Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo is said to have not played against Udinese from the start voluntarily because he is planning to leave Juventus. The club denies.
How many times have we seen scenes like this? Fourth minute of stoppage time, the score is even, and then CR7 strikes. The jubilation over the alleged winning goal for Juventus remained stuck in Cristiano Ronaldo's throat on Sunday evening during a guest appearance at Udinese. Because the Portuguese was very thinly offside in front of his header, the VAR intervened and the referee recognized the goal. The superstar even received the yellow card because he had taken off his jersey for the premature goal celebration in order to be able to present his luxury body to the world public.
A back and forth that is almost symbolic of Ronaldo's current situation at the Bianconeri. A few hours before the game kicked off, the news caused a stir, according to which the five-time world footballer allegedly asked himself not to be used in the game at the start of Serie A. But not because of an injury-related restraint, but because of an imminent change.
In recent weeks, several international media had written that Ronaldo will join PSG if Mbappe should not actually stay with the Messi club. For example, the Spanish newspaper “As” reported that PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi's goal has always been to have Messi, Ronaldo and Neymar as a trio on his team. Five times world footballer Ronaldo and six times world footballer Messi in one team – what a dream!
Transfer expert Fabrizio Romano wrote on Sunday on Twitter that Juventus had not yet received any official offers for Ronaldo, but at the same time emphasized that the player hoped to find a solution on the transfer market. In recent weeks, various media have repeatedly written of an alleged interest from PSG, Manchester City or Ronaldo's ex-club Real Madrid in the 36-year-old.
At least one return from Ronaldo to Real should be off the table, as Carlo Ancelotti, the new coach of Los Blancos, himself denied the message on Twitter last week: “Cristiano is a Real Madrid legend and has all my affection and all of mine Respect. I never considered signing him. We're looking forward. “
Juventus' Vice President Pavel Nedved was approached by DAZN about the Ronaldo case before the game in Udine, but downplayed the matter and denied his superstar's wish to change: “We made this decision together with Ronaldo. It's nothing special. Ronaldo is one hundred percent sure stay.”
On Saturday, Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri had already commented on Ronaldo's situation and, like Nedved, sounded confident: “To be clear: he told me he would stay.”
The Portuguese himself had already spoken up before the renewed excitement about the ongoing speculation and complained in a post on Instagram about “disrespect”. “I cannot allow my name to be played,” wrote Ronaldo, but without completely ruling out Juventus' continuation.
The market value of Ronaldo is 45 million euros, with his contract in Turin expiring in the summer of 2022. However, the Italian media recently even speculated that Juventus could let him go with a specific offer for a sum of around 28 million euros.
