{"id":23654,"date":"2022-11-17T10:52:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T10:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/?p=23654"},"modified":"2022-11-17T10:52:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T10:52:03","slug":"ronaldo-almost-joined-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/ronaldo-almost-joined-city\/manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo Almost Joined City?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the best players of our generation, Ronaldo, almost joined a completely different team to United and could have sparked a massive debate with all United fans if this went through! Ronaldo almost joined Manchester City instead of Manchester United as talks were in full swing for the Portuguese winger\/striker!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The forward revealed that he had almost joined Manchester City instead of Manchester United after he felt “betrayed” by his club.<\/p>\n

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He went onto the headlines recently talking about the issues he had at Manchester United after what happened to him and his family and how they reacted to the situation.<\/p>\n

Ronaldo stated that;<\/p>\n

“As you know, my history in Manchester United, your heart, you’re feeling the way that you did before, makes the difference. And of course, Sir Alex Ferguson.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I spoke with him. He said to me, ‘it’s impossible for you to come to Manchester City’. And I say ‘OK, boss’.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Instead of joining the rivals of his first Premier League club, he went and followed his heart to rejoin Manchester United. Now, his picture is being taken off the stadium and he has been told off by ten Hag due to the recent interview.<\/p>\n

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One of the best players of our generation, Ronaldo, almost joined a completely different team to United and could have sparked a massive debate with all United fans if this went through! Ronaldo almost joined Manchester City instead of Manchester United as talks were in full swing for the Portuguese winger\/striker! The forward revealed that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":23656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[700,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-city","category-manchester-united"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23657,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23654\/revisions\/23657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}