Feedingseagulls
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You couldn't try and spin that version of events if you tried. Agitating for a move is PRECISELY what he tried to do, hence the summer long saga. This could have been very easily sorted within a day if he'd wanted it to be
Let's do some history here Brad.
Early in the post season Ronaldo told us he hoped to have an announcement to make in a couple of days.
Note that this was not a decision - when a journalist tried to use this term Ronaldo was quick to correct him in no uncertain terms. You still portrayed him as making a 'decision' iirc.
That timescale surely precluded it being any sort of announcement about a move - that would take much longer surely - also it seems inconceivable that a transfer of such a player would precede a major summer international tournament.
No matter - Brad proclaims 'this means he's going' iirc.
The 'announcement' (still not a 'decision' note) is then advertised as suffering a delay - maybe 2 weeks - that'd still be before the tournament - still not a sensible timescale for a transfer announcement.
We then go into 'nothing being said until after the tournament' mode.
(The suggestion I & others later made is that something Ronaldo expected to happen over this period did not - because there is then a change.)
Only after all that do we start to hear of a declared interest to move this year - yet oddly an interview suggesting this also refers to Ronaldo being forgiven by Utd fans after scoring goals - the latter doesn't match with someone definitely leaving tbh.
When we get to the post-summer summary of the events Ronaldo again explicitly tells us that the Moscow result affected his decision to think about leaving - this matches everything he told us throughout the summer - he obviously only decided he'd definitely like to move later in the summer.
You take Ronaldo's admission of a later decision as an indication that your suggestion of an earlier decision was true - but it doesn't provide any of the evidence you need for that. On the very same day as you want to interpret some ill-defined statements as indicating he'd decided before Moscow, Ronaldo explicitly states he has not yet made any decision regarding Real.
You allowed your emotion to falsely interpet many things this summer - and you are still so afflicted!