"Who is Ronaldo?", Al Nassr president reacts to Ronaldo transfer claims
The president of the Saudi Arabian side Al-Nassr refused to answer questions about the signing of Cristiano Ronaldo.
is without a club after his contract was terminated by
Manchester Unitedfollowing a bombshell interview with Piers Morgan.
Big European clubs like Bayern Munich have ruled out making an offer to Ronaldo but Saudi Arabian side Al Nassr reportedly is interested in the signing of Ronaldo and has offered him a staggering £200 million per year contract.
Ronaldo’s future is unclear and following Portugal's elimination from the World Cup, he has been training at
Real Madrid's training camp to keep himself fit.
Al Nassr president Musalli Al Muammar was asked on Friday about Ronaldo and he jokingly pretend not to even know who the Portugal international is.
“Who is Ronaldo? I don't know him,"
he said.
Later, he talked with SSC Sports and insisted that no negotiations had taken place.
“Cristiano was busy recently with the World Cup and I don't think he's negotiating with anyone," Al Muammar added. “We will not speak about other players, I wish the best to Cristiano with any decision he makes.”
Al-Nassr manager Rudi Garcia recently insisted that he would love to work with the 37-year-old Ronaldo.
"I can't say anything about Cristiano because otherwise it would immediately appear in the headlines: 'Garcia: about Ronaldo'. What I see is that it has been a soap opera and it has been a very important promotion for Al Nassr,"
he told Spanish outlet AS.
"I think that any coach would be delighted to train a great star like Cristiano and, already in November 2021, I was very close to going to United. They chose Ralf Rangnick, but I met twice with John Murtough and Darren Fletcher.
"Nothing special, but I have always thought that the great players are the easiest to manage because they are very intelligent, I verified this with Francesco Totti at Roma. At the moment, the goal with Al Nassr is simple: win titles.
"We're not playing in the Asian Champions League this year because of the World Cup, but we want to win the league and the cups. winning titles in a country other than France is a very important motivation for me too."
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