As rumors grow about Cristiano Ronaldo's departure for Juventus, the Marca newspaper recalled the key moments that led to the break between the Portuguese international and President Florentino Perez.
"Ronaldo did not want a red carpet in Valdebebas, only to be treated like a legend of the club, a statute that already belonged to him," writes the Madrid daily, remembering that the Portuguese ace never felt this recognition on the part of Florentino Perez.
CR7 won titles, beat records and Golden Balls, but the "obsession" of the leader merengue was always one: hire Neymar. "A spine stuck" in the throat of Florentino who created in the Portuguese advanced a feeling of "institutional detachment."
Proof of this was the promise of contract improvement, made after winning the Champions League in 2017, which never arrived. Ronaldo did not understand how the club showed the financial capacity to hire Neymar and, at the same time, postponed the promised salary increase to a club legend.
Incomprehensible to Ronaldo were also Florentino's statements at the Bola de Ouro gala in December, where, moments before being once again recognized as the best player in the world, he heard the president enticing the Brazilian: "If you want to win the Golden Ball , comes to Real Madrid. »
Such "institutional detachment" was felt by Ronaldo at various other times. Real Madrid has always put itself on the sidelines of the player's problems with the Spanish Treasury, a reverse path to what followed Barcelona with Messi, and this has greatly affected the relationship between Ronaldo and Florentino.
Another example was the Real's position after the expulsion of Cristiano Ronaldo in the Spanish Super Cup. The club appealed the sanction, but only Zinedine Zidane came to public to defend the player. Good relationship with the coach served as a liaison with the presidency, but this reference also disappeared after the Frenchman left.
These were the essential factors that deteriorated the relationship between Ronaldo and Florentino until the final breaking point. A week before the 2018 World Cup, and a year after the promised one, the president tried to materialize the contract improvement and try to recover the lost respect. But the Marca newspaper asks: will it be too late?
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