Manchester United and Portugal sensation Cristiano Ronaldo opened the lid regarding future retirement plans from international duty.
According to Ronaldo, it is not
yet his time;
“Why? I think it’s not my time
yet. It’s not what people want, it’s what I want.
It’s when I feel that I’m not
capable to run, to dribble, to shoot, if the power is gone … but I still have
that stuff so I want to continue because I’m still motivated. It’s the main
word – [motivated] to do my stuff, to make people happy and my family happy and
the fans and myself. I want to put the level even higher.
You speak about Portugal but in
the Champions League I have the most goals, the most wins, assists …
everything. But I want to carry on. I like to play football. I feel good to
make people happy.”
Portuguese positive at Manchester United
Recent quotes from Manchester
United icon Paul Ince paint a picture of Cristiano Ronaldo that is hardly
positive, with the former Red Devils midfielder claiming that the Portuguese
great is “acting like he is running the club.”
Whether that is true or not
remains to be seen, while others feel that United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjær
should build the current Old Trafford outfit around Ronaldo while he remains at
the club.
But Ronaldo, now the proud
owner of over 300-appearances for the English giants, still backs himself and
the club to be successful during his second stint in that part of the country;
“We are in a moment in my
opinion that Manchester (United) do a few changes; they buy me, they buy
(Raphael) Varane and (Jadon) Sancho.
The adaptation will take time,
even the system of the game that we play, but I think step by step we have to
put it in our mind that everything is possible.
I don’t speak only about my
individual stuff, I put the collective in first place. To win things as a
collective, it’s more easy to win individual stuff, so I believe that and I
still think it’s possible.”
As United go into a massive
clash with Liverpool at Old Trafford tomorrow, Cristiano Ronaldo not only has
the chance to continue to build his legacy at the club – and in Europe as a
whole – but also push United right back up the table and just one point behind
their biggest rivals.
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