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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I am and they would do it to avoid exactly what is happening right now.
It was entirely predictable that Ronaldo would act like this if A) He wasn't able to leave to play CL football, and B) He ended up not being a big part of the team's plans and was relegated to substitute/cup duty.
Whatever debacle this season has going on now, and not making the CL again would cost Man U a lot more money than covering $100k a week of Ronaldo's wages would have.
And personally I'm not sure Ten Hag really ever wanted to keep him to use him.
There were rumors that Ronaldo was willing to take a 30% pay cut (although who know is that's true). Problem being that $350k a week is probably still too much. But if Man U was willing to eat $100k of that, then he's probably moveable at $250K per week. This is all just an assumption but if I'm Man U the second he wants out and is acting like he's not going to be happy there then you should have tried harder to support a move.
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I'm game to rag on United at almost any opportunity, but I dont think theres a whole lot they did wrong here.
The only thing I can remotely think of is that initially I believe they wanted him 'gone gone' in that they didnt want to be paying him and they wanted to recoup some of their transfer fee that they paid Juve.
I vaguely recall that at some point United indicated that they'd let him go for free, voiding a transfer fee, but they didnt want to pay his wages. Any of it.
Which isnt unreasonable. Any percentage of £500k/week for a player not playing for you is a lot.
At the end of the day the responsibility for not finding a suitor has to rest with Ronaldo and his agent. His wages are outrageous for a player of his age, attitude and ability. Nobody wants to toss that grenade into their squad or wage structure for the meager returns that Ronaldo brings.
As for United? They should have let him rot at Juve and stew in Turin on his astronomical pay packet. Bringing him back to United was a huge mistake, which we're seeing play out now in almost 'Muskian' fashion.
The real winners here are Juventus who shed his wages and got ~£20M for the privilege. That was an astute bit of business.
Think about it. Nobody wanted him but Juve somehow unloaded him on a clueless United and now the music has stopped and no chairs are left but Ronaldo remains and now United see that literally nobody else wants him.