Cristiano Ronaldo: The Moments That Made Them
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Hello and welcome to The Rest Is Football with Alan Shearer, Micah Richards and me, Gary Lineker. We're doing another episode of Premier League Greats, the moments that made them. And... This guy's tenure in the Premier League probably made his career, because most of it has been spent elsewhere. He came to Manchester United from Portugal when he was, I think, 18 years old. I think it's safe to say he's made a bit of a name for himself. One of the greatest players of all time, Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo. I mean, I don't think any of us really saw that when he first arrived. But would you have played against Cristiano?
You must have done. I think four times. Four times. Won one of them. Yeah. Yeah, I think that was the, do you remember the Munich disaster remembrance? And we changed, we went to the old school kits.
Oh, yes.
That's the game we played. We won that game. So, but I mean, what can you say about it? Well, what has not been said a million times. It's just, I don't think he gets enough respect for how skillful he was. And, Obviously, he was dynamic, he was sharp and all that. But when he faced you up, he could go both ways very quickly. So he'd always put you on the back foot. And I know he became a goal scorer in the end. But before that, especially when he was at Man United, up against him, his skill, it was just outrageous. Definitely one of the hardest I've played against. But it was a derby, so I don't know, I feel like... He didn't get as much time to do what he'd normally want to do because everyone was just smashing him.
But he was next level.
They had that story, didn't they? They signed him because of his performance in a pre-season friendly, wasn't it? And I think they said, we need this lad. He's a bit special.
I think when he first came, there was a lot of maybe flicks and tricks and... rather than being that sort of killer instinct, you know, when he, as you say, when he lined people up, he perhaps went one way, went another way, came back and thinking, oh. But then he sort of made himself into this killer.
I mean, he's so much skill.
Yeah. He's made himself into possibly the greatest goal scorer ever with his numbers. I mean, I know there's the talk about Pele and over 1,000 and all of that, but... He's not far away from that now. But this is what I mean about the tricks and the flicks and the step-overs and what have you. But for when he went in a more centre-forward position, I guess, His numbers are just ridiculous.
Yeah, I mean, he very much started as a winger. I remember doing a lot of Match of the Days and, you know, you get Alan Hansen, maybe Mark Lawrenson back in those days and they used to be quite, you know, almost saying that, well, he's got loads of talent, but he's just got it. He's got to cross it. He's got to get, you know, he's overdoing it. He's overdoing the stand. That was quite a common criticism back then.
What moments defined Cristiano Ronaldo's early career at Manchester United?
And I think he probably learned from it as well because... He did gradually take that out of his game. I mean, he still couldn't do a step over, obviously, but in terms of like, you'd do six or seven. Yeah. And he cut down. Don't forget, he was still young then. He was a kid.
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