Cristiano Ronaldo at Al Nassr: When will he decide to retire? 🤔 | The Football Reporters | ESPN FC
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- In the final part of “The Football Reporters” podcast’s look back at Cristiano Ronaldo’s career, attention turns to his time in Saudi Arabia with Al Nassr. Alexis Nunes is joined by Gab Marcotti, Rob Dawson and Mark Ogden to wonder if the move has worked out, and ask when Ronaldo will finally decide to hang up his boots.
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Saudi league is on its way to be a top 5 league in just a few years just because of Ronaldo 🐐 who made others believe that league is very good ,saudi is the future and will be football hub before 2034 world cup in saudi ,people can hate it but its a fact 💯
How much of your brain cells are left ?
@leonenarwani7258 definitely much more than you have 😂
Abd other sports. They investing in all sport so that saudi can be a hub for sports. Saudi means business. 👏💯
Remember China and Qatar. When you can't make the homegrown football players then you can't just build an infrastructure and label yourself as the best league in the world.
PENALdo = Dicknaldo = FAILnaldo = Benchaldo = PAINaldo = CR7Ynaldo = CAMELnaldo = FLOPnaldo = ZEROnaldo = FIFAnaldo = RIGGEDnaldo = FINISHnaldo
Its just a bunch of Ronaldo 🐐 haters doing a podcast 😂😂.. Ronaldo 🐐 spit >>>>>>>you all and espn ☕🤡🤡🤡🤡
3/4 of the comments are you please get help
You created an account in December 2024 just to sound delusional
@@leonenarwani7258 remaining are yours so you better get a mental checkup 😂
If not injury he had on his right leg will anyone say Ronaldo not good like before again, I don't think so.
Silly excuse
❤cr7❤
It's fucking unacceptable to "highly rate" football journalists, mainly from England. Where they use a tone and style that has a shameful disrespect.
There is not a single footballer who has been more disrespected and criticized than Ronaldo. Everything is based on his personality. It should be emphasized in any discussion of Ronaldo that his personality would downgrade his achievements.
To me is disgusting behavior and there is no clearer answer than that most journalists are Pro-Messi and ANTI-Ronaldo.
Behind all attempts to humiliate Ronaldo, there is only one answer; It is the envy that causes him in your eyes to be pushed down from 1st place, the goat.
For me it is only one. Ronaldo
Stww the hate for this man lol
CR7 the greatest!🥱👏7️⃣💯 there was never a competition between the two. The media created it. Unfortunately kids wont know about that and they are two completely different players. Just saying. 🥱🤷♂️🚶♂️🚶♂️
I disagree with them and agree with them on some of the things. Agreed, CR7 defends better than Messi does for Argentina. Argentina overall is more talented team than Portugal last World Cup. Anyone that says otherwise is wrong. In fact, Brazil, France, and Argentina were on paper also better teams than Portugal with or without CR7.
As for not starting CR7 that was not the right choice. Because the guy who replaced him was shut down. And in fact Portugal seems to have been attacking better when CR7 was substituted in Morocco game.
As for CR7 is clearly a step below what he was 5yrs ago. Off-course sure! But he is still better than anyone coming off the Portugal bench to replace him even if he is 80% of what he used to be to be. He still has to be accounted for on defenses or he will make u pay in the box. And show me one Portugal player who can jump higher than him or has better header ability than him even now! And inside the box he still has an amazing ability to position himself in scoring opportunities without the ball and he is still accurate & powerful with his shots on the goal with left or right. He is also physically still dominant in the box. Also, if I had to pick any one player to take penalty with game on line it would be CR7. He also has this no quit attitude. I disagree that Portugal is better without him. Because there is no Mbappe or Haaland or Vini Jr or Mo Salah sitting 🪑 on bench that’s ready to go inside.
If your logic is that CR7 is only 80% of what he use to be. Then I will gladly take an 80% CR7 over anyone on that Portugal bench including G. Ramos. Who has not proven himself to be even 60% of CR7 at his best.
And European leagues need to start paying top talent money 💰. Or CR7 has shown them that they can gladly go to foreign leagues and secure their future with big payouts. He has single handedly put Saudi-League on the map.
This is nonsense Portugal team is ranked 2nd in the world for transfer value, it’s better on paper than Argentina
@danedwadd62 Stop making up nonsense! And spreading made up lies! 🛑
The FIFA World Cup final rankings that came out before the World Cup and published in October of 2022. Have Argentina 🇦🇷 ranked overall as #3. And Portugal 🇵🇹 ranked down at #9. These were the ratings of both team heading into the WC22!
Not only that but final betting odd makers even had Argentina ranked much higher than Portugal going into World Cup. Argentina 1-7 odds favorite, later revised even higher to 11-2 vs Portugal 12-1 & 14-1 same odds as Netherlands. Argentina was among the Top 2 & Top 4 in odd makers book to win it all.
CBS sports thought Portugal will not even get out of group stages. Mainly due to the conservative coaching style of Santos. All of the ESPN analyst had Argentina 🇦🇷 coming in 2nd behind France or Brazil to make it to the Finals.
No one on paper would or had picked Portugal over Argentina talent wise period! Brazil, Argentina, France, etc..all we’re far ahead in the rankings or talent. And every ranking or analyst had those 3 teams winning it all. Not a single analyst had Portugal anywhere near that ranking nor making it out far in the tournament. Portugal on paper was ok team with or without CR7. Argentina, Brazil, and France great teams!
And Argentina 🇦🇷 was ranked high not because of Messi but due to all the talent surrounding him.
Facts are facts!
@ Portugal problem was still playing Ronaldo because he was past his best, Portugal still had top3 most expensive squad and have underachieved massively, rankings mean nothing, Belgium was 1 for years
@danedwadd62 Your useless subjectively bias opinion means nothing. It’s clouded by your dislike for certain player. The facts are facts and you are dead wrong!
@ when your using rankings your arguments fail, Portugal squad was 2nd ranked in terms of value that’s fact, on paper it’s better than Argentina player for player
The GOAT Ronaldo 🐐>>>>>>>corrupt pessidog ☕🤡🤡🤡
CR7 the GOAT
Portugal played without Ronaldo in the first half why they couldn’t score ? Should hv started Ronaldo.
😂😂😂 always against Ronaldo reporter
Goat of
The Saudi league has several peoblems. None of the teams are interesting or cool or have football heritage. All the team names start with al and so all the al teams sound the same. No matter how much money they throw at big name players, it doesn't seem to be enough to fill the seats. Football culture cannot be bought.
Haha i dont know hpw thos topic fits this time now .......Just looking for views
Saudi has done the best business by getting Ronaldo as brand ambassador where Qatar only got Beckham for publicity Saudi's have made CR7 play also.
CR7 should have retired after 2022 WC if he cared about his country.