Debate on Cristiano Ronaldo's Legacy

The greatest player of all time. Certainly, indisputably,

the greatest Portuguese

player of all time. We can probably all agree on that.

Looks him in the eye-

What about Eusébio?

Makes, make-

Say he wasn't better than him

What about Eusébio?

Makes-

He's never heard of Eusébio.

He's way be- he's way better than Eusébio. Come on. Come on.

You s-

Eusébio was-

No, sorry. You, you're saying Eusébio's better than

Cristiano Ronaldo?

I, I think you can have a-

No.

You can, you can have a debate about that.

How many international trophies did he win Portugal? How many?

Well, they won-

Let me help you.

They, they won-

Let me help you

... they won one, they won one international trophy-

Let me help you

... they won one international trophy-

Let me help you

... apart from the Nations League.

They've actually won three, actually.

Which ones?

Two Nations League and the, and the Euros.

Yeah, well, I don't count Nations League.

Nations League.

How many-

No one's beating Cristiano with any sticks.

They're just trying to put balance into your bullshit.

So he scored nearly 1,000 goals. It's no competition between him

and Eusébio.

He's a brilliant player.

Portugal were great-

You know, Portugal won one international trophy,

Euro 2016.

Ronaldo wasn't on the pitch.

Right. But here, so here's my-

He was injured.

Yeah, that doesn't suit, doesn't really-

But wait, in the final he got injured, yeah.

He was injured.

Ah, okay.

They won it without him.

So he wasn't there when he won it?

Ah, okay.

That doesn't help, that doesn't help your argument, does it?

Wow. The, you'll-

Okay. Very good

... do you know what? The, the extraordinary attempts

that people go to to belittle

the greatest to ever play the game-

Pierce, you.

It's quite extraordinary.

Belittle you.

Well, you don't, you don't-

And your sycophantic drivel

... give him any credit for winning the Euros-

We all know he's a good player

... 'cause he got injured in the final.

Come on

... we all know he's a good player.

Get your head out of his arse and be objective

... you think, you think he's the greatest player ever?

100%.

Really?

100%.

Better than Maradona?

Yeah.

He's, he's never won the World Cup.

No. So?

Stats don't mean anything to Pierce.

On Ronaldo, though, uh, Carlo. This is, this is the point.

It's a, for him, it's a question of respect,

being promised one thing,

then the opposite happening, being warmed up and not used,

which he felt was very

disrespectful, and eventually he went, "Fuck you," and got on a plane and left.

He then offered to help-

I thought he did the right-

... and play against Norway-

I thought he said he wouldn't play against Saudi Arabia

... when he was told he was gonna rest that game,

and ultimately this coach has

repeatedly now gone out in press conferences and said, "I'm in charge.

I'm the big dog. This guy's just another player-

Well, you're, well, you're witnessing offense

... and I refer you back to the top."

But there, there, look, there's a, there's a difference.

When you play in Saudi Arabia, when you play for Al-Nasr,

and you're Cristiano

Ronaldo, you're always going to play 'cause you're

bigger than the league. Okay?

And he probably has it in his contract that he has to play every game.

When you play for Portugal, it is totally different.

It's a whole other line.

And unfortunately, Cristiano Ronaldo-

So what? I make him any-

Cristiano Ronaldo-

I make him any pledges. I've heard the coach on,

on his press conferences.

But you haven't heard what he said to-

It's a load of baloney

... but you haven't heard what he said to

Cristiano.

So what you're doing is you're being subjective because of your

admiration for

Ronaldo. You know you do it. I know you do it.

But one of the reasons I admire him-

Be objective

... is I think he's always honest.

You're a good journalist-

He's honest

... be objective.

Cristiano was told, in this Nations League,

the four games we've just had, in the

first game you'll play 90 minutes. Right? He played 67 and got yanked.

First one to be subbed. In the Norway game-

But, it depends, it depends on the circumstances of the

game

... hang on. I'm just telling you what the coach-

It depends on the circumstances of the game

... I'm telling you what the coach-

What was, what was happening in the game?

I'm saying what the coach told him, which he then reneged.

Before the game.

His version.

Then-

His version

... then he said, he said sorry to him privately,

then spray guns him at the press

conference.

His version.

Going it... Okay, my version.

No, no, no, no.

If you wanna play games.

No, no, no, not your version.

My version is-

The version-

My, my version-

... the version you chose to subscribe to. I don't have a version.

Okay.

I'm objective.

Okay. I've heard-

I don't believe either side

... the good news is we've heard the other

side in public from the coach.

I'm telling you what the truth-

You haven't heard what he agreed to stop him being subbed

... I'm telling. Do you know, I think it's incumbent on a coach to be

honest with a

player like Ronaldo.

It's incumbent-

When one of his best, greatest players

... it's incumbent on the coach to do-

That we have to do, mate

... it's incumbent on the coach to do whatever

it takes to win a game.

Do you feel sad?

And if during a game he feels that it would be better

if he didn't bring Cristiano

Ronaldo on-

That's a choice he makes

... then that's a choice he makes.

I don't think that was it. I don't think that's what he's doing.

I think what he's doing is he, he wants to be the guy that,

that brings him down.

That pulled down Ronaldo.

That pops his balloon. Well, good luck to you, Jorge,

'cause actually what you

should be doing is thanking Ronaldo for being the greatest Portuguese player in

history.

The answer, the answer to the question is do you feel sorry and sad because we

should all be carrying this little, uh, you know, urn of delight about Re-

Ronaldo's achievements. I, I think he's an arrogant sod.

I think he got caught up at Man United and didn't like some of the things

that were

said to him 'cause he's so important.

Really? How many goals did he score at

United before Ten Hag?

Oh, I don't care about how many goals.

No, no. Same as Harry Kane-

Fantastic

... scored that season.

But