{"id":1160067,"date":"2022-07-27T13:03:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T13:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/27\/ronaldo-returns-at-last\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T13:03:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T13:03:22","slug":"ronaldo-returns-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/27\/ronaldo-returns-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo Returns At Last &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cristiano Ronaldo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo\u00a0has arrived at Manchester United\u2019s Carrington training ground as he prepares for crunch talks with\u00a0Erik ten Hag\u00a0about his Old Trafford future.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old has missed the first three weeks of the club\u2019s pre-season \u2013 including the whole of their tour of Thailand and Australia \u2013\u00a0after being given compassionate leave for a family issue.<\/p>\n<p>It came against a backdrop of Ronaldo asking to leave United this summer as he feels he is unable to compete for the biggest trophies at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>The forward\u2019s agent Jorge Mendes arrived with him yesterday \u00a0\u00a0around 10am, an hour before United\u2019s players were due to arrive for training.<\/p>\n<p>Also at Carrington is\u00a0Sir Alex Ferguson \u2013 who first signed Ronaldo for United as an 18-year-old in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The star played at Old Trafford for six seasons under the legendary manager before departing for Real Madrid, but he still\u00a0considers Ferguson as an important mentor.<\/p>\n<p>The Scot was influential in Ronaldo returning to the Red Devils last summer as he persuaded the forward not to join rivals\u00a0Manchester City, so United will hope he can have a similar impact again.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Cristiano Ronaldo Cristiano Ronaldo\u00a0has arrived at Manchester United\u2019s Carrington training ground as he prepares for crunch talks with\u00a0Erik ten Hag\u00a0about his Old Trafford future. The 37-year-old has missed the first three weeks of the club\u2019s pre-season \u2013 including the whole of their tour of Thailand and Australia \u2013\u00a0after being given compassionate leave for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1141433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[60,2298],"class_list":["post-1160067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-returns","tag-ronaldo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160067","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=1160067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}