‘Cristiano Ronaldo wants to join Manchester United’ screamed the headline on Diario AS on Monday morning. It won’t do much for team spirit at a club that finds itself 19 points from the leaders.
Neither will it necessarily help Ronaldo get his move – it’s one thing for him to want to go; it’s another thing entirely that a club pays him and Real Madrid enough money to make it happen.
Madrid appears to be leaking more than Zinedine Zidane’s defence at the moment. At the weekend Cadena Ser radio in Madrid claimed Florentino Perez was plotting to try to send Ronaldo to Paris Saint Germain in a player plus cash deal for Neymar.