After his tremendous defeat in the Champions League, some important Juventus legends are saying Juventus has to sell Cristiano Ronaldo.
After three seasons at Juventus with no Champions League title on sight, Cristiano Ronaldo seems to have wasted three years of his career. But this goes both ways as the Portuguese star was also one of the players responsible for the elimination. We all saw how a terrible mistake from him cost his side the goal that doomed them. Former Juventus president, Giovanni Cobolli Gigli spoke to the media about the legendary player.
He is convinced that after three years of no Champions League titles, it’s time for the club to part ways with the star. Cobolli also disapproved of Pavel Nedved’s reaction after the match where he even got a little violent in front of the cameras. We often see how Leo Messi gets criticized for failing to meet the expectations and the reaction with Ronaldo shouldn’t be too different.
Is it time to sell Ronaldo?
“Ronaldo was a wrong signing, absolutely,” the former Juventus President told Radio Punto Nuovo via Football Italia. “I had said it on his very first day at Juventus. He is a great champion, but he is too expensive. Now it’s up to Juventus. They’ve been paying him €1m per goal. Agnelli must be self-critical, but he doesn’t have great collaborators. I don’t blame Pirlo. I hired Ferrara and it was not a positive experience. Agnelli took a risk with him. He didn’t want Sarri, but he accepted him because Paratici and Nedved had pushed to hire him. Juventus need to rebuild now.
“I’ve known Pavel as a great champion, but he is not capable of being the Juventus Vice-President. They should think again about his role within the club. He didn’t attend Allegri’s last press conference and I didn’t like that. I know they were not on good terms. He claimed he was abroad, but it’s true, he was in Italy. He doesn’t have the Juventus style. The club should free Ronaldo at the end of the season and the same goes for Paratici. Maybe Agnelli had promoted him to remove him from his position afterwards. This could be the scenario.”
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