{"id":390968,"date":"2021-09-05T11:28:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T10:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=390968"},"modified":"2021-09-05T11:52:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T10:52:18","slug":"epl-youll-not-win-premier-league-title-even-with-ronaldo-liverpool-hero-barnes-tells-man-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=390968","title":{"rendered":"EPL: You&#8217;ll not win Premier League title even with Ronaldo &#8211; Liverpool hero, Barnes tells Man United"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Liverpool legend, John Barnes has said that Manchester United cannot win the Premier League title this season despite the return of Cristiano Ronaldo to their set up.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo made his way back to Old Trafford last week after leaving Juventus.<\/p>\n<p>During his first spell at Old Trafford, Ronaldo won the Champions League, Premier League titles, among others, including his first ballon d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United finished second behind rivals Manchester City last season and many believe Ronaldo\u2019s arrival has seemingly boosted their chances of winning the Premier League this term.<\/p>\n<p>But Barnes is not convinced, although he still believes it is a \u2018good move\u2019 for all parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the point of view of the prodigal son returning home it\u2019s fantastic,\u201d Barnes told BonusCodeBets via Metro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, they\u2019re not getting the Cristiano Ronaldo that they had or that Real Madrid had.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut getting back a talisman and one of the greatest players that ever lived \u2013 not so much now because he\u2019s 36 and on the way down \u2013 is a good signing for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow will it affect the other players? They\u2019ve seen one player leave already in Dan James and we\u2019re probably not going to see as much of Marcus Rashford. Is that going to help the balance of the team?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know, so we\u2019ll have to wait and see. I think a lot of it had to do with nostalgia. Obviously, he\u2019s a very good player, don\u2019t get me wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he\u2019s going to cost as much as his salary costs and he\u2019s going to help for a year, from a financial point of view they can afford it presumably.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t necessarily think it will make them any better in terms of winning the league,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool legend, John Barnes has said that Manchester United cannot win the Premier League title this season despite the return of Cristiano Ronaldo to their set up. Ronaldo made his way back to Old Trafford last week after leaving Juventus. During his first spell at Old Trafford, Ronaldo won the Champions League, Premier League titles, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":390969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,4679,1406],"class_list":["post-390968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-christiano-ronaldo","tag-manchester-united"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/390969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}