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      Cristiano Ronaldo shared £3.5k-a-week fishing village home with Georgina Rodriguez and kids during coronavirus pandemic

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      THIS is the stunning ocean-view villa Cristiano Ronaldo reportedly renting for his family before he returns to Italy last summer during the coronavirus pandemic.

      The Juventus striker, 36, picked the £3,500-a-week six-bed property in a remote spot near the fishing village of Canical after tiring of his luxury apartment in the Madeira capital Funchal during the first lockdown.

      Juventus superstar Cristiano Ronaldo was said to have switched to this amazing home near the sea in Carnical from his luxury apartment in Madeira last summerCredit: Airbnb

      Portugal hero Cristiano Ronaldo reportedly hired this incredible property, yet returned to Italy within daysCredit: Airbnb

      The coronavirus lockdown didn’t hit Critiano Ronaldo too hard, judging by the living roomCredit: Airbnb
      A video Ronaldo posted on Instagram showed him doing sprints up a ramp with girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez, next to a red-roofed house with a large garden – very different to the urban seven-storey apartment he bought in 2019 and had been staying at during the coronavirus lockdown.
      ‘IDEAL HOLIDAY HOME’
      Ronaldo’s rented villa, which can sleep six, is in a gated estate and has a huge pool set in a landscaped garden with palm trees, stunning views of the Atlantic, and direct access to the beach below.
      It also has a games room with a snooker table, and an outside BBQ.

      It is described on local property website Madeira-legacy.com as “very private” and the “ideal holiday home for a family or group of friends.”
      Cristiano and Georgina were believed to have relaxed there with children Ronaldinho Jr and twins Eva and Matteo.

      There is no shortage of entertainment on offer in the property Cristiano Ronaldo reportedly rented, including a games roomCredit: Airbnb

      Ocean views enhance the luxury of the villa Cristiano Ronaldo and his family were thought to enjoy last summerCredit: Airbnb

      The kitchen facilities are hardly cramped for Cristiano Ronaldo, Georgina Rodriguez and their childrenCredit: Airbnb

      Cristiano Ronaldo returned to his native Portugal after the lockdownCredit: AFP or licensors
      Correio da Manha’s magazine Vidas quoted a source saying: “He felt he needed space, that he was getting a bit stifled inside four walls.
      “This new place has a big garden and more privacy of course. Cristiano is very used to having a quiet life.”

      Cristiano’s mum Dolores Aveiro, who suffered a stroke last year, and his older brother Hugo are understood to have stayed on in Funchal.
      They live on lower floors of the seven-storey apartment block the footballer bought in 2019 so he could enjoy the top two floors and its rooftop swimming pool when he was in town.

      The lack of privacy Cristiano had by being in Funchal meant that when he went out for a quick walk with his family, they were approached by fans and pictures of them were taken which went round the world.
      Georgina was also photographed shopping days earlier.

      Canical, a half-hour drive east of Funchal, is home to around 6,000 people. It was the centre of the whaling industry until the early eighties and has a whale museum.
      Emanuel Santos, the sculptor behind a bizarre statue of Cristiano which was mocked all over the world after it was unveiled at Madeira’s airport in March 2017, comes from Canical.
      One of the sculptures he had crafted before the Ronaldo bust was unveiled, of two fishermen sat in a small fishing boat, is on a roundabout at the entrance to the village.

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      Man Utd and Chelsea set for summer transfer battle for Roma’s Gianluca Mancini with defender’s price tag cut to £27m

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      MANCHESTER UNITED will go head to head with Chelsea in a summer transfer battle for Roma’s Gianluca Mancini, according to reports.
      The Roma centre-back, 24, is set to be available for a cut-price fee of £27million when the market reopens due to the financial impact of coronavirus.

      Manchester United and Chelsea have both been linked with Roma defender Gianluca ManciniCredit: AP:Associated Press

      And according to the Express, that could tempt the Premier League giants to fight it out for his signature.
      Mancini – no relation to former Manchester City boss Roberto – joined Roma on a permanent deal for £11m last summer following a successful loan spell from Atalanta.
      The four-cap Italy international has missed just three Serie A games this term, keeping seven clean sheets and helping Roma to fifth.
      And the commanding defender continues to prove a threat in the opposition box, too, with four goals and two assists in his 23 league appearances.

      Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is keen to add another centre-half to his Manchester United squad this summer and find a long-term partner for Harry Maguire.
      Fiorentina ace Nikola Milenkovic and Sevilla’s Jules Kounde have been linked while Eric Bailly could be in store for a new contract at Old Trafford.
      Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel wants another leader in defence and Mancini could fit the bill.
      Jose Gimenez, Niklas Sule and Ibrahima Konate are also on the Stamford Bridge shortlist – but David Alaba is unlikely to join.

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      The German already has Antonio Rudiger, Cesar Azpilicueta, Thiago Silva, Andreas Christensen and Kurt Zouma at his disposal to play in his back three – and used all five since his arrival, shipping just two goals in 11 matches.
      Plus Fikayo Tomori, Ethan Ampadu, Malang Sarr and highly-rated Marc Guehi remain out on loan for the campaign and could force their way into contention by impressing in pre-season.
      However, Mancini’s versatility to be able to play in a back three or back four as well as at right-back and holding midfield if required could see him favoured over other transfer targets.

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      Cristiano Ronaldo ‘can leave Juventus for just £25MILLION’ as Italians look to cut losses after Champions League failure

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      CRISTIANO RONALDO can leave Juventus for just £25million, according to reports.
      The Italians are reeling financially and their premature Champions League exit has only exacerbated those troubles.

      Juventus could sell Cristiano Ronaldo for just £25million this summer to cut their lossesCredit: Getty Images – Getty

      And according to Corriere dello Sport via Football Italia, the Old Lady would be willing to sell the five-time Ballon d’Or winner this summer for just a quarter of the price they paid for him in 2018.
      That would enable the club to avoid a capital loss, the report adds.
      Ronaldo’s contract expires in 2022 but getting his reported £540,000-a-week salary off the wage bill would save £28m next season.
      There were suggestions he was hoping to get a 12-month extension on his current deal but the club appear unwilling to grant that request.

      Juventus CEO Fabio Patratici said this week: “Fortunately, there is still a year on Ronaldo’s contract, so we have time to talk to him. That’s not a priority right now.”
      Reports in Spain suggest Ronaldo’s super-agent Jorge Mendes is in discussions with Real Madrid over a stunning return while Le Parisien thinks Paris Saint-Germain are monitoring the situation closely.
      In the event that Kylian Mbappe does leave, club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi will be desperate to land either Ronaldo or Lionel Messi.
      The Le Parisien report also claims Mendes and Al-Khelaifi are in close contact and have a good relationship, regularly texting or video calling each other. 

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      Ronaldo, 36, was brought in for £99m with one of the primary targets to help lead the club back to the top of European football.
      Juve have not won the Champions League since 1996 – although they were beaten finalists in 1997, 1998, 2003, 2015 and 2017.
      And since Ronaldo’s arrival in Turin, their knockout record does not make pretty reading.
      A hat-trick in the second leg of their 2018-19 last-16 clash against Atletico Madrid inspired their only knockout tie victory.
      Ajax dumped them out in the very next round that year before shock exits at the hands of Lyon and now Porto.
      Domestically, Ronaldo has won two Serie A crowns but no Coppa Italias – and Andrea Pirlo’s side currently sit third in the table, ten points adrift of leaders Inter Milan.

      Manager Andrea Pirlo only pockets £1.6million-per-year after taking charge of the club

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      Romelu Lukaku’s incredible Mediterranean diet which has made him Inter Milan superstar including two plates of gnocchi

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      ROMELU LUKAKAU has shared his Mediterranean diet of salad, fish, chicken and pasta that has turned him into an Inter Milan superstar.
      The 27-year-old admitted he was overweight while at Manchester United due to a digestive problem that has since been corrected in Italy.

