Mails: United need to break bank for Ronaldo

Mails: United need to break bank for Ronaldo

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Why not CR7?
United’s biggest issues at the moment are their inability to consistently pick up points and their misuse/inability to use Pogba.
Granted he has started to perform better, he is however looking like an extraordinarily expensive purchase.
What United should have done is go all out for one of the best goal scorers in the world. They can afford Messi (Pogba+Di Maria+a bit more), but obviously wouldn’t come.
I think Neymar & Suarez are in a similar boat so Barça is a no. The only runaway goalscorer consistently in the premiership is Aguero and there’s no chance there, so that brings us to their realistic options.
I think Bale would have interest, but his purchased fee means even his release clause might be too much for United.
Aubameyang is the sort of player they could be purchasing, so I assume he’s said no to the them on the Champions League front.
Ultimately, despite his age I think United should be doing everything they can to get Ronaldo back. I know he’d be tough to get, and would cost silly money for a 31 year old, but he’d win them more points over the next 2/3 seasons than any other player could. His affinity with the club would maybe be enough for him to put the champions league aside for one season, where if they got back, they’d be ripe for picking up the likes of Aubameyang, Veratti, Reus, and all the other expensive and ambitious players just out of their reach at the moment.
What price for Ronaldo? £60m? £80? £120?
Wages of Ibra and Rooney put together?
However much it would cost, it would secure their immediate future.
And for those saying it would break the transfer market (like the Pogba deal), they mustn’t realise that is exactly what United want, pushing Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal (even Chelsea), out of their competitive spectrum.
KC (I’d try for Reus too)

More on Woodburn hysteria
I noted that Mediawatch has moved beyond taking the p*ss out of the shocking state of tabloid journalism and is now highlighting the morally dubious actions of tabloids and their affiliated gambling sites. Top notch work, it’s important everyone works together to constantly remind the general public that the S*n is complete trash run by irredeemable ars*holes who only care about making money and controlling people’s opinions so they can make money off said people.

Also, Ben Woodburn is guaranteed future Liverpool Captain/Club Hero/England Captain/Top Goalscorer/World Cup Winner/Best Player of All Time. I mean, he’s scored one goal from 6 yards out whilst unmarked against a team from a lower division at home, in a competition no-one involved in considers greater than third priority. It’s nailed on. Jesus.
Matt, LFC.

Well done to the little Reds.

* Chelsea had an excellent chance to win the title the previous year, but failed, largely due to Mourinho’s blinkered reliance on strikers who were past their prime (Torres, Eto’O).

*In 2014-15, even as they were on their way to the title, they were consistently failing to maintain leads, which wasn’t the Mourinho way.

*It was clear that the side were fading in the latter part of that season.

I closed that letter with the statement that we’d see if Mourinho could adapt in the following season. As we know, Chelsea collapsed. That was certainly a one-off, but it did nothing to suggest he was still a top manager.

In the letter to which Buchule replied, I noted that Mourinho hasn’t done all that badly at Manchester United. But he’s also given no indication yet that he can transform the side into title contenders. Plus, the competition is now tougher by several orders of magnitude. I don’t think Mourinho is a bad manager; I just don’t think he can match Guardiola, Klopp, and Conte.

Obviously, time will tell, and I love to admit when I’ve been wrong, because it means I’ve learned something.
Peter G, Pennsylvania, USA

Tribute for Chapecoense
I had a thought about a fitting tribute to those who passed away.

Now obviously, my thoughts are inconsequential, but in light of all the goodwill going the clubs way, I just wanted to outline what I think would make a marvellous tribute.

Don’t cancel the final – postpone it for 10 days. Allow Chapeconse to assemble ( on loan / short term contracts ) a team of Brazilian greats and let them play the final in tribute to the people who lost their lives.

Kaka, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Roberto Carlos, Cafu, Romario, Gilberto Silva, Dunga, Neymar, Julio Cesar – even  Pele, Zico and the like could trot out on to the field and represent the club.  Perhaps even spread the net further and field a World 11.

It might reduce the final to a Testimonial, but what a way for the football community to come together  to honour those that passed.
Doug, AFC, Belfast

Time for a balanced view
Interesting debate on the subject of PFM coverage in F365, and whether positive discrimination is taking place.

Short answer, it’s not. The point of a balanced view isn’t to see things from every side, its to provide a counterbalance to prevailing and extreme views.

Football365 has long derided PFMs for their xenophobic and blinkered views on, well, pretty much everything. The mainstream tabloid media laps it up and publishes it en masse, as the know that those who agree will continue to read their rags, and those that don’t will be incensed and probably drawn in via comments, mails or just water cooler chat. Either way, the echo chamber is strengthened, and with it those that rely on the echoes.

We rarely hear about the achievements of foreign coaches, or get good coverage of foreign leagues. All we get is Robbie Savage saying Swansea should have appointed Giggs because he took good free kicks and is Welsh, and that he should use it as a stepping stone to the Man U job because.

We hear Redknapp verbally handjobbing Sherwood at every opportunity, and Sutton mouthing off about all kinds of nonsense.

So we need a balanced view from sites like F365 to offer the alternative. We don’t need to hear from the poor put upon PFM dinosaurs because we already hear nothing but their outdated, racist, inaccurate gibbering, and some of us want something else.

If you think the poor loud majority need more airtime I suggest you go live in America and wave little Republican flags because your idol awaits you with deportation papers.

Keep up the good work F365, we of sane and open mind salute you.
Alay, N15 Gooner

Vintage Henrik Larsson
A recent article on a Celtic forum I frequent contained a question from a non-Celtic fan, where do you rank Henrik Larsson?