The Rest of Other Champions League Result: Ronaldo Rules!!

After the first round of Champions League matches for this season, the scorelines have one thing in common – high scoring games. For English teams, Manchester United beats Bayer Leverkusen 4-2 and Manchester City downs Viktoria Plzen 3-0, Arsenal beats Marseille 2-1 and the ‘Not-So-Special One a.k.a. egg’ (Chelsea) lost to FC Basel 2-1 – at Stamford Bridge!
Meanwhile defending champion Bayern Munich starts their defense with a resounding 3-0 over CSKA Moscow. Barcelona trashed Ajax 4-0 with a Lionel Messi hat-trick, PSG recorded a thumping 4-1 win at Olympiakos, and the headline of this round – Galatasaray 1 Real Madrid 6 with Cristiano Ronaldo scoring his 21^st hat-tricks of his career.

 

The headline of the day belongs to Real Madrid, a 6-1 over win over Galatasaray. A place so intimidating that many teams fear playing in, and yet the results was an overwhelmingly convincing win for Real. But one man makes the headlines for Real and it wasn’t their world record signing, but rather their former world record signing – Cristiano Ronaldo. Watching him scored a hat-trick the manner he did just highlight how Manchester United should have not miss signing him this summer.

 

Never mind the price tag or the astronomical wage demand, Cristiano Ronaldo at 28 years old is right at the peak of his game. He is a fully motivated individually, he trains hard and continues to find ways to make himself better and this shows in Real Madrid’s results thus far in his stints at Real – where his goals outnumber the number of games he played! Most Manchester United’s supporters would agree that should United break their bank to get their marquee signing, Cristiano Ronaldo should be the one. Missing out on signing him now would probably signal the end of a megastar marquee signing since the likelihood of Lionel Messi, or even Gareth Bale joining United in the future are almost close to none.

 

But one cannot help but realized that there was actually a small yet possible window during this summer where CR7 can become a ‘returning Red Devil’ but all is gone now. With the admission that Cristiano Ronaldo and/ or Gareth Bale was that one ‘marquee’ player Manchester United had been targeting, David Moyes may as well get on his job of steering United to trophies with his existing squad he inherited from Alex Ferguson and forget about any marquee signings. Yes, forget Cesc Fabregas too – he is not big enough, he cannot even command an automatic starting berth at his club. The squad Moyes inherited was the one that has multiple winners in them and it is good enough now that Marouane Fellaini had joined. Instead of wishing for marquee signing, United’s fans perhaps can hope that Moyes himself can produce one from his own team - perhaps the likes of Adnan Januzaj or Shinji Kaagwa.