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Originally Posted by MIJB#19
As much as I dislike Cristiano Ronaldo's attitude, and knowing he too is a whore for money, I did not expect him to go the oil money competition route into retirement. I really thought one of the prestigious oil money clubs (PSG or Manchester City) would have made room on their sky is the limit salary budget.
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Quoting myself from page 10 (after he was dropping from Portugal's staring lineup):
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Originally Posted by flere-imsaho
Ronaldo's appeal to potential suitors in the January transfer window just cratered. I think he's looking at China or Saudi Arabia at this point. He's a net negative to any team not explicity set up to feed him the ball in high xG situations, and even then it appears he can no longer convert those at the rate he used to.
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Reading in The Athletic, it sounds like he wasn't willing to temper either his wage demands or playing time demands. I think if he could have come down on either there might have been a team still in European competition who could have found him a place.