The idea of Old Trafford hosting the final chapter of Cristiano Ronaldo’s career has been deemed as ‘wishful thinking’ for a couple of years now but the tide is turning.

Ronaldo said goodbye to Manchester United in the summer of 2009, not too long after the Red Devils’ defeat to Barcelona in the Champions League final.

But after eight years and nearly half a century of goals for Real Madrid, the true colors of his current club are beginning to show.

Madrid and their fans are not known for appreciating legends, as their treatment of Iker Casillas proved a few years ago.

In the 4-2 win against Bayern Munich in April, several fans in the Santiago Bernabeu crowd had the nerve to jeer Ronaldo, their own player, for a mistake.

And that has suddenly got the Portuguese superstar reminiscing about the rather harmonious and disrespect-free days at the Theatre of Dreams.

“I’m very happy being in Spain but obviously I also miss England because you can’t just turn off the memories,” Ronaldo said

“I don’t like it and it’s not normal that they whistle you in your own stadium. I just don’t like it.

“It shouldn’t be the case that a player who always wants to give his best and give 100 percent for this team when he makes his first mistake people whistle.

“It’s not correct. And when you are on a difficult run that is when you need extra support from outside not less. Sometimes we don’t have it.

“I spent a lot of years at Manchester United and it never happened to me. Not even once. Maybe England is a case apart – the mentality is different.”

William Prescott 
The idea of Old Trafford hosting the final chapter of Cristiano Ronaldo's career has been deemed as 'wishful thinking' for a couple of years now but the tide is turning. Ronaldo said goodbye to Manchester United in the summer of 2009, not too long after the Red Devils' defeat to Barcelona...