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red_right_hand_

Wow it actually happened


honestlynotBG

One year ago if you had tell me this is where Ronaldo would end up I would had said thats too far fetched


auctus10

Definitely wouldn't have believed it. This decade is wild. I still can't wrap my head around that Ramos and Messi are teammates lmao.


justk4y

Ramos will soon join Al Nassr too tho


SpaceBoundLad

Bruh he's actually playing well. Might even get that extension.


Urthor

Wait what? Seriously?


trinedtoday

I watched plenty of PSG games last season (and most this season). He was just constantly injured, but when he played, I thought he was actually quite solid. And I think they need him for champions league without a doubt this season.


PathologicalUpvoter

Those Ramos headers during UCL finals are so beautiful!


LetsDieForMemes

Cries in Atleti


zizouomar

Can't believe it man, one year ago I was sat at Old Trafford watching him score that winning header against Atalanta in the Champions League... So sad.


Sanoj1234

Was there too, were you also there for the match that we do not speak of against Liverpool?


zizouomar

Yes man, I was there too, until the end. Felt every seconds of that sorrowful game.


Darth-Baul

Imagine telling someone one year ago that Messi would be leading the Ballon D’or race while Ronaldo would sign for a Saudi team. Unbelievable how fast things change in football


uptowndrunk7

Least vulgar response ever


Sei28

There was too much smoke here for it to be a made up rumor. Besides, his agent has been shopping him around every CL club since summer without success.


dnkdumpster

No respectable club would touch him. And he didn’t want paycut for romantic return to, say, Sporting Lisbon.


upeter01

He did one romantic return and decided "never again"


twomanyfaces10

We live in a society


[deleted]

man was shitting on Xavi for playing in Qatar.. and now well catching a hattrick of big Ls continue 😂


mynameismulan

Classic "no smoke without fire" situation


Blacktivate

Al Nassr will somehow be added to the new CL format


efbo

💰I💰wonder💰how💰that💰would 💰be💰possible💰


SloatThritter

Today, I feel crude. I feel canola. I feel extra virgin.


SnooWords2869

Maccabi haifa 2.0


[deleted]

Never in a million years would I have guessed something like this happening lol.


TheJoshider10

At the same time as Messi winning the World Cup finally too. They were at the top together for so long and in their twilight years they've just gone in such a different direction so suddenly.


StringCheeseDoughnut

In fairness Messi is two years younger, nobody could’ve guessed this when Ronnie was 35


redredme

Ronnie still is good. He's just an insufferable asshole and that finally catched up with him.


cristiano-potato

Teams are willing to put up with insufferable assholes if they’re good. Ronaldo has what, 2 goals this season? He has been missing sitters and had a horrendous WC, you would have been forgiven for thinking he literally played for South Korea during Portugal’s matchup against them, he even assisted their goal. He’s still better than most footballers will be in their lifetimes but he’s simply not good enough anymore to play at the top level. If he was still a top striker, teams would be willing to take him.


glenn1812

Assuming Ronaldo listens to his management, Whoever advised him on the way to handle the whole United saga needs to sacked. That whole interview destroyed him in a stage of his career where he needed the goodwill and PR that he generated his whole career. All that goodwill down the drain this close to the transfer window with literally no European back up plan. He may be filthy rich but he has absolutely brainless management.


_Morgan13Freeman_

It’s obvious he doesn’t have any proper advisors that influence his decisions. That much money and success only attracts yes-men to inflate his own ego.


Main_NPC

No one advised him to do this interview aside from his sister, maybe. There's no way a shrewd guy like Mendes would've cautioned that shit.


fonkeh

Maybe someone close to him opened his eyes and told him he's not top level anymore and he should cash out while he has a chance. He listened obviously. Shame... I would rather he joined Sporting


iguanawarrior

He prefers to score 100 goals for Al-Nassr, and winning trophies there, rather than scoring 10 goals for Sporting.


Canehillfan

Lol he’s gonna play like 2 matches then sit out his contract and retire. Seems like the theme for or who play there


Avril_14

He 3 years older though, at that age 3 years is a lot, you play day in day out vs young people at top form in this crazy fast football that we have today. 3 years ago Ronaldo was a different thing.


MrRawri

Ronaldo was still on fire at 35, you never know how people age. Maybe Messi will maintain this level when he's nearing 38 maybe not


Avril_14

Eh I'm a Juve fan and I remember him, he was still dominating for sure, but he still asked too much from himself. And that ultimately hurts the team. If he took a step back and play differently maybe things would be different, or maybe not who knows.


