{"id":9261,"date":"2022-02-12T09:03:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T14:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/02\/12\/cristiano-ronaldo-playing-with-dummies-as-goal-drought-continues\/"},"modified":"2022-02-12T09:03:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T14:03:54","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-playing-with-dummies-as-goal-drought-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/02\/12\/cristiano-ronaldo-playing-with-dummies-as-goal-drought-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo \u2018playing with dummies\u2019 as goal drought continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Blanking against Burnley meant that Cristiano Ronaldo has not scored in his last 5 domestic appearances, a drought that he has not experienced at club level since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Seemingly left frustrated by the new system, and not delivering the goals his signature seemed to promise and, indeed, deliver in the first months of his move, questions are being asked about his future already, especially if Manchester United fail to make the Champions League stage for next season.<\/p>\n<p>As rumours swirl, Ronaldo\u2019s form continues to show few signs of improvement under Ralf Rangnick, nor does Manchester United\u2019s as a whole.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cristiano Ronaldo has become disillusioned with life at Man Utd and is plotting showdown talks with his agent over his future, according to newspaper reports ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KuOG8UQOUR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/KuOG8UQOUR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1492074659667484685?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Who is to blame?<\/h2>\n<p>But, the malaise is not the fault of Ronaldo, according to former Wales boss Dean Saunders.<\/p>\n<p>Saunders, who represented Liverpool and Aston Villa in his playing days, before going on to manage a series of sides in the Football League, points the finger firmly at the back four and midfield, who he claims are some of the worst that the Portuguese star has ever played with.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If you asked Ronaldo, \u2018Who\u2019s the worst midfield players you\u2019ve ever played with in your career?\u2019 Fred and [Scott] McTominay won\u2019t be far off\u2019, he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/cristiano-ronaldo-dean-saunders-worst-midfielders-fred-mctominay\/\">Squawka<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018People are starting to point the finger at Ronaldo, but he\u2019s playing with a few dummies, some of them are not on the same wavelength as him.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>After singling out the midfielders, he went on to slam the defence too, saying:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018They\u2019ve got a bang-average back four and no engine room in the middle of the pitch, the players they\u2019ve got in there are not up to the standard.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Of course, should Ronaldo begin to find the net again, the script will be ripped up, and the United woes will be forgotten.<\/p>\n<h3>Read more:<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/defender-returns-as-man-united-squad-spotted-convening-at-hotel-ahead-of-southampton\/\" rel=\"v:url\">Defender returns as Man United squad spotted convening at hotel ahead of Southampton<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/transfers\/ralf-rangnick-confirms-the-position-man-united-intend-to-strengthen-in-the-summer\/\" rel=\"v:url\">Ralf Rangnick confirms the position Man United intend to strengthen in the summer<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blanking against Burnley meant that Cristiano Ronaldo has not scored in his last 5 domestic appearances, a drought that he has not experienced at club level since 2010. Seemingly left frustrated by the new system, and not delivering the goals his signature seemed to promise and, indeed, deliver in the first months of his move, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-9261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}