Roberto Martinez

comment by Darren The String Fletcher (U10026)
posted 24 minutes ago
Playing with Ronaldo is like playing with ten men. His only value is putting the ball in the net and he failed to do that. He’s a big problem for the Portugal team.
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He’s not even sharp enough anymore to put the ball in the net at this level.

comment by Robberto Garnacho (U22716)
posted 44 minutes ago
Don't think Ronaldo was the problem with PortugaL

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You would be alone with that thought sadly
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I’m sure Scholay is lurking somewhere.

comment by Robberto Garnacho (U22716)
posted 2 minutes ago
Wanna see my schedule for football tomorrow 😂 Gonna sleep in a min.

2am - England Switzerland
5am - Türkiye vs Netherlands
8am - Colombia vs Panama
11am - Uruguay (the most fun international side to watch) vs Brazil

All quarter finals.
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Nice! Enjoy, mate.

comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Darren The String Fletcher (U10026)
posted 24 minutes ago
Playing with Ronaldo is like playing with ten men. His only value is putting the ball in the net and he failed to do that. He’s a big problem for the Portugal team.
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He’s not even sharp enough anymore to put the ball in the net at this level.
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Yeah he looks done at this level. If his ego wasn’t so big, and he could accept a back up role, he could maybe have some value as a sub. But he obviously just cannot do that.

comment by Darren The String Fletcher (U10026)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Darren The String Fletcher (U10026)
posted 24 minutes ago
Playing with Ronaldo is like playing with ten men. His only value is putting the ball in the net and he failed to do that. He’s a big problem for the Portugal team.
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He’s not even sharp enough anymore to put the ball in the net at this level.
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Yeah he looks done at this level. If his ego wasn’t so big, and he could accept a back up role, he could maybe have some value as a sub. But he obviously just cannot do that.
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Yep and Martinez has obviously seen what happened at United and bottled it.

What’s weird is that the last manager did drop him and he’s an extremely safe manager.

Agreed. Was it a condition of Martinez taking the job that he has to play Ronaldo? We’ll probably never know.

I’ve no idea. But there’s clearly plenty of internal and external pressure to play Ronaldo.

No doubt. What should have happened and it’s easy for us to say is that Martinez should have sat down with Ronaldo and said you’re now at a stage where you would be best as an squad player or impact sub and do you want to continue your international career under those terms.

As others have said, it isn’t obvious the politics around Ronaldo. But the player he was this tournament was a liability.

Martinez himself did a great job at Wigan and Everton & then took a Belgian team who were hugely overrated to be the second best team in the whole of the 2018 tournament and only got beaten by the best. He’s clearly not a top manager but he’s a lot better than made out.