Has hubris finally caught up with Cristiano Ronaldo? Because his desire for UCL football seems incompatible with what he can offer a club. twoht
Has Cristiano Ronaldo damaged his brand with his own hubris this time?Has hubris finally caught up with Cristiano Ronaldo? Because his desire for UCL football seems incompatible with what he can offer a club.Cristiano Ronaldo is all about the mythology building. It’s explicit in that relentless demand for betterment and in the endless chase for records and trophies. This has always been a player who’s given the impression of having one eye on his legacy. He never just wanted to be the greatest.
If he harboured ambitions of single-handedly dragging United to winning the Champions League through sheer strength of will last season, that ambition floundered and eventually foundered at the first knockout stage against Atletico Madrid. If he harboured ambitions of single-handedly dragging United to the Carabao Cu- well, you get the picture.
Because when we consider all of the above, it’s difficult to avoid the conclusion that on this occasion, his hubris has got the better of him. But we all know that this isn’t and never was the ambition. The ambition is to win that tournament one last time, and this dramatically reduces the options at his disposal. Linfield, Slovan Bratislava or Lech Poznan, say, probably wouldn’t have been difficult to persuade find a space for him in their teams, providing they could afford his wages.
And a 30% pay cut from £500,000 a week is still £350,000 a week, which is beyond the reach of the vast majority of clubs before anything else is even taken into consideration. Perhaps any club offering Ronaldo a contract would be able to recoup that money through successfully monetising his arrival, but it seems unlikely that such a club would be one with a realistic chance of winning the Champions League in the first place.
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