Cristiano Ronaldo’s one-word reply to rumours he could leave Manchester United to join Sporting

Having hit 37 years of age, Cristiano Ronaldo is approaching the back end of his career.

However, when looking back at his many, many accomplishments over his long and distinguished career, many fans look back to the match he played as a teenager against Manchester United, wearing Sporting Club Portugal’s colours and running rings around United’s defence.

Sporting CP was where it all started for Ronaldo, his boyhood club, and there was a notion that he could return to the Lisbon-based club to see out the rest of his career before retirement, a full-circle moment. However, Ronaldo personally denied recent rumours that he was looking to move back to Sporting this very summer.

The Instagram account of Sport TV Portugal shared a picture of a car spotted at Sporting’s Jose Alvalade Stadium, claiming it belonged to Ronaldo, and that he was on the verge of completing a sensational move back to the Liga NOS club.

However, Ronaldo was not interested in the use of his name for gossip-mongering, simply writing “Fake” in the comments, putting a rest to those rumours and theories for the time being.