{"id":182097,"date":"2022-08-17T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=182097"},"modified":"2022-08-17T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T12:24:00","slug":"man-utd-urged-to-sell-cristiano-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/man-utd-urged-to-sell-cristiano-ronaldo\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd urged to sell Cristiano Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-182095 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4307.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4307.webp 1200w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4307-300x300.webp 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4307-1024x1024.webp 1024w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4307-150x150.webp 150w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4307-768x768.webp 768w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4307-696x696.webp 696w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4307-1068x1068.webp 1068w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4307-420x420.webp 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paul Merson does not see a problem in Manchester United\u00a0selling Cristiano Ronaldo\u00a0to Chelsea by claiming Newcastle pose a bigger threat to their season. The former Arsenal midfielder is adamant the Red Devils should look to move the 37-year-old Portuguese veteran on &#8211; even if it means selling to the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo has made it crystal clear he wants to depart Old Trafford in search of Champions League football.<\/p>\n<p>Yet all avenues have seemingly been exhausted after Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Chelsea, Atletico Madrid and Napoli all turned down the chance to sign CR7.<\/p>\n<p>With the Blues still scanning the market for a new centre-forward, Chelsea continue to be linked with a swoop for Ronaldo following Todd Boehly&#8217;s meeting with Jorge Mendes in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p>When quizzed on whether United should sell to a direct rival, Sky Sports pundit Merson made it clear there is a huge gulf between United and Chelsea &#8211; suggesting Newcastle are more of an active threat.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;Why is it their rival? They&#8217;re not top-four Man Utd &#8211; they&#8217;re a million miles off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Merson does not see a problem in Manchester United\u00a0selling Cristiano Ronaldo\u00a0to Chelsea by claiming Newcastle pose a bigger threat to their season. The former Arsenal midfielder is adamant the Red Devils should look to move the 37-year-old Portuguese veteran on &#8211; even if it means selling to the Blues. Ronaldo has made it crystal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182097"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182099,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182097\/revisions\/182099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}