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Originally Posted by espn news

Ronaldo wants to leave Old Trafford

Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo believes he should leave the club and play abroad.

The Portugal international has come in for a lot of criticism throughout the World Cup, especially for the role he played in Wayne Rooney's sending-off during the quarter-final against England.

Although the winger denied trying to influence the referee after his club-mate Rooney clashed with Ricardo Carvalho, television cameras later picked up the 21-year-old winking at his bench when the England forward was dismissed.

And after Portugal's 3-1 defeat to hosts Germany in the third-place play-off Ronaldo spoke for the first time about his future.

'I think I should get out of Manchester,' he said. 'The circumstances are not right to keep playing in Manchester. In two or three days I will decide where to go. I always said I wanted to play in Spain.

'Nobody stood up for me at Manchester, although I did not do anybody any harm.'
Ronaldo, a £12.24million signing from Sporting Lisbon in August 2003, has been linked with Real Madrid in the last week and it appears the Bernabeu could be a likely destination.

When new Real manager Fabio Capello was asked about Ronaldo he said: 'He is a Manchester United player. Everyone wants to come to play here and I think he really wants to and this is good news for me.

'We will have to wait and see but at the moment I cannot say anything.'

wtf is with real madrid. do they have an endless budget? soccer sucks because of teams like that.