Cristiano Ronaldo wants out of Manchester United, but where could he go this transfer window? – The Warm-Up

MONDAY'S BIG STORIES You do one Ron Ron, you do one Ron Ad/> In the past 48 hours there has been a lot of revisiting quotes and clips from the past 12 months since Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Manchester United. He re-signed to much fanfare, but also scepticism, and so the hindsight chat and level of told-you-so has been off the charts since it emerged on Saturday evening that CR7 wants out.

FootballRonaldo set for crunch Ten Hag talks after requesting to leave Man Utd – Paper Round10 HOURS AGO Cutting through it all is quite difficult, but at the very core of what will sadly become another Summer Transfer Saga™ is a player wanting to leave a club when the new season is closer than the one that just concluded. United finished the last campaign in sixth.

Thirteen points off fourth. And it was on May 7, after the 4-0 loss to Brighton, when they knew it was no longer possible mathematically to reach the Champions League.

So what has changed for Ronaldo since then? Since he said, on June 3, that “Manchester will be where they belong. Sometimes it takes time, but I still believe”? Reading into those quotes on United’s website (Captain Hindsight here) it’s intriguing to note how non-committal he was, stating “Manchester will be where they belong” when the website headlined it “Ronaldo: We’ll be back where we belong”, but anyway, perhaps it is United’s inaction in the transfer window that has lit a fire in Ronaldo, particularly with Tottenham doing their bit to cut the gap on Manchester City and Liverpool, with Chelsea and Arsenal making decent moves too (although is Gabriel Jesus STILL wandering the Emirates with an Arsenal shirt on waiting for the announcement?).