'HE'LL NEVER STOP!' 🤩 Troy Deeney HAILS Cristiano Ronaldo After Scoring 900 Career Goals | talkSPORT

Portugal bitting Croatia 21 Cristiano Ronaldo getting his 900th goal I mean when is he going to stop where's the level he's never going to stop is he until someone stops him I think he is just uh once generational talent but I think also for any young player and young kids watching just the to see the transformation do you remember that wiy kid that signed for Man United that was rolling all over the place and now we've got this bloke proper specimen of an athlete that's 900 goals what's he now 38 39 39 yeah 39 and he's doesn't look like he's slowing down not not 40 until the first part of next year when you first saw him burst on the scene what how did you describe him uh as a show Pony famously um I rang a national Radio phone in I remember it United lost at wol I think it was Kenny Miller scored the goal at molu and I was fuming not just with Ronaldo In fairness jber jber and Bell on uh also got the uh got the wrath of me but uh yeah I made a mistake with Ronaldo but but Troy's right when he first came on the scene he he was doing all those tricks wasn't he he was very skinny he was going down under every tackle and I think his credit to his teammates people like Roy Kean he would have had around him at the time that quickly made him adapt to the riggers of English football and you look at him now I mean Troy's right he's an absolute superhuman and I would be surprised if come the World Cup in two years time when he' be what 41 if he's not there I think he'll be very much part of the he he's going for a th goals isn't he now I mean he's now be he'll be laser focused on how mental is that talking how how does he get there he's going to have to go to a league where he can score a lot of goals isn't he you know regularly so so what's the league that he can Target where he could he can pick up 50 goals a season um he's he's still doing it now I just think he's he's so good while he slows down the brain doesn't slow down so when you see the positions that he gets himself into and he's he's smart enough now to he doesn't have to go and do it all on his own I think there's an element of his ego where he still wants to do that but he he's still he's still Ronaldo he's still so bloody good and it's it's one of those as as a player now at 36 and I'm like knocking it on the Ed and you're looking at him going oh my God I must have wasted some years I had a good time mind but I must have wasted some Years cuz that's just pure dedication you can't do that he doesn't have a good time and by that I mean he doesn't he doesn't go out and have fun with his mates does he I mean this is a guy who literally is pretty much stand alone dedicated to the sport and does everything that you are you would you would expect a robot robotic player to be in order to get the best out of there and it's not Money Motivated either obviously he's got the trappings that come with with Fame and Fortune but he is motivated by records personal records probably more than more than team records but if that if that's what drives him then his teammates get the benefit of it you say that but if you go back to the European championship in 2016 he didn't really play much in that final because he came off injured really early but he was so delighted he was so happy about winning that it meant a lot to him and interestingly in the Euros I think we sort of discussed the fact that maybe too many countries were pandering to to Big egos but if you looked at that that that team that Portugal team when he missed you know when he was crying his eyes out because he missed the penalty or whatever nobody else gets frustrated in that team with him because I think they look at him and they think you've got us to positions that maybe we wouldn't have got to without you so there's a lot of respect for him I think absolutely and I think he's also he's not one of those older players that's trying to hold back a Le or someone like that saying want to play on the left he has to play somewhere else he's been adaptable and moved but I I think when you talk about his motivation as well I think he's been very fortunate in the sense of having Messi there as well two greats that they've both been able to push each other and not many people get that especially in the Premier League they normally move on don't they and I think um there's not enough words to say just how how good he is Gonzalo Ramos might think come on mate retire let me have a go um but apart from that everyone else is pretty much behind him I think his teammates seem to love him as well saying yeah you know B no one's ever no one complains about him and actually I was watching back some videos sorry before we go on to Northern Ireland watching some videos of his second coming at Manchester United and the effort that he put in and the frustration that some of his teammates weren't reaching those levels in terms of application I turn out now what he said which ended up getting him kicked out was right yeah yeah and I hammered him at the time for that but yeah I think there were some home TRS there so a couple of mistakes you made around Ronaldo um Northern Ireland be Luxenberg 2-0 in group C3 of the Nations League last night two well well work go Patty mcneel's go was really good he finished it beautifully with the outside of his foot Dan Ballard's goal well work free kick Michael O'Neal's first victory in the competition San Marino beat lichenstein by Goten it's been 20 years since they uh won a game but actually it's their first ever competitive win um their first since 2004 in terms of that was a friendly against the same opponent um I mean that's what the Nations league is all about isn't it putting teams up against against others who have a similar ability and trying to get them to develop and Scotland's Brave comeback thrown away at the death they Trail 2- n at the break they were largely the better side for the majority of the game but didn't have that Finishing Touch they didn't have that final telling ball they got back on level terms thanks to new Napoli signings Billy Gilmer and Scott momy but threw it away deep at the end Troy with individual mistakes yeah sloppy one from from Grant as well to be fair I think he's coming I don't want to speak too badly of Grant cuz he's still he's still going and he's still you know wants it but the games