Agent Jorge Mendes is reportedly pulling out all of the stops to get Cristiano Ronaldo his transfer away from Man Utd this summer time.
The Portugal worldwide made it clear to the Pink Devils board earlier in the summertime that he desires to go away Outdated Trafford earlier than the switch deadline.
Nonetheless, Ronaldo hasn’t had the extent of curiosity he most likely anticipated with solely an unnamed Saudi Arabian membership displaying concrete curiosity within the 37-year-old.
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There have been reviews yesterday that Sporting Lisbon had been ’99 per cent’ there with a deal for Ronaldo however Man Utd sources have now poured chilly water on that hypothesis.
Ronaldo has all the time performed within the Champions League and, with Man Utd ending sixth within the Premier League final season, he faces his first marketing campaign with out the competitors, except he can safe a transfer away.
And Italian journalist Gianluca di Marzio now claims that Ronaldo’s agent Mendes is ‘making an attempt in each technique to keep away from’ the Portugal worldwide having to accept a season of Europa League soccer.
Mendes is presently ‘making an attempt’ to position Ronaldo at Napoli and ‘contacts have been resumed within the final hours after a primary chat firstly of August’.
And Di Marzio provides that Mendes ‘might resolve the difficulty’ surrounding Ronaldo ‘by bringing Napoli an essential provide’ from Man Utd ‘for a potential sale of [Victor] Osimhen’.
He reckons Man Utd ‘might take the Nigerian to interchange the Portuguese’ by making a ‘triple-digit’ provide of €100m or extra, regardless of nothing being on the desk up to now.
Mendes nonetheless wants to influence the Premier League membership – who’re set to fork out some huge cash for Ajax winger Antony – and Di Marzio continues by saying there was ‘no negotiation set updated, however an additional and easy new contact has arrived relating to a strategic plan by Mendes’.
A deal for Osimhen – who scored 18 objectives in 32 matches in all competitions final time period for Napoli – is ‘not straightforward’ and Mendes can be making an attempt ‘to implement the identical’ technique at AC Milan however as an alternative of Osimhen, he’s suggesting Rafael Leao.
Mendes has additionally spoken to Chelsea, Marseille and Sporting Lisbon, in addition to different golf equipment about Ronaldo with lower than per week left of the summer time switch window.
If Ronaldo can’t discover a transfer away from Outdated Trafford this summer time then not solely will he be with out Champions League soccer, however he might additionally face a season on the bench.
