{"id":1140392,"date":"2022-07-02T22:49:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T22:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/02\/cristiano-ronaldo-asks-to-leave-manchester-united\/"},"modified":"2022-07-02T22:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T22:49:54","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-asks-to-leave-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/02\/cristiano-ronaldo-asks-to-leave-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo asks to leave Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"365\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0_GettyImages-1238778532-696x365.jpg\"   alt=\"Ronaldo left unimpressed\" title=\"Ronaldo left unimpressed\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronaldo left unimpressed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo has reportedly told Manchester United that he wants to be allowed to leave the club.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old was United\u2019s top goalscorer with 24 after making a fairytale return to the club last summer from Juventus, but he is now said to be pushing for a move,\u00a0according to a report in The Times.<\/p>\n<p>Driven by the desire to play Champions League football, it is understood that Ronaldo has requested Manchester United allow him to leave should they receive a satisfactory offer this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Having played in Europe\u2019s elite competition for 19 consecutive seasons, Ronaldo is staring at a first-ever campaign in the Europa League after United finished an underwhelming sixth.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The report adds that Ronaldo is confident he still has three or four years left in him at the very top level and wants to represent a team capable of winning trophies.<\/p>\n<p>And although the five-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner had previously talked about how \u201chappy and excited\u201d he was at Old Trafford with the club set for a new era under Erik ten Hag, it appears he doesn\u2019t want to be part of the Dutchman\u2019s rebuild, which could take years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know he [Ten Hag] did a fantastic job for Ajax and that he\u2019s an experienced coach,\u201d he said only last month. \u201cBut we need to give him time and things need to change the way he wants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope we have success of course. Because if you have success, all of Manchester are going to have success as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I wish him the best. We are happy and excited \u2013 not only the players but the supporters as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish him the best and let\u2019s hope that next year we\u2019re going to win trophies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo, who has one year left on his contract, has been linked with a move to Bayern Munich and Chelsea so far this summer, with the Blues\u2019 new chief Todd Boehly recently meeting with the player\u2019s agent Jorge Mendes.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"tf1WUInR31M\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ampofo Twumasi urges Akufo-Addo to revive TOR to arrest fuel price hikes \u2013 Adom TV News (2-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tf1WUInR31M?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronaldo left unimpressed Cristiano Ronaldo has reportedly told Manchester United that he wants to be allowed to leave the club. The 37-year-old was United\u2019s top goalscorer with 24 after making a fairytale return to the club last summer from Juventus, but he is now said to be pushing for a move,\u00a0according to a report in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1140394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[790,3931,3156,1762,2298,2822],"class_list":["post-1140392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asks","tag-cristiano","tag-leave","tag-manchester","tag-ronaldo","tag-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}