CONFIRMED: RONALDO RETURNING TO UNITED!

Manchester United have confirmed this afternoon that Cristiano Ronaldo is returning to Old Trafford. A deal has been agreed with Juventus so all we are waiting on in an agreement in personal terms, visa and a medical, which we can presume will be a formality.

Having spent 12 years at Real Madrid and Juventus, Ronaldo is back and looking to help Ole Gunnar Solskjaer improve on last season’s second place finish and help us win some silverware.

Just 24 hours ago it appeared as though he was set for a move to Manchester City, despite earlier claims he would never play for our rivals. But when United showed interest, there was only one club he was joining.

In this afternoon’s press conference, Solskjaer more than hinted that the player could be on his way.

I didn’t think Cristiano would leave Juventus. If he ever wants to move away from Juventus he knows we are here.
For me he is the greatest player of all time. We have had a bit of communication and I know Bruno has been talking to him as well. There’s been a lot of speculation the last few days. Let’s see what happens with Cristiano, he’s a legend of this club. I played with him and coached him. He’s a tremendous human being. Let’s see what happens with Cristiano.

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One Comment

CR August 27, 2021

Wow!

Against low block teams I would suggest the following starting eleven now:

Ronaldo Cavani
Pogba Fernandes Sancho
Fred
Shaw Maguire Varane Awb
Ddg

Pace is not really that important when playing against low block teams. Creativity, movement and technique is. You get that in the form of Pogba, Fernandes and Sancho. Fred to mop up. After you score and the other team is forced to attack you can bring on Rashford and James etc from the bench to hit them on the counter. If you want more pace and work rate from the get go then you let one of them start in place of Pogba or Sancho.

And then against attacking teams I would suggest the following starting eleven:

Rashford Greenwood Sancho
Fernandes
Fred McTominay
Shaw Maguire Varane Awb
Henderson

This is the type of games that you bring on Ronaldo and Cavani from the bench, when you need a bit of experience to see games out. Alternatively, you can of course start one of them ahead of Greenwood and only bring in one of them as a sub. I would also try to play Telles together with Ronaldo and Cavani a bit, as he can give them those low and hard quality crosses into the box even better than Shaw.

I would consider shifting Martial now, along with Lingard. Lot's of players probably need to go out on loan as well. Amad and maybe Elanga come to mind, but there's many more. I don't see them getting much game time otherwise. Squad is pretty bloated but we still need a new CDM/DLP and there's a question mark over who the back-up RB is going to be.

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