      The Belgian loads up on salads, chicken breast and Shirataki pasta

      Romelu Lukaku has shared the diet that has turned him into an Inter Milan superstarCredit: AP:Associated Press

      The Belgian dropped over a stone upon his arrival in Serie A following a strict diet carefully selected by the Nerazzurri’s medical staff.
      Lukaku has already scored 18 league goals this season to spearhead Inter’s title charge and he has put his success down to his new physique.
      Speaking in a podcast with Matteo Pincella, the club’s chief nutritionist, the striker revealed that he’s never felt better.
      As reported by Sky Sport Italia, via the Mail, he said: “Since I joined Inter I have changed my diet and I can say that I have never felt so strong.

      “My diet consists of salads for lunch, a lot of chicken breast, Shirataki pasta.

      Since I joined Inter I have changed my diet and I can say that I have never felt so strong
      Romelu Lukaku

      “I don’t change my way of eating much, for how we play we must have a very strong physique, we run a lot: since I have followed this lifestyle I feel better on the pitch, I feel more reactive and faster.
      “I love carbohydrates and I love potatoes, sweet potatoes and black rice, but I don’t eat a lot of pasta.
      “I’ve always been an explosive player with muscles but Italy took me to another level. I have never felt so strong. I have reached another level, physically and mentally.”

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      Lukaku then revealed that he loads up on carbs after games to help him recover with Italian gnocchi being his preferred choice.
      He added: “I consume a lot of carbohydrates after games. Most of the time I eat two packs of gnocchi, it depends on what the chef has prepared. They go into circulation quickly and they help me a lot.”
      He continued: “After the matches I also eat two plates of gnocchi!”

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      Cristiano Ronaldo ‘WILL be allowed to quit Juventus in summer transfer if he wants to go’ after Champions League exit

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      CRISTIANO RONALDO will reportedly be allowed to leave Juventus this summer.
      Fabrizio Romano claims the Italians will not stand in his way if Ronnie, 36, decides to call it quits following Tuesday’s Champions League exit to Porto.

      Juventus will not stand in Cristiano Ronaldo’s way if he wants to leave this summerCredit: Getty Images – Getty

      Ronaldo’s dreams of a sixth European title were dashed again when the 10-men Portuguese side beat Juve in extra time of their last-16 clash.
      The Turin outfit also look set to have their nine-season Serie A title run ended by Inter Milan.
      And Romano claims Juve are ready to let Ronaldo go if he doesn’t want to stay past the end of the season.
      Romano said: “Juventus doesn’t keep players who want to leave the club. If Cristiano decided to leave, they’ll let him leave. 

      “He hasn’t said anything to the club and at the moment they are happy and planning with him.”
      Meanwhile, Juve boss Andrea Pirlo has bemoaned the Porto free-kick that condemned Juve to another early Champions League elimination.
      He said: “We choose the players to go in the wall. It had never happened before that they’d turn around. Maybe they felt it was so far out that they didn’t sense the danger.
      “It was a mistake, it usually doesn’t happen, the players didn’t feel it was a dangerous situation and conceded a goal.

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      “When you make four big errors over two legs in the Champions League Round of 16, you can get eliminated.
      “We didn’t get it wrong when Porto were down to 10, as all we could do was try to spread them out by moving the ball side to side and packing the penalty area with bodies. That is how the goals arrived.
      “It will take a few days to cancel this game from our minds, but then we must face every game with the right attitude, realise we’re still only in March and have time to climb the Serie A table.”

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      Paul Gascoigne sends Lazio inspirational message in Italian before heading to Caribbean for Italian I’m A Celeb camp

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      PAUL GASCOIGNE sent a message to Lazio fans in Italian before heading to a Caribbean island for Italy’s version of I’m A Celebrity.
      Daft as a brush Gazza, 53, was at the Rome club for three years in the early 90s and became an idol for the notorious Curva Nord ultras at the Olympic Stadium.

