Pundit predicts Ronaldo will be the ‘undoing’ of ‘grinning’ Ole

Lewis Oldham
Ronaldo will be Solskjaer's "undoing" at Man United

Former Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan has suggested that the signing of Cristiano Ronaldo will be the “undoing” of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at Man United.

Ronaldo secured his return to the Red Devils this summer. He previously had successful spells at Real Madrid and Juventus.

The 36-year-old has five goals from his seven outings across all competitions for United this season.


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The forward started Man United’s first three league games, but he was named on the bench for their game against Everton on Saturday.

Ronaldo came on for the last half an hour. He was unable to make an impact as United drew 1-1. They have now just won one of their last four games across all competitions.

Jordan has told talkSPORT that he expects Ronaldo to be Solskjaer’s “undoing” as Man United boss:

“If you’ve got a manager who is being superseded by a player, the manager needs to be the biggest personality, the biggest image in people’s minds.

“We all know talent wins games, but ultimately, he needs to be P.T Barnum – not Ronaldo.

“He needs to be the circus master and it is a problem that will be built up and spun up and it will be his undoing.

“The signing of Cristiano Ronaldo will be his undoing, because it will be the narrative, it will be the stick that is used against him every single time that it doesn’t work the way it should do.

“I tell you why I am not surprised; when a player walks off the pitch giving it the big’un because he is not happy about it, rather than towing the line and showing a bit of respect to the manager that has picked him or not picked him.

“You’re going to have this, you’re going to have the opportunity for journalists to come in and say, ‘look at what he is doing, there is a rift developing there.’

“All of a sudden, it will be Ronaldo against the manager, or it’ll be about what is happening with Ronaldo.

“The point I made was about Bruno Fernandes. I was more interested in listening to the situation with Bruno Fernandes, talking about the lack of return in these games and the real disappointment he felt.

“Rather than the grinning, gurning Norwegian that’s talking about this young pup and how he knows better than the so-called expert.”