It seems to be a matter of time before Cristiano Ronaldo is no longer a Juventus player.
According to several reports, Ronaldo has expressed his desire to be sold and is ready to leave the club, just a week after calling the transfer speculation about his future disrespectful and “just talking” in a post on Instagram. In addition, Juventus manager Max Allegri and vice-president Pavel Nedved clearly denied a pending exit for the record top scorer, even after being on the bench for the first game of the season (he came in as a substitute and appeared to score the goal of the season). victory in injury time, only to have it overturned by the VAR). However, with Ronaldo in the final season of his four-year contract with Juve, he is on the verge of switching clubs again, according to the likes of Gianluca Di Marzio And Fabrizio Romano.
It is one thing to want to leave, however, it is quite another to have a suitor available. Manchester City have emerged as the most likely destination, coming only after the club was pushed back in their attempts to sign Harry Kane from Tottenham. Ronaldo, who starred in the red side of Manchester for United from 2003-2009, could end up in the blue side of town playing for Pep Guardiola in a sensational twist. Ronaldo would make a bargain, comparing how much it would have cost City to remove Kane from Spurs, with reports suggesting Juventus are seeking a € 30 million ($ 35 million) commission for a player bought by Real Madrid for € 100 million in the 2018. Then again, Kane is 28 and under contract for another three seasons, while Ronaldo is 36 and expires in June. There will surely be questions about tactical adaptation—ESPN reports Ronaldo and Guardiola spoke on Thursday and whether City need to sell other players to complete the move. Bernardo Silva, Ronaldo’s international teammate, and Raheem Sterling have been touted as potential candidates for sale, while it has also been reported that Guardiola does not want to part with Gabriel Jesus.
Ronaldo, if he goes to City, will be considered a constant forward. He has scored many goals for Juventus, 101 in total (81 in Serie A, 14 in the Champions League, six in the national cups), but the club has failed to go beyond the Champions League quarterfinals since he arrived, and the only motivation behind bringing him to a team that was already dominant nationally meant winning the European championship. It never happened, and now Manchester City are evidently hoping it’s the last piece of their puzzle, even if it wasn’t the club’s Plan A. One wrinkle, if he were to really go to Man City, is that the club was just dragged into the Champions League group with PSG, meaning that the opportunity for Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to share the stage would have presented itself once more. time after years in La Liga and again in the group stage last season.
PSG have their own transfer saga to contemplate, with Kylian Mbappé reportedly adamant on joining Real Madrid, despite the club’s summer investment in building a squad of international superstars. Like Ronaldo, Mbappé is in the last year of his contract with PSG, and if the club does not sell the 22-year-old he risks losing him for free next summer. There are even more moving parties, though, and just because reports have said Manchester City and Ronaldo have agreed on personal terms (reports say he will sign a two-year contract), City and Juventus have yet to agree on a commission to complete the l ‘operation, as well as PSG must be willing to accept the offer from Real Madrid before Mbappé goes to the Spanish capital.
It all adds up to a stunning closure of a summer transfer window that has, in some way, embraced nearly all of the elite individual talents of the European game at one stage or another. The deadline for Ronaldo and / or Mbappé to secure their moves is Tuesday 31st August.
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