      Paul Gascoigne sent his former side Lazio a message of support in Italian before heading into I’m A Celeb

      When he arrived in the Italian capital from Tottenham in 1992 for £5.5million – £11.5m in today’s money – more than 10,000 fans were there to greet him.
      And fans quickly took him to their hearts after he scored a last-gasp equaliser against fierce local rivals Roma in the Derby della Capitale.
      Speaking on Lazio’s Twitter page, Gascoigne – who has been taking lessons in Italian – said: “Hi guys. It’s Gascoigne.
      “I want to send my regards to all of you and to top striker Ciro Immobile.

      “Let’s get Lazio back to the top of Europe, the place where they should be.
      ”A big kiss and good luck to you for the future.”
      Dressed in a grey hoodie, the former Spurs and Newcastle star looked fit and well.
      He has been in training ready for two months on an island off Honduras where he will be up against 15 other competitors in the survival reality TV show which starts on Italian TV next Monday.

      Gazza spent three years with the Italian side before joining Rangers in 1995Credit: Rex Features
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      Gazza left Lazio for Rangers in 1995 but regularly returns to Rome where he is presented to adoring fans.
      On his last trip, one banner said, ”Welcome back Gazza. Lionheart, headstrong, pure talent, real man: still our hero’, which left the loveable Geordie in tears.
      Within minutes of the video being posted, it had been viewed thousands of times with one fan commenting: “Gascoigne – what a hero! I loved how this madman played.”
      While another said: “Gazza… poetry with his feet… only you mad, quick tempered and a phenomenon.”
      Gazza was well known for his pranks on Lazio team-mates including one where a young Roberto Di Matteo got the shock of his life after the England star slipped a snake in the pocket of his jacket and then asked him if he had any change.
      While last month in a podcast the 57-cap Three Lions hero revealed how then-Lazio boss Dino Zoff gave him a rollicking after he fooled him and team-mates into thinking he had been involved in a serious moped accident.
      He lay sprawled on the ground covered in tomato ketchup as blood and when concerned colleagues rushed to his help he jumped up and started licking himself.
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      Watch baffled Porto boss Conceicao leave press conference after just 50 seconds as NOBODY asks question after Juve win

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      PORTO manager Sergio Conceicao was left baffled as NOBODY asked him a question after his side’s stunning win against Juventus.
      It meant the post-match press conference on Zoom lasted just 50 seconds, with Conceicao getting up and leaving.

      Porto manager Sergio Conceicao was left baffled after NOBODY asked a question after their win against Juventus

      After initially sitting down, the press officer asked: “OK. Good evening for all of you following us through Zoom. Any questions?”
      Following a moments of silence, he said: “For those of you following through Zoom, I would like you to pose your questions.
      “I can’t see any requests now.”
      Amazingly, despite Serie A champions Juve having been dumped out of the Champions League, not one question was asked.

      Losing patience, the press officer added: “That’s it? Well? Any questions? That’s it then, let’s go.”
      Despite the bizarre presser, it was still a memorable night for Porto, who progressed into the quarter-finals on away goals and with ten men.
      The Portuguese giants came into the return tie 2-1 ahead and added to their lead after 19 minutes as Sergio Oliveira opened the scoring.
      Juve hit back, though, as a double from Federico Chiesa took the game into extra-time.

      Goals, a red card, a Sergio Oliveira free-kick and plenty of extra-time drama for ten-man Porto…Juventus vs. Porto in 60 seconds! 😅 pic.twitter.com/VLdS78AYYk
      — Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) March 10, 2021

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      But Porto did so with a man down, after Mehdi Taremi was sent off after a second yellow for kicking the ball away, deemed a time wasting offence.
      Despite the disadvantage, the visiting side remarkably scored again in added time with Oliveira doubling his tally through a pile-driving free-kick.
      Midfielder Adrien Rabiot pulled one back just minutes later but it was too little too late, as Porto’s fight back and resilience paid off.
      Despite the five-goal thriller, and red card drama, still no one saw fit to address the mastermind behind the upset, Conceicao, afterwards.

