Cristiano Ronaldo is fortunate that Manchester United ceased some time ago to be a serious football club run by serious football people. He was once a great player and he has had a quite brilliant career but the truth is that no team who put winning trophies above selling shirts would have indulged him so utterly and so obediently last season as the goons who run the show at Old Trafford.
United gave him a stage his waning powers should not have earned but now it is reported that Ronaldo wants to leave the club because they cannot fulfil his ambition of playing in the Champions League.