Stan Collymore has suggested that Cristiano Ronaldo’s recent comments regarding League One are a result of him being a puppet for Saudi Arabia.
Considering this isn’t the first time that one of the best players to ever play the game has come up with something original, Ronaldo wants to play matches with his sonWhich means he’ll have to play until he’s at least 43 for that to realistically happen.
Although he may see himself as football’s Benjamin Button, time waits for no man.
Ronaldo is just a puppet for Saudi Arabia
In any event, Adil Rami was the only player to score on the Portuguese star (daily Mail) following comments made by Ronaldo at the Globe Soccer Awards just before Christmas about the French top flight being weak compared to the Saudi Pro League.
Stan Collymore believes Ronaldo’s anger is symptomatic of a player being ‘bought’ by an entity and then having to repeat whatever the entity wants to hear.
“Ronaldo’s comments about the Saudi league being better than French football, that this player was better than him… I think at this point we’ve pretty much figured out where his loyalties lie, right?” The former Forest and Liverpool ace tells CaughtOffside for his specific column,
“Much like when David Beckham was the Qatar World Cup ambassador, or Lionel Messi went and played in the United States and signed a big deal with Apple, these people are big businesses around the world and who Anyone who buys them gets their opinion. Opinions that can be shaped by the people who have bought them.
Ronaldo’s reach and influence is greater than Beckham, Messi
“I think his impact on the game will only grow. Beckham certainly has, and I don’t think there’s any aspect he can’t touch when it comes to Ronaldo’s reach.
“Beckham was a global icon for the fact that he was a good-looking guy married to a pop star, he had a great personality and he could sell everything and anything.
“In the same way that Pele was certainly bought lock, stock and barrel by FIFA and included in certain events, I think it would not be a surprise to see Cristiano Ronaldo do the same.
“I think we need to get used to global superstars playing a greater political role than ever before in future generations. And when I say political game, you only have to look at George Weah.
,[…] Let’s be completely honest, if Donald Trump and Elon Musk can put themselves forward as leaders in the free world, the global recognition of top-class footballers who are on people’s screens 40 weeks a year, 24/7 It can ensure that you completely envision Cristiano Ronaldo as Prime Minister of Portugal or President of FIFA, for example.
FIFA slaps Messi’s Inter Miami Of course, at the Club World Cup, a controversial decision that was widely ridiculed, as the MLS side only had a sliver of silverware, the League Cup, to show for their season.
This shows that Collymore’s opinion is not very widespread, and perhaps we should expect more of the same in the future.