The Portuguese can’t find a team to live up to his claim to leave Manchester United and play in the Champions League
Cristiano Ronaldo’s future is still up in the air with just two weeks left before the transfer window closes. After Manchester United were left out of the next edition of the Champions League, the Funchal star conveyed to the Red Devils his intention to leave Old Trafford, where he returned last summer after completing a three-season journey in Juventus, and his agent, Jorge Mendes, to gauge potential suitors. But time is running out and the mighty representative still can’t find a place for the five-time Ballon d’Or winner, whose doors have already been closed by several of the continent’s giants. Distant from his new coach and increasingly isolated in a dressing room turned powder keg due to the poor start to the season starring the Mancunian team, the Portuguese finds himself between a rock and a hard place at age 37.
Manchester United’s sixth-place finish in the Premier League last season broke Cristiano Ronaldo’s patience. For the first time since Alex Ferguson recruited him to then-hegemonic Manchester United in the Premiership at the age of 18, the Portuguese would be deprived of continuing to cherish his legend in the league that has contributed most to elevating him to the pinnacle of planetary American football. The Champions League, the tournament he won once with the British team and was Real Madrid’s flagship four times, and in which he is the all-time top scorer with 141 goals in the 187 games he played, would be off limits. this season for those who It has been one of his emblems, unless the Madeira forward gave up his ‘red devil’ status to embark on another project with a guaranteed place in the old European Cup.
For this reason, Cristiano moved the machines and called on Jorge Mendes to find a way out. At that time, Manchester United did not consider parting with its star. Despite the decline in his performance, the 24 goals he scored last season was still a significant record and Joel Glazer, executive co-chair of the English entity, believed he was still too valuable an asset to open doors for to open it. Erik ten Hag thought similarly, entrusting United’s Dutch coach with the arduous mission of reviving a team adrift after a very long journey across the desert.
But the attitude of the crack, who joined late in the preseason, albeit with the club’s approval after losing one of two babies he was expecting with his partner, then played in a resounding rudeness when leaving Old Trafford during the calm in the friendly that faced the red devils with Rayo Vallecano at the end of July has only made the atmosphere in a dressing room on fire rarer due to internal disputes and the poor start to the season, leaving Manchester United bottom of the Premier League once the first two days are completed. According to the British press, the club is already being sold.
But Cristiano Ronaldo has been facing the harsh realities of the market for weeks now. Jorge Mendes was already exploring the path of a return to Spain last summer, when he encountered Real Madrid’s refusal, aimed at the growth of his young values. The agent returned to the fray weeks ago, flirting with Barca and Atlético. But Joan Laporta bet everything on Robert Lewandowski’s card and the red and white option was derailed, among other things, by the rejection his figure aroused at the mattress parish.
The representative has also not had any luck in the Bundesliga, as Bayern chose Sadio Mane and the up-and-coming Mathys Tel to close the gap at the front, neither in Serie A, where neither Milan nor Inter could meet their economic demands. With Mbappe, Messi and Neymar headliners, PSG have not even considered entering the race for the star and within the Premier, Chelsea are the only club to keep their name on the table, but there are discrepancies in this regard between the new owner, Todd Boehly, in favor of its creation, and the technician, Thomas Tuchel, who is not convinced. Remote seems the most romantic possibility, a return to Sporting de Portugal to finish his career where he started, as it would mean moving away from the front line no matter how much the Lisbon team will play in the Champions League and the cache should be significantly reduced.
Source: La Verdad
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