“How are you feeling fans? Always dreamt but never expected that it would happen! Welcome back in Manchester tweeted former United goalkeeper and Ronaldo’s erstwhile teammate Edwin van der Saar.
Manchester for him will now always mean United. As it turns out, Ronaldo isn’t adding to the list of those who joined Manchester City after playing for Manchester United. Those a little less bitter were pointing out that Dennis Law had done it and so had Peter Schmeichel, Brian Kidd, Andy Cole, Owen Hargreaves and Carlos Tevez and it didn’t feel like a betrayal then. Here was the world - okay, those who think Old Trafford is the centre of the universe - talking about the great betrayal even though it had been 12 years since he had left. Cristiano Ronaldo’s return to Manchester United on Friday night felt like the goal he scored that June night - so swift and sudden that it needed a tap-in and not a spectacular finish. Remember the goal he scored against Germany in Euro 2020? The one that had him sprinting down the middle, taking away a defender and then being at hand to execute a simple tap-in? If there is a text book definition of a goal on a counter-attack this would be it.
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