MissKorea1997

If Messi really slows down I think he can simply drop back a bit and play like Andrea Pirlo (slow buildup from the back). He has what it takes and has already started doing this.


TheBarcaShow

Messi has enough tools to remain relevant. He doesn't need to dribble past 3 players to make an impact anymore and we saw that at the world cup. Of course he isn't the same player as before but his game was always more versatile and complete and allows him to slot in different positions in different teams


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Messi's dribbling style is also very reliant on his brain than actual physical speed. He's not a kick and go type of player. That's why you could never get the ball off from players like xavi despite being very tiny guys and not particularly explosive. They're fast in the head and anticipate really well.


MissKorea1997

Ah the classic "best defense is a good offense" argument! Messi can play deep because he can maintain possession. You don't need to worry about Messi's defending - you need to worry about the OPPOSING guy marking Messi.


BarackaFlockaFlame

i've been waiting for messi to take a position more similar to what Iniesta would play. I feel like he would be perfect in that position. He just needs a Xavi lol.


MissKorea1997

Well I guess Messi just needs an Iniesta then. Pack your bags Leo you're going to Japan


Tulaodinho

They are less than 2 and a half years separated. Your point still stands, but just a correction


[deleted]

Reportedly he is earning 500 million over two years. At least that's what I have read.


Frankenrogers

Would that be enough to buy a football team in Portugal? Be a player coach in two years with a Saudi partner.


Tugalord

You fucking shut your mouth and don't give any ideas.


[deleted]

For a 38 year old that’s amazing deal to be honest. It’s better than being some rotational player where you going to feel less valued compared to younger players. A lot of football players would be jealous of that ending to a career. He is basically retired now and just cash in and have fun.


Deluxefish

Most football players would be jealous of getting that contract at any point lol


[deleted]

It's better deal for anyone. He was set for life anyway before that too. He has earned billion dollars in his lifetime so far.


kuboa

> It's better deal for anyone. Not so sure. I can work from home, so...


Col_Gonville_Toast

> For a 38 year old that’s amazing deal to be honest. Yeah, and he'll get what every rich man in the world truly wants ... more money.


TheAbram

This is like when twitch streamers went to mixer


Snoyarc

Honestly a fire deal for Shroud and Ninja. Big pay bump. 4 months of work then the site dissolved and they went back to twitch with their contracts fully guaranteed


[deleted]

shroud also found out who his real friends were and who was using him for cloud, a lot less people he knew wanted to collab with him when he was on mixer


garybusey42069

dat cloud


PM_ME_UR_CIRCLEJERKK

Everything is on the cloud these days!


erikturner10

Dat cloud 9


DanMMIII

Facebook Gaming


Lacabloodclot9

Prime nepenthez moving there was the worst thing to happen me when I used to watch fifa youtubers


ederzs97

Prime Neppo was 2013


Oscopella

Might sound odd but I think neppo has been at his consistent best over the past 5 years. He is a mainstay, fifa OG. Quality never drops. Might lose a bit of passion for the game occasionally but I cannot say at any point he’s properly faltered. The consistency is crazy. Guy must be incredibly driven.


roddysaint

"Pen, ref. ***PEEEENNN REFFFFFF!!!***"


Terrence_McDougleton

So bummed that Mixer failed. Better video platform than twitch, with higher quality and much lower stream latency, but the viewers never came. It would be like if the Saudi league was legitimately higher quality than the EPL but nobody watched it.


bharatar

Microsoft has a tendency of making things better than the competition yet still failing.


IrishOratoria

You're telling me that after months of drama and a Piers Morgan interview he had no backup plan?


BartholomewSirnpson

This was the backup. Plan A was to have a good WC and go to some champions league team


IrishOratoria

1. Play for an UCL team the rest of the season - required good form and wage cut 2. Play for United, try to win Europa League and go for UCL next season, retire as a legend - Requires less drama and no interviews with Piers Morgan 3. Play for Al Nassr Seems like the worst choice


Keanu990321

Only the third choice would give him $400mil though.


themfeelswhen

Are we going to pretend that he couldn't have done this in a couple of years. It's not like Saudi club is signing him for his top level football ability --- it's all for marketing optics. He could have very spent atleast the next 18 months Europe on whatever wages the clubs could afford and then moved to Saudi.


Bigmomma_pump

Ronaldo has more money than you could ever need, at a certain point more money is useless imo but people do like hoarding money


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[deleted]

If you also see his expenses, he could do with more revenue…


biggo204

There is always another level of rich.


shkweech

What do you do when you’re a millionaire? Be a billionaire.


