In the lobby of the Real Madrid Hotel in Helsinki, after the European Super Cup, Florentino Perez was challenged by fans who demanded that he recruit Cristiano Ronaldo. “Again? At 38?” The president of Madrid replied.
Cristiano Ronaldo left Real Madrid four years ago but some of the club’s fans still regret it. After winning the European Super Cup on Wednesday evening in Frankfurt, he called some Real Madrid fans who are in the same hotel where the Real Madrid delegation met club president Florentino Perez, to demand that they return the Portuguese star.
“The president, signed ‘El Bicho’ (the bug, one of Ronaldo’s nicknames in Spain, editor’s note), asked a fan in particular, phone in hand to film the scene. After a short period of hesitation, Florentino Perez turned around to answer a small group of fans. .
Perez is wrong about Ronaldo’s age
“Who? Cristiano? Again? At 38?” The Madrid president responded with a chuckle, before continuing his way. Reclaiming the Ballon d’Or five times is not on the agenda, as confirmed by the Spanish press, even if he is only 37 years old, and not 38 as the person who signed him seems to believe. 2009.
Cristiano Ronaldo could continue to search for a base should Manchester United leave. On the Old Trafford side, the two seem to want to split up, but the trickiest thing remains: finding a buying club for the Portuguese, 37, who hasn’t shown his best face in the year he joined the Red Devils.
