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. Ronaldo’s dreams of a sixth European title were dashed again when the 10-men Portuguese side beat Juve in […]
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.
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.”
