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New team in France getting discontented Ronaldo for nothing? Anything but (3-4)

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I believe the answer is:

non-zero

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'nothing? anything but' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'new team in france getting discontented ronaldo' is the wordplay.
'new' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation eg NT for New Testament).
'team in france' becomes 'onze' ('eleven' in French - football team has 11 players).
'getting' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'discontented' means to remove the middle letters.
'ronaldo' with its centre removed is 'ro'.
'n'+'onze'+'ro'='NON-ZERO'

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for non-zero that I've seen before include "Either positive or negative" , "Having a positive or negative value, ie anything not equating to nought (mathematics)" .)

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