PIERS MORGAN has claimed that Cristiano Ronaldo would have considered a move to Celtic or Rangers to further cement his Champions League legacy.
The Sun columnist has defended the Real Madrid and Man Utd legend’s mega move to Saudi Arabian side Al Nassr.
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An explosive interview with Morgan prior to the World Cup is what led to his Red Devils exit after Ronaldo took aim at manager Erik Ten Hag, the board and the overall facilities at the club.
The Portuguese superstar has been slammed for his Saudi switch with majority of people claiming he’s only caring about one final payday to end his career – after insisting he would never move there in the interview with Morgan.
But Morgan insists he hasn’t done it for the money, but to help football grow in the Gulf state.
He says Ronaldo told him that a Champions League club would be his first choice so he could break further records on the continental stage.
TalkSPORT presenter Laura Woods then challenged the broadcaster and asked him if he’d think the same of him if he made the switch to either Celtic or Rangers if the money was hypothetically the same.
She asked: “Can I give you a quick scenario? If the Scottish Premiership had the money that the Saudis do, would you have the same opinion if Ronaldo went to play there?”
Morgan then suggested that he would have joined one of the Old Firm clubs if Champions League football was on the table.
He replied: “Ronaldo would have gone anywhere that had Champions League football. I know for a fact because he repeatedly told me what he really wanted to do was extend his Champions League career.
“He has most of the records in the Champions League and he wants to extend them, probably so that Messi can’t catch him and that he ends up as the GOAT of Champions League football.
“That was his motivating factor. I do believe that he’s driven more by records and legacy than he is by money. He’s already got half a billion pounds so it’s not like he needs a few quid in Saudi Arabia; he just happens to be getting a stupendous payday to build football there from a very good platform of beating the World Champions (Saudi Arabia defeated Argentina in their opening game of the 2022 World Cup).
“So things did change a lot in the last few months in terms of the narrative of football in the Middle East. It was a tremendous World Cup for the region generally, so it looks a little less crazy than it would have done six months ago when Saudi were a complete irrelevance in football.
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