Cristiano Ronaldo has completed a transfer to Al Nassr.
Ronaldo was explosively linked with a move to the Saudi Pro League side after his alternate spell at Manchester United ended in rancorous fashion in late November.
After falling down the pecking order at United, Ronaldo – who only scored one Premier League thing this season – told Piers Morgan he’d no respect for head trainer Erik ten Hag in a controversial interview.
That comment, as well as Ronaldo’s protestation that United had” betrayed” him, led the Red Devils to terminate his contact shortly after the launch of the World Cup in Qatar.
Al Nassr surfaced as frontrunners and on Saturday AEDT the 37- time-old’s transfer was officially verified. According to transfer authority Fabrizio Romano, Ronaldo has inked a two- and-a-half-year deal and will earn€ 200 million(A$ 315m) per season.
” History in the timber,” Al Nassr twittered.
” This is a signing that won’t only inspire our club to achieve indeed lesser success but inspire our league, our nation and unborn generations, boys and girls to be the stylish interpretation of themselves. Drink@Cristiano to your new home@AlNassrFC.”
Ronaldo’s move is seen as effectively bringing down the curtain on one of the topmost careers in the history of elite European Football.
The five- time Ballond’Or winner has lifted the titleholders League jewel on five occasions – four times with Real Madrid and formerly with United, while his census of 140 pretensions is the loftiest recorded in Europe’s premier club competition.
Ronaldo is also Madrid’s all- time top arranger with 450 pretensions, while he came the loftiest- scoring player in the history of men’s transnational football last time – he now has 118 elderly pretensions for Portugal.
still, he has fallen short of those inconceivable norms in recent months, with a group- stage penalty against Ghana representing his only thing at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, though that did make him the first man to net at five different editions of FIFA’s flagship event.
Having been relegated to the part of cover for Portugal’s last two games, Ronaldo maintained his unwanted record of noway scoring in a knockout institution at the World Cup before watching his great rival Lionel Messi lead Argentina to their third title.
Al Nassr are counseled by former Lyon master Rudi Garcia and count Cameroon forward Vincent Aboubakar andex-Arsenal goalkeeper David Ospina among their team.
The Riyadh- grounded side have won Saudi Arabia’s top flight on nine occasions – a census only bettered by Al Hilal, who have 18 titles to their name.
