Cristiano Ronaldo’s club scoring record as superstar forward nets 700th goal

Cristiano Ronaldo’s winner for Manchester United against Everton on Sunday was his 700th goal in club football.

Here, the PA news agency looks at the 37-year-old’s scoring record for United, Real Madrid, Juventus and Sporting Lisbon.

Appearances: 31 Goals: 5

The future Portugal star played just one senior season in his homeland, demonstrating his potential with a handful of goals while only turning 18 late in the campaign.

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Appearances: 340 Goals: 144

Those early flashes of promise earned him a move to Old Trafford, where he flourished first as a flying winger before adding regular goals to his game.

He hit double figures for the first time in 2005-06 before three successive seasons of 20-plus goals, peaking with 31 in the Premier League and 42 in all competitions in 2007-08.

His first spell brought a total of 118 goals in 293 games to persuade Real Madrid to part with a then-world record 94million euros (£80m).

After returning to Manchester last season, Ronaldo hit 18 league goals and six in the Champions League. A Europa League strike against Sheriff Tiraspol got him up and running for this season before he opened his league account with Sunday’s milestone strike at Goodison Park.

Appearances: 438 Goals: 450

It was as Real’s latest – and perhaps greatest – ‘galactico’ from 2009 to 2018 that Ronaldo grew into the feared central striker he has become, as his rivalry with then-Barcelona star Lionel Messi saw both men achieve scarcely believable scoring rates.

Ronaldo had six straight seasons of scoring over 50 goals in all competitions from 2010-11, scoring a goal a game or better in all but the first of those and astonishingly