Cristiano Ronaldo says he left Real Madrid because of Florentino Perez

5-time Ballon d’Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo has told France Football the reasons he left Real Madrid after 9 fantastic seasons. Portugal international has joined Juventus this summer to turn the page of his career from La Liga to Serie A. Ronaldo says the relationship with Florentino Perez had gone worse and worse, as Real Madrid president was considering him only in terms of business. “I felt it inside the club, especially from the president, that they no longer considered me the same way that they did in the start,” he said (via The Guardian). “In the first four or five years there I had the feeling of being ‘Cristiano Ronaldo’. Less afterwards. The president 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. “That’s what made me think about leaving. 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 I always had the impression the president would not hold me back. 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. I did not come to Juve 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. “The truth is that the president wanted me but, at the same time, he made it known to me that my departure would not constitute a problem." he added.

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