After three seasons the champion greets the bianconeri and chooses Manchester United. Guardiola’s doubts block the City
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He returned to his first love, after a cold and hasty farewell from Juventus, but the happy end of his telenovela was a twist even for Cristiano Ronaldo himself. The destination of Manchester was safe, only that CR7 was imagining to leave again with the shirt of the City and instead will wear that of the beloved United. A market joke that reconnects the threads of memory, at Old Trafford he grew up winning everything from 2003 to 2009 with Ferguson on the bench, and above all he closes the circle of his incredible career. The Red Devils won the derby on the night between Thursday and Friday, when Ronaldo broke with Juve and City did not sink the blow after having found the agreement. Guardiola accepted the engagement, strongly desired by Sheikh Mansour to respond to the Messi blow of the PSG Qatari, but without rolling out the red carpet and the failure to sell Sterling blocked everything. Thus the counter move of the prosecutor Mendes (and the pressing of Bruno Fernandes on CR7) made it possible to quickly find the solution he had been looking for for months: the attacker gets a rich two-year period and a high-level team that can make him win the sixth Champions , while Juve collects the 25 million they asked for after the divorce.
Ronaldo’s Juventus history ends in a hurry, after 3 years and 101 goals scored with 5 trophies won. Juve loses the “Martian” who has captured all the attention, but has not managed to transform Europe from hell to heaven, while Serie A is orphaned by another champion after having greeted Lukaku, Donnarumma, Hakimi and De Paul . «I leave a fantastic club – wrote the penta Ballon d’Or on social media -: I gave my heart and soul to Juve and I will always love Turin. The Juventus fans have always respected me and I have tried to reciprocate by fighting in every single game, season and competition. We have achieved great things, even if not everything we wanted, but together we have written a beautiful story ». A farewell ended with a “Grazzie” that borders on gaffe, all the more so after having lived for three years in Italy, but Cristiano is running and has already turned the page. Yesterday morning he stayed at the Continassa for less than an hour to collect his belongings and say goodbye to the team, while just before 3pm he was already flying to Lisbon with the private jet and today he will do medical examinations for “his” United. The bench in Udine and that winning goal canceled in the 95th minute for a millimeter offside, who knows if the epilogue would have been the same with that 3-2 at the debut in the league, thus remain the last football scenes of an adventure that began with a a riot of crowd and ended with a few disappointed fans outside the Juventus sports center. The tiramolla of this catchphrase weighed and a certain sense of liberation could be felt between the parties, while Allegri took it philosophically without hiding some smiles. «He didn’t want to stay anymore – explained the coach – and Cristiano made his choice. Great champions have passed here, but Juve remains ». –