Jose Mourinho has insisted that Cristiano Ronaldo was never offered to Manchester United but hailed Juventus as an ‘absolutely top team’.
Ronaldo had been linked with a return to United before his Italian-record transfer to Juve, but Mourinho made it clear that was not the case.
“Juventus is one of the teams in Europe that invested to win the Champions League because they don’t need to invest to win the Scudetto,” said the former Inter boss after the Red Devils’ 2-0 win at Burnley.
Jose Mourinho has insisted that Cristiano Ronaldo was never offered to Manchester United but hailed Juventus as an ‘absolutely top team’.
Ronaldo had been linked with a return to United before his Italian-record transfer to Juve, but Mourinho made it clear that was not the case.
“Juventus is one of the teams in Europe that invested to win the Champions League because they don’t need to invest to win the Scudetto,” said the former Inter boss after the Red Devils’ 2-0 win at Burnley.
“They win the Scudetto for six or seven years. The objective is clearly to win the Champions League, which they were close twice when they reached the Final, so they are a top team in Europe that made one of the biggest spending – I think after Liverpool it must be them.
“Fantastic players – Cristiano, [Emre] Can and [Leonardo] Bonucci. Absolutely top. But they are going to have two very difficult matches against us.
“Cristiano was never on my table to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to Cristiano to come to us. It was never on the table.”