The Mailbox reckons Cristiano Ronaldo made some valid points but the medium renders them moot. Also: the change Everton so desperately need...
Self before side, every time: Cristiano Ronaldo’s point lost amid the startling vanity…The Mailbox reckons Cristiano Ronaldo made some valid points but the medium renders them moot. Also: the change Everton so desperately need.I’m clearly half a day or so late with my reaction to the Ronaldo guff, but the story broke a little late for me to properly pore over on Sunday night and I wanted to put my thoughts in order this morning to some extent.
It’s been clear for a long time that Ronaldo had transitioned from a footballer to a vanity project, prioritising personal accolades and scoring records over the good of the team for half a decade at this point. If the team’s successes aligned with his own, then great. Otherwise, fingers got pointed at the lesser beings he had to share a pitch with. Their fault, obviously.
As a final observation, I’ve found that my foremost impression of Ronaldo has shifted over the years and taken a further hit on Monday morning. There was a time when hearing his name mentioned brought memories of his free-kick against Portsmouth. That seemed to sum up what he’d brought to the game in his first 5-6 seasons.
I did some work with him, and the impact was visible there too. No one would say no to him. Ideas that he rejected were binned immediately, even though they were good, and his talent was not in that area, his opinion was given prominence. My skill in that area of work was ignored. It’s no secret at all that the Glazers have been skimming money off the top for themselves at the expense of the club and its facilities – it’s their business, they can do this, but this is a harder sell when we’ve got a leaky stadium and we’re falling ever behind our rivals and now clubs like Newcastle will be investing serious money into training facilities, academies, the stadium etc. So to that extent, I do agree in a way that Ronaldo was right to say something about that.
Ronaldo is 37 years old and in a massive decline, last season he scored goals but at the detriment to the team, he talks of being disrespected by the Manager a man who covered for him when absent pre-season, a man who said he had permission to leave when he flounced out of the stadium before the match had ended and a man who when Ronaldo refused to come on as a sub forgave him and gave him another chance.
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