Cristiano Ronaldo: “Florentino Perez never looked at me, except as a business relationship. What he told me, he never did from the heart.”
Cristiano Ronaldo: “I felt it inside Real Madrid, especially from the president, that they no longer considered me the same way that they did in the start. In the first four or five years there, I had the feeling of being ‘Cristiano Ronaldo’. Less afterwards.”
Cristiano Ronaldo: “Florentino Perez looked at me through eyes that didn’t want to say the same thing, as if I was no longer indispensable to them, if you know what I mean.”
Cristiano Ronaldo: “That’s what made me think about leaving Real Madrid. Sometimes I’d look at the news, where they were saying I was asking to leave. There was a bit of that, but the truth is that I always had the impression that the president would not hold me back.”
Cristiano Ronaldo: “If it had all been about money, I’d have moved to China, where I would have earned five times as much than here at Juventus or at Real Madrid.”
Cristiano Ronaldo: “I did not come to Juventus for the money. I earned the same in Madrid, if not more. The difference is that, at Juve, they really wanted me. They told me that and made it clear. They showed me that.”
Cristiano Ronaldo: “My decision to leave was not based on Zidane’s departure. That being the case, it’s one of those little things that made me feel a bit better in terms of what I thought of the situation at the club.”