Cristiano Ronaldo flew from Turin to Lisbon before leaving for Manchester United.
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Ronaldo has been playing for Juventus since 2018 and still had a contract for this season. However, he announced in the Italian big club that he would not continue in it. At first it seemed that he would become a Manchester City player, eventually the five-time Golden Ball winner went to the city rival he played for before moving to Real Madrid.
United stated in a statement on the website that they had agreed with Juventus on the terms of the transfer. To close it, the details with the player, visa and medical examination remain to be resolved.
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— Manchester United (@ManUtd) August 27, 2021
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“Everyone at the club is already looking forward to welcoming Cristian back,” the club wrote, recalling Ronald’s magnificent balance he had achieved in his previous era in the Red Devils jersey – 292 games and 118 goals.
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— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) August 27, 2021
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Ronald’s departure from Turin has been speculated for a long time, but events have been gaining momentum in recent hours. In Juventus, the star Portuguese cleared his locker and told coach Massimiliano Allegri that he would no longer play for the team.
“Yesterday Cristiano told me that he no longer plans to play for Juventus. He did not train yesterday and will not be nominated for tomorrow’s match,” coach Allegri told a news conference ahead of Saturday’s league duel against Empoli. “I’m not particularly disappointed with this. It’s his decision. He’s been here three years and he’s taken something here. Life goes on,” said the coach, who returned to Juventus two years before the season.
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— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) August 27, 2021
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He started a wave of speculation, where the stellar Portuguese eventually anchored. Initially, he seemed to be heading to Manchester City, who was looking for reinforcements to attack after the departure of club legend Sergio Agüer to Barcelona and the unsuccessful attempt to get English national team captain Harry Kane, who remained in Tottenham. Shortly afterwards, however, new information from the British media confirmed that Ronald’s agent Jorge Mendes was negotiating with United.
“I didn’t expect Cristiano to leave Juventus. There’s been a lot of speculation about it lately. I know Bruno (Fernandes, a Manchester United player) talked to him. He knows how we feel about him, and if he leaves Juventus, he knows we’re here, “United coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told Ronald’s address cautiously at a press conference on Friday before Sunday’s match with Wolverhampton.
According to recent information, Ronaldo has already flown from Turin to Lisbon with a private jet, and is due to undergo a medical examination in Manchester on Sunday. United will reportedly pay 28 million euros for the arrival of the European champion.
Cristiano Ronaldo is the only player still playing at the club from Manchester United’s 2008 Champions League Final!#MUFC [@Football__Tweet] pic.twitter.com/gmuQhe4UGC
— The United Devils (@TheUnitedDevils) August 27, 2021
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“Today I am leaving a great club, the biggest in Italy and definitely one of the biggest in Europe,” Ronaldo wrote on the instagram. In Italy, he managed to play 131 competitive matches for Juventus and scored 101 goals. “Once we all look back, we realize that we have done great things. Not all we wanted, but we still wrote a wonderful story,” added Ronaldo, who won two Italian league titles with Juventus in three years. also a home cup and twice the local Super Cup. This year, however, he did not repeat the league championship and during his engagement he did not even experience a triumph in the Champions League, which he had previously won with Manchester and four times with Real.
Ronaldo first came to Manchester United in the summer of 2003 from Sporting Lisbon. During his six-year engagement with him, he won the Champions League (2008), three times the Premiere League (2007, 2008, 2009), once the English Cup (2004), twice the League Cup (2006, 2007) and once the Club World Cup (2008). His return to Old Trafford raised the ambitions of the famous club to return to the league throne, which United last occupied in 2013.
| Business card of Portuguese football striker Cristiano Ronald (36) returning from Juventus Turin to Manchester United: |
| Date and place of birth: February 5, 1985, Funchal |
| Nationality: Portugal |
| Height and weight: 187 cm, 85 kg |
| Post: attacker |
| Club: Manchester United (od 2021) |
| Previous location: Sporting Lisabon (2002-03), Manchester United (2003-09), Real Madrid (2009-18), Juventus Turín (2018-2021) |
| Number of national team starts / goals: 179/109 |
| Biggest achievements: European Champion 2016, silver from European Championship 2004, bronze from European Championship 2012; 5x winner of the Champions League (2008, 2014, 2016-18), 4x winner of the club world championship (2008, 2014, 2016-17), 2x winner of the Super Cup (2014, 2017); 3x winner of English league (2007-09), 2x winner of Spanish league (2012, 2017), 2x winner of Italian league (2019-20); winner of the English Cup 2004, 2x winner of the Spanish Cup (2011, 2014), winner of the Italian Cup 2021 |
| Valuation: 5x winner of the Golden Ball poll for the best player in the world (2008, 2013-14, 2016-17), 5x winner of the FIFA poll for the best player in the world (2008, 2013-14, 2016-17); 3x winner of the UEFA poll for the best footballer playing in Europe (2014, 2016-17); 4x holder of the Golden Football for the best scorer of European leagues (2008, 2011, 2014-15); 3x member of the All Stars team of the European Championship (2004, 2012, 2016), holder of the highest state award of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator |
| Family: single, sons Cristiano and Mateo, daughters Eva and Alan (except for the latter, they were taken away by a surrogate mother in the USA, whose identity Ronaldo never revealed, Alan has with his current girlfriend Georgina Rodríguez) |
| Other: technically and speed-wise well-equipped football player, has scored over 770 competition goals; together with the Argentine Lionel Messi, in recent years he has been considered the best player on the planet and one of the best footballers of all time; a Madeira native started playing football at the age of eight at the Andorinha Club; from the youth categories he was considered a huge talent, after the premiere season in the A-team of Sporting Lisbon he moved to Manchester United at the age of 18; in the same year he made his debut in the senior national team, at the 2004 domestic Euro he became one of the youngest shooters in the history of the European Championships; in Manchester he soon developed into a star of the first magnitude, in June 2009 he moved to Real Madrid for about 2.5 billion crowns and then became the most expensive footballer in the world; as the only player to score at five European Championships and as the fourth player to shoot at four World Championships; he is also the top scorer in the Champions League and European Cups in history; after the third triumph in the Champions League in a row, he decided on a new challenge and in the summer of 2018 moved to Juventus for 2.6 billion crowns; right in the premiere season, he rejoiced in the title and was declared the most useful player in the Italian league; this year he became the best scorer in the history of European championships and at the same time he equaled the absolute international record of the Iranian Ali Daeí with the 109th goal in the national team; today Manchester United announced that it had agreed with Juventus on Ronald’s transfer; one of the world’s highest paid athletes did not escape the inconvenience, including the trial of non-payment of taxes or allegations of rape; has its own fashion brand CR7, as the first footballer and the third athlete in history to earn over a billion dollars. |
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