I've seen the back end of last year and the start of this year don't know whether five times just catching up with him and he's well he hasn't played much football but he he started the season um against Oxford came off 60 minutes and he's only played The League Cup since then yeah and he he look it looks like his brain's going do this and his body's going what now and that that split seconds too late because at that point there you don't need to dive in the lad's just going to run it off the pitch he's not going anywhere and he's what is it 94 95 minutes minutes just just see it out job done and I think like cuz he was so quick before and I don't think people appreciated just how quick Grant Hanley was that he's I think he thinks he can get there and he's just he's just tried so hard now to keep that shirt and keep it going that I think he's just been too eager I think the frustration for Scotland is it changes the whole Narrative of the night doesn't it because they go two nil down they they launch that incredible comeback as you say and actually in the last 10 minutes I thought if anyone was going to Nick it maybe it would be Scotland but now it's another defeat they played much better footb ball much more Progressive than they did at the euros and I guess that will be a source of frustration for their fans because they were poor in Germany I thought they were the worst team those Euros they look scared in Germany yeah they did they scared they looked like the occasion was too big whereas yesterday they took the game to Poland for much of the match they went to a back four which was important because they gave an extra man in Midfield they pressed high up the pitch it looked better yeah much better and I think the fans would get on board with that it's a tough group though isn't it Portugal and Croatia to come so yeah it's hard to see where the winds are coming actually we had a text from Andy the man united fan he says he's gim off today because San marinho won more matches this year than Scotland by the way Andy that's factually incorrect because Scotland have won a game this year they've won one game each so they've won the same number as San Marino there you go that's a small cram of comfort let's hear from Steve Clark who was speaking last night he blamed the individual eras for the the defeat against Poland late last night obviously disappointing to lose a game like that a game that we shouldn't lose we shouldn't lose uh but if you make errors at this this level you get punished and we we got punished severely for the the errors that we made in the game everyone's disappointed we we lost a game that we shouldn't have lost uh it's not about picking out individuals uh we never do that I've never done that and I'm going I'm not going to start now we win as a team we lose as a team we'll go away we we'll we'll analyze the game and we'll speak in Camp there were some good performances last night they should be mentioned the fact that he bought on gold he bought on Morgan and do in the second half of that game Lauren Shanklin getting a run out after Dykes had worked himself into the ground Billy Gilmore played well and so did Scott mctominay as you would expect showing that he can still be a real asset to the Scotland team are you a little surprised that Manchester United were were so Keen to part with him yes but when you listen to what Eric T hog said it seems like he was kind of balancing the Box a little bit like get rid of him for a certain amount of money which allows him to to go and do what they're doing to keep under the financial fair play and then there's rumors now and cook probably speak to better than me I think is it Casmir looking like he could be going G that won that won't happen I'm told they've just registered him actually for the Europa League so that suggests that he's he's sticking around same same with Anthony I think saying that they were so Keen to let him go is is may be a misrepresentation I think they they had to let him go for the reasons that's Troy is saying there because they needed how concerning is that the fact that they had to let him go because of the the money and they were ke they were Keen to get the money back for mention well there's two answers to that question one is again you know we could have a whole show debating the Rights and Wrongs of PSR which I think has been blown out the water this week by Leicester winning their appeal but when as a football club you're encouraged to cash in on Academy players that's never sat right with either of and as well it's absolutely ridiculous and it always has been and we've been moaning about it for a year and a half now but when you when you look at it solely from a footballing point of view he added value to man united what I mean by that is you saw get as well not only that they get run all over in Midfield I don't mean to be disrespectful to any of them but you saw the Liverpool game it highlighted it massively and we would say the Liverpool Midfield is probably the weakest area of their team and they just ran all over man united he made him look levels apart I think he would still add value excuse me he scores goals he's good around the dress room and he's a great lad so to lose that and then not replace it significantly I would say in a light tol light player I think it's a it's a big Miss for them but he will grow from go to Italy he'll learn tactically and he'll that'll only be Scotland's benefit the second point I was going to make is it just highlights again you know how badly the football club has been run over the last what two decades that you're paying casemiro clearly past his best so much money that even clubs in Saudi Arabia have backed away from that deal and they've ended up keeping casemiro and Erikson who are going to offer far less value to United on the pitch this season the Momin would that's the point that's the point um right we'll hear what happens to Steve clar and Scotland on Sunday their game against Portugal is live on talk sports Sunday night 7:45 from Lisbon uh looking forward to that tomorrow it's England against the Republic of Ireland we'll be looking ahead to Lee cary's first game in charge as interim manager a audition for the permanent job is it more difficult actually to foul that audition Jim White and Simon Jordan Monday to Friday mornings from 10: on a.m. on da via the talk app and on your smart speaker talk sport