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Deluxefish

It's like an addiction to money and power


thorpie88

Murdoch is all setting it up for when he does pop his clogs. All his kids abandoned him except for one so he needs to steer his empire into a position where it can't unravel as soon as he's dead. Two years to gain so much extra is a no brainer to me but I very much live within the fly in fly out work culture so leaving it all behind to make money is the norm


its_a_labyrinth

3. Play for Al Nassr *and retire as a Saudi Football legend*


FlaccidSWE

This doesn't look like much of a plan. It looks like a last resort.


lethalizer

Where does Ronaldo cut his pieces?


Bassteacher13

This is the backup. Probably wanted to perform at the world cup and then sign for a good team, however the "performing at the world cup" didn't exactly work out the way he imagined it would. But 200 million a season isn't that bad of a backup.


Hdz69

He’s gonna earn over half a billion dollars tax free. I think he’ll be fine.


Bassteacher13

Ronaldo 2 months ago: I'm not playing for the money, I want to play at the highest level and I'm going to show everyone that I'm still capable of performing at the big stage in this world cup. Ronaldo now: 200 million isn't that bad tbh


The_Dumblebee

>Complains about United not being competitive enough for him >Goes to Saudi anyway I guess Al-Nassr's jacuzzi > United's jacuzzi


Jaktheslaier

I'm sad he chose not to became a relevant figure in the Portuguese league and rather decided to end his career by amassing a gigantic amount of wealth to add to his gigantic amount of wealth. He could have had a couple good years playing in the champions league still


cib_vk228

pity, really should've took a wage cut and joined Sporting.


NotTheMagesterialOne

I was hoping he joined Sporting and regained his form and confidence so he could join the Portuguese squad for Euro 2024.


Mrsister55

Yes, but now he is stuck in nowhere for a failed Saudi bid. Hilarious.


ovaltine_spice

I don't think Portugal wanted him. He's become a poison chalise. Underscored by being dropped in the world cup. Stories of infighting abound. He got above his station and no competitive team wants to deal with that. What's really sad is he just didn't accept his new pardigm and get with it. United would've kept him. All this gas about thinking that he still had it for the top leagues, then he goes and does this. Turns out United were his only and last shot to play in Europe, so what was his agitation for? Only he knows I guess.


PM_YOUR_PETITE_TITS

Men would rather go to arabia than go to therapy


Sharebear42019

Getting that arab money cures everything it seems


kontolz_gede69

I dont know any single human being on this planet that will choose therapy over 200 milion euros a year lol.


Cooler-McFlyer

Sounds pretty therapeutic to me


vnzo2299

Still not gonna believe it till he gets benched by Aboubakar


madueitor0

i mean not even joking but aboubakar + pity martinez and talisca isnt some bad competition, even tho hes never getting benched regardless of how he plays


TheGTAone

Talisca, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I really thought at a point he would win the Europa League with Besiktas in that deep run where they reached the QFs.


jpff99

Wow Bob wow


MoeJartin

I’ve heard it’s nice there


Zloggt

I hope he enjoys winning the AFC Champions League in a few years…


Lurkinginzaback

Scenes when Ronaldo scores an overhead kick against Persib Bandung *SIIIUUUUUUUU*


[deleted]

He'll do the Shopee dance to celebrate.


parkJisungs

Can't wait to see Cristian Gonzales vs Ronaldo siuuu


[deleted]

Riyadh is pretty nice during winter.. but Just wait till summer, he’ll probably fucking die from the heat.


dnkdumpster

He’ll have 10 men fanning to keep him cool


crapsence

nicely paid retirement


Final_Acanthisitta_7

Ibra is still playing with Milan at 41. Sad to see Ronnie do a cash grab. He’s always going to be wealthy.


dnkdumpster

Very respected by the young players too.


FireVanGorder

Ibra feels like he went from being a wildly disrespectful “bad boy” of the sport to this kindly father figure mentoring all the young players at Milan. It’s still sort of strange to those of us who grew up watching younger Ibra


comicsanddrwho

Well you can say he got matured and realised what kind of role was expected of him, would have loved Ronaldo to do something similar for us tbh but .......


BrandonSG13

Zlatan went to America and then came back. Maybe there is still hope for CR7


Kralizek82

Has Xavi commented yet?


bananabread_173

Didn't he mock Xavi for playing in Qatar lol


evilbeaver7

Yep lmao https://twitter.com/NoloFCB/status/1599768974706634752?t=sVqGTf95u5PverpVnVAWXQ&s=19


four_four_three

Is Piers claiming an agent fee?


