Cristiano Ronaldo, rightly crowned the finest footballer on the planet, still has his best form to come this season. This is not only the view of former Reds forward Lou Macari, but also a terrifying prospect for opposition defenders.

The pressure is always on at Old Trafford, and doubly so for the man who picked up the FIFA World Player of the Year award and France Football magazine's prestigious Ballon D'Or in December. This means that for a player who's scored 42 goals en route to helping United secure a Premier League and Champions League double, the queue of doubters predicting it won’t – simply can’t – be done again will be as long as your line of admirers.

A repeat of last season’s astonishing goals tally may not be on the cards, but Ronaldo’s input to the current campaign should be judged in isolation, not in the context of previous years. And  Macari is a firm believer that the Portuguese winger, who fired a stunning winner against Blackburn Rovers on Saturday, will have a very big say in shaping what the Reds achieve this season.

“Without a doubt his best form is yet to come,” Macari told United Review. “He hasn’t been firing the way he did last season, but that’s understandable. He didn’t have the best start to the season because he missed much of pre-season after the European