Repeating a lie enough times won't make it true. For as much as I like Ronaldo, I'll say it myself he's nowhere near as good at football as you are at doing what you do.
Jesus, you've got to be kidding me
he roams freely in their attack. If Marcelo has the ball, he goes to the area, if Benzema has it, he either runs at the defender or shows around him, if Bale/Carvajal have the ball, he's at the penalty spot, when Kroos has the ball with Marcelo around he shadows Benzema, and almost the same with Modric. The only time he is around the LW position is with the 442 (Casemiro, Kroos, Modric, Isco) or in 60 meters counters, and even then he does come centrally a lot of the time because Real don't really look for 50 meter passes from their RB zone to Ronaldo at the back of the defenders like they used to, since he has lot some speed in those situations.
Just in the Napoli video
0:35 "or in 60 meters counters" "he just doesn't thrive... without another player opening spaces from him (be it...., Benzema..." yeah, I should've mentioned he also likes playing with Marcelo ahead of him, my bad
1:06 Another time he gets the ball 50 meters away from the goal to start a fast transition, and Marcelo is ahead of him
1:16 Look at him playing like a winger, completely vindicates your point, he's the second coming of Figo
1:25 "If Marcelo has the ball, he goes to the area"
1:50 he touched the ball near the line, look at him mastering the ABC of football widening the field, is like he has a mastermind to play in spaces (fact, he does), but he doesn't take on like a... winger? Second time he just passes back
1:56 oh look, whos the guy passing him the ball? "if Benzema has it, he either runs at the defender or shows around him"
2:05 Look at our boy in a central position, who are around and passes him the ball? "when Kroos has the ball with Marcelo around he shadows Benzema, and almost the same with Modric"
2:41 He's... on the right wing? I wouldn't expect... "he roams freely in their attack." "You can put him in the 3 attacking spots". Oh, and look who was in the right wing too, our Benzie, what did I say before?
3:02 Marcelo has the ball, where is Ronaldo running...?
3:10 Oh, he's back in the right, 50 meters away from the goal, and running at full steam towards the area to get a pass from the fullback, weird, also "or in 60 meters counters, and even then he does come centrally a lot of the time because Real don't really look for 50 meter passes from their RB zone to Ronaldo at the back of the defenders"
3:57 He's totally a winger again, not a second striker, that's why he gets the ball, goes inside and passes to Marcelo (the real LW of Real Madrid) to run inside to shoot
4:12 Oh, is Ronaldo, almost centrally and 60 meters away from the goal on a counter!
5:03 Furthest player in the pitch for Real Madrid, and playing central when the ball is in their right flank, hmmm...
5:10 Oh, a "winger",
if our Ronaldo doesn't whiff the control what would he most likely do? 1) put the ball to the inside and look to shoot, 2) Kill the ball there and look for a pass to Benzema, 3) He doesn't miss the control, he totally wants to go outside to cross with his weaker foo into 3 defenders so Benzema scores a header!
5:27 He's not roaming freely and playing in the center as a striker, big bad Benzema just bullied him out of the wing
6:01 Somebody do something, Benzema won't leave the wing!
6:09 Really, at this point you might still want to convince me that Ronaldo doesn't like being a striker at all, also he botches a backheel pass "doesn't thrive playing backwards to the goal"
6:20
"Bale/Carvajal have the ball, he's at the penalty spot" Come on, I know it's James, not Bale, and he's not exactly on the penalty spot... but you could cut me some slack
So, if I'm counting right he starts 7 times on the left wing (can stretch it to 8) with 6 of them consecutive at the start of the game, 9 times in a central (striker) position that would be 8 if we take away his pass to Marcelo, and 2 from the right wing. He creates two good chances from the left, 2 from the mid and 2 from the right (assist)
That's your better weapon to ilustrate how Ronaldo is the player you say it is and not what I say?, one where he ends up playing where he roams most nowadays (center) without really fixating to the left more than 30 minutes and a game vs Las Palmas? At least I showed you a video of the guy making history, not a bunch of 1-2's and running at spaces vs Napoli or Las Palmas.
Btw, I'm not going to make another run like that for the Las Palmas video but it basically shows what I was saying, he seems dangerous with space ahead and around the area, all the instances where he comes to do a pass back or tries something out of the ordinary for Real Madrid (5:00) it's not what you would consider his biggest selling point. I maintain that his biggest weapon is what he offers scoring-wise, the instances where he plays in his "best position" in both videos he doesn't do anything another Real Madrid caliber player wouldn't do, hence why I said "position doesn't matter". His asset is being where he can do damage, not with an anchor to the place he used to play in for a decade.
If you don't see a difference between that Ronaldo and the one you just showed, we can close this conversation for the rest of the year
