Reliable goalscorers are the hardest thing to find and, as Manchester United have discovered, they are also (rightly) the most difficult ones to please. But where will Cristiano Ronaldo be strutting his stuff next season?
While he attends to a pressing family issue, speculation over the five-time Ballon d'Or winner and his United future also continues to mount. He did not board the plane for Bangkok and, amid reported interest from Chelsea, there is a chance he might not pull on that red number 7 shirt again.
As underlined by their potentially calamitous kit launch, Ronaldo is still the poster boy at Old Trafford (for now) yet his proposed departure might need to be addressed by some quick-thinking in the boardroom as well as in United's commercial department. That is where Rio Ferdinand comes into the equation.
