The main aim of signing Ronaldo for Juventus was clearly to win the Champions league, which they didn’t achieve. I see this as the main reason why people claim Ronaldo wasn’t a good signing for Juventus. As well as him being one of the main reasons for Juventus’ economic issues.

  • catseye17B
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    1 year ago

    It was not. The goal was to win UCL. Juventus were UCL finalists a few times the years before he arrived. He was supposed to get them over the line.

  • themiddlepoleB
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    You’re not wrong, but judging by the comments, I need to make something clear.

    Juventus was the strongest team in Italy at that time, reaching the finals of the UCL twice and was always a tough test for opponents, can’t believe people would call players like Bonucci, Chiellini, Pjanic, Matuidi, Dybala, Mandzukic, and so on, weak players who failed CR7 in his task.

    Getting eliminated by, no offense, Ajax, Lyon and Porto in the UCL raised question marks regarding things including what could the attack, CR7 included, have done better.

    It was one of the wrong decisions by the management, the team was functioning well as a whole until this transfer happened, and we all know CR7 is a perfect finisher, but also a player who would never fit in teams that should function as a whole, instead he will embrace the spotlight to himself rather than serve the team’s said plan.

    The only part where anyone would blame CR7, is him deciding to leave Real Madrid when he was technically one of their pillars at that time and a perfect fit for their system.

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    1 year ago

    If we are talking about sports result absolutely not, Juventus was doing quite well in champions league before him and they recruited him to finally win one and stop losing in final.

    They literally couldn’t get past round of 8 with him and they even couldn’t win the Série A in his last season (I’m not saying that all of this is his fault but this was the main purpose of his move to Juve).

    But if we are talking about marketing etc… it was a huge success, he made a lot of people follow Juve and buy his shirts

  • Famous-Finger5924B
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    1 year ago

    101 goals in 134 games as a striker. And people wonder if it’s a success?

    Lol

    A player doesn’t win the CL. A club does. Ronaldo did his job, and he did it extremely well. The rest didn’t follow.