The last two months have been turbulent in the transfer market. The big teams, eager for new names to save their performances, are looking for flagships for the summer after a post-pandemic campaign that caused economic problems and the creation of a Super League.
Therefore, in the case of Real Madrid, one of the names that came to light is Cristiano Ronaldo. However, President Florentino Pérez said in an interview with El Chiringuito on Monday that the return of the Portuguese to Madrid was ruled out.
That being said, the love affair between the Portuguese and the club with which he achieved everything was broken by those words on the lawn of the Kiev Olympics with which Cristiano began to confirm that he had already left. Because CR7 had long since left Madrid with his eyes fixed on Torino. Since then, the two sides have not done very well.
Both have won national titles, but knowing the self-demands of both the player and Real Madrid itself, everything seems to be small. Why? Because the Champions League was (comes Superliga) the sports and media scene in which the two felt most comfortable. In the case of the whites, since they won that title in Kiev, they were eliminated by De Jong and De Light’s Ajax and, in the following year, they fell out of the European competition in the hands of Guardiola’s Manchester City, without even reaching final at 8 in Lisbon.
❌ „CRISTIANO WILL NOT RETURN TO REAL MADRID” ❌
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As for Ronaldo, the performance was even more bloody, because in the last three editions, Juve failed to reach the quarterfinals. Ajax and Olympique de Lyon eliminated Torino in the round of 16, while Porto did so this year in the quarterfinals with Cristiano Ronaldo who went unnoticed in a team caught in Pirlo’s hands.
Right now, who needs who the most? A month ago, unofficial Portuguese spokesmen unveiled the option of returning CR7 to the Bernabéu to test the possibility. Madrid, which at the time was plunged into a very delicate economic crisis, did not completely close the option by declaring, in private, that it would already be seen on the summer market. Until then, the choice was clear: if Mbappé or Haaland could not be obtained, Cristiano would become an option. Although everything changed on Monday after the president’s statements.
Moreover, Cristiano does not feel comfortable in the Turin project. Light years away from the five years of play for a club like Madrid, is added the absence of sporting challenges. Likewise, and exactly the same, the Portuguese environment was the one that fed the dissatisfaction that, on the other hand, did not go down well in Juve. Even more knowing that the entity chaired by Agnelli is not going through the best economic moment because of the mortgage that Ronaldo’s contract implies.
However, the Portuguese need Real Madrid more than the other way around. The whites, who for the first time in 30 years have not made any signatures, are still alive in the League and the Champions League after a very irregular season. But there I am and I am still there. Cristiano is content to see his former team on TV with a bittersweet taste in his mouth that leaves the memory of past mistakes that affect them over time. During the breakup, neither Cristiano nor Florentino thought about the club and the player and, over time, realized that it was a perfect marriage.