'Get him out': Craig Burley on Cristiano Ronaldo walking out of Portugal's camp

Four ESPN FC voices take on Ronaldo's exit, and much of the comment section wants to argue with one of them, Gab Marcotti.

Channel: ESPN UKStory of October 4, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 115,099 views a day, 17 times a normal first day on this channel (6,654).

‘GET HIM OUT!’ 👋 Burley sounds off on Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal situation | ESPN FC

Cristiano Ronaldo walked out. According to the video's description, he decided to leave the Portugal camp, and ESPN UK put the ESPN FC panel on it straight away. The video passed 110,000 views in under a day. A new upload on this channel usually ends its first day with a few thousand.

The title gives Craig Burley the loudest line. The former Chelsea and Celtic midfielder has rarely softened an opinion on air, and his "Get him out" sets the tone. Host Dan Thomas also brings in Frank Leboeuf, Don Hutchison and Gab Marcotti, so the debate gets a French World Cup winner, two former Scotland internationals and a journalist who has covered Ronaldo's whole career.

The argument carried on underneath the video. Comments came in roughly five times faster than on a usual first day, and many of them answer Marcotti directly. The question viewers keep returning to is whether a coach owes Ronaldo a public apology for leaving him out. Others bring up Luis Suárez accepting a place on Uruguay's bench, and the Messi comparison is never far away.

It is the latest chapter in a short saga on the channel. As we reported here, the panel asked a few days ago whether Ronaldo's Portugal days were over, after his country beat Denmark without him. A shorter companion clip, "Burley says Ronaldo is FINISHED as Portugal's key man ❌", also started well ahead of the usual. Meanwhile the reaction to England's seven-goal night in Croatia and the talk of José Mourinho's three weeks before El Clásico drew far smaller crowds.

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The numbers

A panel show clip that ran far ahead of the channel's usual first day, with a comment section to match.

the video's first day

usual first day here

6,654

this video

115,099

subscribers

1,600,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,053,480,513

views per day

766,812

typical day: 1,208,242

the video

views

111,221

likes

742

comments

467

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

The Overlap

1,780,000

adidas Football

1,670,000

ESPN UK

1,600,000

FOX Soccer

1,580,000

That's Football

1,520,000

KickFlix

1,420,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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