Cristiano Ronaldo: Will he ever play for Manchester United once more?

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When Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Manchester United final summer time, he was accompanied by a lot fanfare that his iconic No.7 jersey grew to become the quickest promoting jersey of all time, outstripping these offered by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when Tom Brady joined or the LA Lakers once they signed LeBron James.

However simply over a 12 months later, Ronaldo’s triumphant homecoming has unraveled, spooling rumors of potential transfers and a seemingly fractious relationship with supervisor Erik ten Hag.

The five-time Ballon d’Or winner has discovered himself marooned on the bench this season a lot to his discontent as Ten Hag opts to start out Marcus Rashford or Anthony Martial as a substitute, gamers who higher match his type of dominating possession and urgent excessive up the sphere.

“It has to finish,” former United defender Gary Neville informed Sky Sports activities.

“Cristiano Ronaldo goes to should go some place else and play each week as a result of he can’t settle for being on the bench. That’s superb however finish it this week or create a truce to get to the World Cup after which finish it.”

Tensions rose final week when, as an unused substitute, the 37-year-old left Wednesday’s recreation towards Tottenham early fairly than staying till the top.

Whereas his teammates accomplished a 2-0 victory, Ronaldo was seen strolling down the touchline and into the tunnel.

As a punishment, he was dropped from the squad for Saturday’s match towards Chelsea and educated alone for 3 days, in keeping with The Athletic.

“That’s the second time Cristiano Ronaldo has left Outdated Trafford and acquired in his automobile earlier than his staff have gotten again into the altering room,” Neville mentioned.

“I've to say, as somebody within the dressing room, it’s one thing that’s unacceptable. Once you take a look at whether or not Cristiano ought to be chosen, Manchester United are higher with out him – and Erik ten Hag is aware of that.”

The membership’s relationship with Ronaldo started to deteriorate when the striker reportedly tried to push for a switch earlier than the season began and he missed preseason because of this.

On the pitch too, Ronaldo’s performances have been underwhelming; in his eight appearances thus far this season – six of which have come from the subs bench – he has scored simply as soon as.

For Ronaldo, who reached 700 membership objectives with that purpose this month, such returns are virtually unfathomable and make it tougher for any membership to justify signing him.

On the identical time, although, these accolades give Ronaldo an aura on and off the pitch, and made him a Manchester United icon throughout his first stint on the membership.

“All the time,” Ten Hag mentioned in keeping with the BBC, when requested if his staff had missed Ronaldo towards Chelsea.

“He can rating objectives and he's useful for us. We want him, that's clear. I believe I've mentioned sufficient about this case.”

However Ronaldo’s discontent at United, fairly than his capacity to attain objectives that marked his first spell there, is tarnishing his homecoming and even perhaps his enduring legacy on the membership.