I've edited your post. Don't speak to me like that.
You said something about people discrediting him. That has often been an accusation about people who think Ronaldo is a cock that they are somehow trying to discrediting him. They aren't.
It was a response to part of your post...
'You said something about....' I mean your not even reading the full discussion before jumping in and catching snippets of what's being said despite it being right in front of your face in written form. There is no accusation or even an assumption that this has anything to do with Ronaldo being a cock. If you can't follow the gist of a conversation, just stay out of it.
By the sound of it he couldn't get the salary and contract he wanted at Real, which has prompted him to go elsewhere.
I'm not boiling it down to a single reason, I said him wanting a challenge is probably not his only motivation. Half-a-mill a week is enough to tempt anyone to a new club. £2 million a month is no drop in the ocean. If money wasn't important, he wouldn't push for a mega contract like that. Let's not kids ourselves here. No-one ever stops and says "that's it, I have all the money I need now." Definitely not in today's world anyway.
For a footballer of his experience and skill I'm not sure the whole moving country thing is as much of a big deal as it would have been when he was 24. It will play a part I'm sure, but not too much, because so much is taken care of off the field for him, and he has been around the block more than enough times to know how to adapt.
Taking Juve one or two steps further in the CL isn't such a huge challenge when they have the league and cup double usually under their belts, and a team good enough to usually get into the last 4 or 8 at minimum in recent years.
Ego and his situation with Perez probably played a bigger part in the move than anything else. Which is not to say he's alone in being controlled by his own ego - far from it - but going to a club guaranteed to win trophies every year without any nearby competition (at least Madrid had Barcelona to worry about) isn't that much of a challenge. Neymar done exactly the same and I rarely hear any voices suggesting he's gone there for the 'challenge' of winning the CL with PSG.
Last edited by SMatthews; 11-07-2018 at 11:17 AM.
Yeah I don't think this is a huge challenge for a player like him, he's done it all so challenging himself doesn't really matter or come into it anymore.
It's just a smart move. Leave Real Madrid at the top before the inevitable implosion, carry on earning big bucks for another elite club and probably win another title or 2. Easy street.
Though for what it's worth, if he does win the CL with Juve that could possibly settle the GOAT debate.
This is the problem with getting our transfer business done early......
We start falling out about other clubs transfers
If only we had observed the waiting period.....
I think it's a combination of factors, but I don't think it was really about money as I said he has that coming out of his ears, the agents are the ones pushing the money more than the players.
I disagree, moving country for anyone is hard, you leave your family/friends behind and everything thats familiar to you, that's tough in itself never mind the change of environment/culture etc, you can't understate that, plenty of players have move countries and struggled to settle.
Credit to him for doing that, the easier option would have been to stay in Real because he knows everything there and has proved himself, the pressure at Juve will be huge because he'll be expected to deliver, possibly the CL.
He's a great player, one that has never been scared to move to another country/club and you have to respect him for that, not many players choose to leave Real Madrid arguably the biggest club in the world.
Good for Italy, good money for Real though they'll have a job replacing him and good for Ronaldo.