The uncertainty surrounding Cristiano Ronaldo’s future has been a major talking point at Manchester United. It’s the question on everybody’s lips: just what should United do with the 37-year-old?
Ronaldo scored 24 goals in all competitions for United in 2021-22 but reportedly wants to leave the club and has started on the bench in three of Erik ten Hag’s first four games.
We’ve taken a look at what pundits and former players have said about the situation.
Wayne Rooney
“I think United should let Cristiano Ronaldo go,” Rooney wrote in his column for The Times.
“It’s not that Ronaldo can’t play in a Ten Hag team. He can play in any team. Ronny will always score you goals. But my personal view is that United aren’t ready to challenge for the title now, so the aim has to be to build a team that can win the league in the next three to four years, and you have to plan for that.
“If the reports are true that Cristiano wants to leave the club, then United should allow him to go and get a No.9 in who is going to be there for the next three or four years and really help them build a team that can be successful. Ten Hag has to be given time to do it.”
Rio Ferdinand
“People are saying you’ve got to let Ronaldo go,” Ferdinand told William Hill. “Well, get someone in who can score 25 goals first.
“Darwin Nunez has gone, Erling Haaland has gone and Robert Lewandowski has gone. They were the three players that you were thinking, ‘These are the only ones that you were going to go for that will outright come into the Manchester United team immediately.’ They’re gone.
“So Manchester United can’t let Ronaldo go, they can’t. Even if he’s begging to go, they just can’t let him go. It’s not the right thing to do, I don’t think.”
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Gary Neville
“Ronaldo’s achievements in football have gone beyond anything that anybody could have wished for and imagined,” Neville said on The Overlap.
“He will go down as one of the top players of all time and always will be. What happens this summer at Manchester United will be forgotten about in 20 years.
“But it’s unpalatable for me to watch as an ex-Manchester United captain, thinking that at this moment in time the star player in the dressing room is playing…
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