      Porto celebrate knocking Juventus out of the Champions LeagueCredit: AFP or licensors

      Sergio Conceicao congratulates his players after the upsetCredit: Getty Images – Getty More

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      Juve in crisis with Euro hopes dashed, title bid fading, financial hole that could see Ronaldo leave & Pirlo facing sack

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      CAPELLO called it a ‘gift’… Del Piero demanded ‘change’… Pirlo called out ‘mistakes’…
      This isn’t the way Juventus are supposed to be.

      Andrea Pirlo faces a huge fight to turn around Juventus’ fortunesCredit: Reuters

      Cristiano Ronaldo came in for sharp criticism after the Porto defeatCredit: AP:Associated Press

      The Old Lady fell to a shock exit in the Champions League last-16 for the second year in a row and the reaction of players, club legends and the press was damning.
      Italian daily Corriere dello Sport described Cristiano Ronaldo’s ‘betrayal’ of the team. For Il Mattino, the exit ‘puts everything into question’. Libero described it as a ‘failure of the club management’.
      Any club boasting the grandeur of the Bianconeri will react badly to every defeat but Tuesday night’s away goals exit appeared to neatly summarise the all-encompassing issues facing the club today.
      It was telling how Ronaldo transitioned from being the inescapable protagonist of the European knockout stages to the flimsiest component of the wall that collapsed for Porto’s de facto winner.

      The 36-year-old arguably secured his move to Turin by belting a godly overhead kick past Gianluigi Buffon in the 2018 quarter-finals.
      It was the sort of moment that built his amazing Real Madrid legacy but a first-year hat-trick past old foes Atletico Madrid stands as his only tie-winning contribution in the knockouts for Juventus.
      Criticism of Ronaldo’s weak display on Tuesday was inevitable and talk has naturally turned towards his exit.
      The winger still has another season to run on his contract and the club may well put off any difficult decisions for as long as possible.

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      Wednesday’s Corriere dello Sport front page highlighted the ‘betrayal’ by Ronaldo

      La Gazzetta dello Sport wrote of ‘another disaster’ in the Champions League
      They will know that it is currently inconceivable that the team would be better without Ronaldo than with him.
      This season’s tally of 27 strikes in 32 appearances actually represents his best goals-per-games ratio of his three years with Juventus.
      The problem is that no one else is regularly scoring and would Pirlo be wise to reduce Ronaldo’s influence to try and squeeze more out of Alvaro Morata, Paulo Dybala and Dejan Kulusevski?
      The coach is another man being subjected to a stern probation period and he could get away with only winning the Supercoppa and Coppa Italia, were Juve to beat Atalanta in May’s final.
      But that position is always vulnerable to review after such a loss, despite reports beforehand that the club would stick with him no matter what.
      And what of Andrea Agnelli?
      The chairman so busily touting his club’s entitlement to a place in the European Super League that he may have missed that Juve’s recent conquerors would have decidedly not made the cut.
      Indeed, the club’s recent European record is anything but ‘Super’ – yet could be worth every penny for Amazon’s upcoming docu-series.

      Against two Champions League final appearances under old coach Massimiliano Allegri, the Bianconeri have otherwise made it to the last-four only once in over 20 years.
      Perhaps Agnelli is so keen to ensure the inflation of another cash cow to bolster against the financial doom threatening the Old Lady.
      Pretty much every club has found the going extremely tough in the pandemic but every one of Juventus’ revenue streams fell last year with debt topping £300million.
      Player sales have been vital to cash flow but that well can only dig so deep without seriously affecting the team.
      Throughout the past decade, the club has been able to rely on the Scudetto for reassurance and even that has disappeared this year.
      Inter Milan, a club themselves clouded in a sense of perpetual crisis, sit ten points ahead with AC Milan popping into second place.

      The old accusations that Juventus were failing in Europe because they were finding domestic life too easy have been tested, and failed.
      Perhaps this has all arrived at the perfect moment, forcing the club to hold off its insatiable desire for instant gratification to rebuild around the youth of Pirlo, Weston McKennie, Federico Chiesa and more.
      That may well mean a couple of years without silverware and, heaven forbid, the weakening of Agnelli’s Super League claim.
      But the first step to making a big change for a better tomorrow is always acceptance.
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