While the last edition of the World Cup was taking place in Qatar, the news of the unilateral termination of Cristiano Ronaldo’s contract with Manchester United surprised some, but for others it was nothing more than confirmation that the Portuguese’s problems with the coach and the dressing room had reached their peakso the English team had no choice but to leave him in free agency until his eventual arrival at Al-Nassr Saudi.
His last game wearing the ‘red devils’ shirt took place against Aston Villa in a match that ended with a 3-1 defeat. In that clash, the five-time Ballon d’Or winner was present on the pitch for the entirety of the game and was unable to score. By then, in the midst of a series of criticisms of the coaching staff, the Mancunian team would finish in the fifth box of the Premier classification.
Already at the beginning of the ‘post-Christian era’, it began to become more and more evident that The Portuguese was one of the problems that the squad led by Erik Ten Hag hadafter United managed to establish itself in the positions that give access to the Champions League if they finish the season in them and that in turn mean greater economic benefits for the teams that appear in these positions.
Contrary to what was believed in principle, that the absence of an attacker with the profile of the Portuguese would have a negative impact on the goalscoring flow of the Mancunians, other figures have emerged to make a difference in United matches. Among them, Marcus Rashford, who has established himself as the reference in attack adding eight goals after the departure of ‘CR7’, who has not been missed in the ‘theater of dreams’.
United, at a steady pace in the Premier
Today, Erik Ten Hag’s team is located in the third box of the honor division of English football with 46 points in his 23 games played, two of his neighbors City, who have one game less and five of the leader, Arsenal, who has two dates to play. The English are currently preparing for a vital clash in the Europa League against FC Barcelona in search of their pass to the round of 16.
