Cristiano Ronaldo has fared well from the latest FIFA update, all things considered. Liverpool, and Thiago in particular, have a right to feel confused.
Cristiano Ronaldo has been one of the leading players in the world for nearly two decades.
The list of accolades the former Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus forward has won in his career is seemingly endless. He stood tall above everyone in the game that wasn’t named Lionel Messi for 15 years, and scored goals by the truckload.
Yet for the first time in 12 years, Ronaldo’s FIFA video game rating has dropped below 90 (via Sky News).
The game, which ranks players according to a list of attributes and then hands them an overall mark on their abilities, has given the Portuguese legend an 88. This hasn’t been seen since FIFA 11: in every edition of the game same since, he’s always been rated over 90.
Yet this drop comes in the wake of his Manchester United exit. Ronaldo now finds himself at Saudi club Al-Nassr.
Ronaldo left Manchester United in acrimonious circumstances, having taken part in an interview with Piers Morgan in which he lambasted the state of the club, noting that nothing ‘had changed’ since when he left the club the first time in 2009. But much of the tension stemmed from the forward’s own dwindling contributions on the pitch.
The ultra-lucrative deal in Saudia Arabia was seemingly the best move Ronaldo could engineer, with no European clubs opting to take him on. In that context, a rating of 88 still looks rather generous.
For Liverpool, only Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk have reached a rating of 90, while Alisson also eclipses Ronaldo, with a rating of 89.
But Thiago Alcântara is an 86 and Trent Alexander-Arnold an 87. The Liverpool duo can surely feel confused and a little hard done-by that the FIFA franchise considers the 37-year-old iteration of Ronaldo a better overall player.
SOURCE: liverpool.com
