Orikoru
Tour Winner
Seriously? I do think the Prem is the toughest league (as in the worst teams are better than the worst teams in the other leagues) but Real Madrid and Barca will always be two of the biggest clubs in the world that all the top players want to play for. He won four Champions Leagues there. The increase in goals can be attributed to a couple of things. He played right midfield in a 4-4-2 for most of his United career, especially for the first few years when he was very young and hadn't fully developed into his prime yet. When he went to Madrid he was now in his prime, plus he started playing left wing in a 4-3-3, so more advanced, able to cut inside and shoot at will rather than being asked to put crosses in in the 4-4-2 system.Ronaldo; why did he leave Utd in 2009? Utd were, arguably, the best in Europe at that time. Was the Prem too hard for him? He scored significantly more goals per game at Madrid than he did for Utd… Did Utd’s dressing room contain too many stars compared to Madrid’s?
Maybe the Madrid move was a cultural thing for him but I thought it was a backward step.