Same level as before Cristiano departure, really?
I think Manchester United have been declining and they were not at similar quality level like years ago with Cristiano Ronaldo and even couple of seasons before his return to Manchester United. Cristiano wisely left the club as consequence of internal conflict but perhaps he saw no good future with Manchester United.
Years later, they played terrible and worse than seasons ago, which is unacceptable with an ambitious player like Cristiano Ronaldo. If he had not leave their club, he would have not contributed too much by becoming older and older year by year.
Yet again people trying to say the club declined after Ronaldo left but it wasn’t like that but it was more like it was declining because the club was been built round an aged player. Let’s leave sentiment out of this but Ronaldo coming to Manchester United was a decision that up to day I will say was one of the worst decisions made by both the player and the club, it didn’t worked out for both and it was because it wasn’t the right thing. Had he moved to either Manchester City or PSG it would have been better for both parties.
Manchester United a season before Ronaldo arrived finished second on the premier league table and went to the Europa league final with a much younger squad that we all thought was enroute to bring back glory days to the club, after signing of Ronaldo he was scoring goals but his presence disturbed the balance of the team and it was what even got Ole sacked, so for me I don’t think it didn’t work out and United should had let Ronaldo left before it went the way it did