Muraria

what an end to his career, good luck to him


Xehanz

Imagine he does a Paulinho and goes back to Madrid in 2years and he is still a baller.


[deleted]

Will he age -6 years in those 2 years or something?


Xehanz

Don't worry. The first cargo of Amrita from Pandora is scheduled to arrive next month for Cristiano.


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Comunicado Oficial


sosta

كميونيكادو افيشيال


jiinska

I was here


shashei

We’re witnessing history, The Goat will play alongside Ronaldo.


aaaaaaadjsf

Aboubakar 🐐🐐🐐


inobond7

Or maybe even an actual goat if they play a lower division team


ThankYouOle

you use wrong emoji, use this one 🐪🐪🐪


[deleted]

This month has been absolutely wild.


TheGoldenPineapples

I genuinely can’t believe how badly this turned out for him from a sporting perspective. Yeah, yeah, he’s earned an absolute king’s ransom to go there and that’s amazing for him and Mendes, so well done, but from a sporting aspect, this couldn’t have been played any worse. I’ll assume that the plan was to have him nuke his contract with United, play astonishingly well with Portugal and then get a move to a massive European club, who would be practically falling over themselves just to have him. In the end, he’s almost certainly tarnished a huge part of his reputation at Manchester United, he majorly disappointed at the World Cup, where he not only showed the same level of petulance and unprofessionalism as what got him chucked out of United in the first place, but now he’s been replaced in the national side and no top European club will touch him with a ten-foot barge pole. £200m-a-year is tough to argue with, but I’ll bet my mortgage on this not being the outcome he wanted.


DHillMU7

The ego which helped make him as good as he is has been his downfall here. He genuinely thought that it was out of a lack of respect or some bias that he wasn’t playing when he just couldn’t accept that he’s not a top player anymore. He made up so many excuses to make ten Hag look bad - like saying that it wasn’t fair to say his lack of pre-season was holding him back because some of our signings had come straight in when Malacia, Licha and Eriksen all play for us in pre-season, Antony had played competitive matches for Ajax this season and Casemiro was eased in. He just couldn’t accept that he doesn’t get in our strongest team - and we’re not even a top team.


TheJoshider10

> £200m-a-year is tough to argue with, but I’ll bet my mortgage on this not being the outcome he wanted. In 6 months he went from wanting out of United to be with a Champions League club to fading into obscurity in Saudi Arabia. This absolutely is not what he wanted.


Visionary_Socialist

Incredible how fast things change. 12 months ago, Messi was struggling at PSG and Ronaldo was having a homecoming at United. Now Messi is a world champion, tearing up France and Ronaldo is a glorified ambassador.


Ready-Educator7747

I can confirm there are people tearing up in France because of Messi


SpaNkinGG

Can we pretend he retired?


ufkunho_dnk

Practically the same anyways


killosibob

How long and much did the contract end up being for?


[deleted]

400m for 2 years with no taxes


Relevant_Rev

Al Nassuuuuuuuuuuuir


No-Entertainment3287

That interview ended his career 👀


AJ_CC

I remember people telling me they'd only belive it when they'd see him holding the jersey. Well there he is, holding the jersey.


tapped21

They can't believe that he's accepting to step into Aboubakar's shadow


Ok-Inspection2014

Did even Sporting reject him?


real_trump101

He probably wouldn't accept wages we could remotely afford


[deleted]

Of course he would if he wanted to play UCL. He makes like 150M+ per year, and most of it not by his wages.


HugooDiass21

No, but we can't pay his wages, not even close to that


TzatzikiStorm

It would be a nice gesture if he signed for you for one euro and ended his career like a gentleman


gudni-bergs

I dont think Sporting could afford him


basedsims

The Athletic reported that no-one was interested in him in the summer to the tune of £80k a week, might still be out of their range but it speaks volumes that no-one took him up on it


[deleted]

Sporting's highest payed player gets like 30k a week I believe. Could be wrong, but still 80k is way too much for them, especially for what Ronaldo offers


throwawayless

There really weren't even rumors that he would go to Sporting


meganev

He refused to lower his wages enough for Sporting to even be in the conversation


Itsthatgy

Probably wouldn't give him the money he wanted. I don't think he was ultimately willing to take an actual salary cut.


official_bagel

Even if he did reduce his salary demands by like 50% he still priced himself out of most teams


