline was on and he shut me up quickly.
Is his 1 game : 1 goal ratio at Madrid still intact?