it doesn’t seem he could rebuild a club in his image like Arteta has done and like United need to do
Based on what? He was giving basically a season and a half at Arsenal, it took Arteta 3 to rebuild the squad. He finished 8th twice in the same time Emery was given there with basically the same squad?
Mourinho also struggled to rebuild United but he had arguably two of the best rebuilds in history at Chelsea and Real.
Ronaldo was wrong because he should have handled it better, especially being an experienced player but I 100% agree that Ten Hag was playing a game of “showing him who’s boss” with him and it backfired spectacularly.
Tbh I think Ronaldo was done after the summer when they doubted his personal problems. Hearing Ferguson talk about how family was more important and when Ronaldo needed time off for his dad he didn’t even hesitate to give it to him to the club kinda doubting his situation must have been a big shock to him.