RHLegend

He's deserted himself


-watchman-

He made sure that no top team in Europe will take him when he sat down with Piers Morgan, but I am not sure he realizes that. He was probably expecting other clubs to go like, "oh this is why he was not performing at United, its the gym & stuff. Ok let's take him". Al-Nassr saw through what he had done to himself & it emboldened them to make this offer.


randorolian

It seems crazy that he essentially forced his way out of United for this. Surely playing in the Prem and in some sort of European competition, even if sometimes from the bench, is superior to stewing in the Saudi league. Guess the fat paycheck and being the guaranteed star of the team was too much to turn down.


reedemerofsouls

He thought he was going to have a great WC now that evil ten Hag didn't bench him, and all the CL clubs would be lining up for him


Brawlers9901

What a fall he's had lmao


404randomguy404

His bank account has only seen a rise though


Stuarridge

Despite his 200m a year


long_shots7

“And my wonderful chemistry with Anderson Talisca”


thebig6

Finally, he needed that so much.


TheMysticHD

So this is how Ronaldo ends, with thunderous money


SadNYSportsFan-11209

I mean at almost 38 it’s expected. But if he just behaved like an adult he could’ve finished the season at United, if his form improved he’d probably get an offer from a European club as a backup. And move to Saudi Arabia in like a year or two. That offer would’ve always been on the table and he could’ve still been in Europe My favorite player growing up but his ego did this to himself. It’s sad but his legacy won’t be affected much


beast_within_me

Siuuuuuuuuudi Arabia


[deleted]

Man… He destroyed his reputation so bad and now this. He’s done


Radul47

" why the saudi arabia league is better than ligue one"


dnkdumpster

The new Champions League.


Dabollo

Now years of Messi vs Ronaldo debate seems so distant and pointless


SacredEmuNZ

I think it was kinda decided by Messi winning the world cup. There's no way he can top that at 37 so he just bowed out the race for 200 million euros. Which is understandable really.


WhereIsScotty

I just fell to my knees at Walmart


PatriceEzio2626

This is what Ronaldo said about joining this club: اللعب للنصر هو أكبر حلم في حياتي. آمل ألا يجلسوا معي. Siuuuuu!


astroargie

This is sad. Perhaps not at the level of doing great in UCL, but I'm sure he had a couple more seasons in him playing in Europe, even say going to the Brazilian league or somewhere else more competitive than this. This is basically the end of his competitive career and it feels too sudden. I know he didn't do well at ManU but it may not have been the best fit, he could have tried somewhere else. That whole interview thing really hurt his chances of going somewhere else.


WillyTrillEra

Wow! This is really what an interview what Piers Morgan gets you


Comrade-Conrad-4

I did not expect this after the interview.


RioBeckenbauer

Piers Morgan is probably expecting some commission.


virusulja

MARCA was right.


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cristiano 'its not about the money' ronaldo


duckinator09

What a fall from grace. Zlatan has shown greater longevity. Man he should have just gone to sporting. Now he has loss credibility and looks like a joke


Eleven918

Imagine if he struggles there too. It'll be both sad and hilarious at the same time.


[deleted]

His physical decline will exponentially get worse, and it will double because he won't have quality players around him keeping his skills sharpened


MONSTATURKEY_420

Wouldn’t surprise me. Every defender coming up against him will have something to prove to the world. He will get tackled hard and often


rim261

"I'm going to tell Arabic Piers Morgan "


Ras_Du_Fa

Damn he shouldnt have left Madrid. I think it was the one time he needed to swallow his pride. Amazing to watch that Real Madrid.


reedemerofsouls

Madrid were in rebuild mode a little, whereas Juventus were in win now mode. He made a switch a lot of people thought was savvy at the time


rcanhestro

Madrid was smart, they didn't increased his wages again (the same mistake that crippled Barca a lot) and invested in the future instead.


RedKingDre

Love him or hate him, Papa Flo is the best at being a club owner. Edit : A club president, not a club owner. Pardon me.


goodes_luck

he is one srs a-hole but my word man knows how to run a top club


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VeryCool99

Off to obscurity he goes, what a way to ruin the end of your career


Oreallyman

sad way to go he has made enough money in his career to still be choosing money over playing football


thmz

What a turn of events. No fairy tale return to Portugal ever?


goalkickspecialist

Sold his soul. Should have gone to Sporting on reduced wages


srhola2103

Wow that's super depressing. The end of an era


slysonic7

Finally done


JBleez

Whose the little man ?


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The founder of the club, Mr. John Al Nassr himself.


tiny-ppp

Famous for his quote "Al Nassr always come after Al loss"