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This isn’t the first time PSG’s links with Cristiano Ronaldo have surfaced. The Portuguese star’s links with the club have remained ever since Ligue 1’s nouveau giants were placed under Qatari ownership. Ronaldo fueled the rumours himself a couple of years back, having a ‘private-but-rather-public’ conversation on the touchline with then PSG boss, Laurent Blanc.
Ronaldo was alleged to have told Blanc that he would ‘love to work with him’, although plenty of cynics later reminded us that it was simply a tactic to ensure Real Madrid offered him a greater pay rise in negotiations for his new contract, which he signed at the end of the 2015/16 season.
PSG chief Nasser El-Khelaifi would jump at the chance to sign Ronaldo, and can comfortably stump up the circa €400 million it would require to bring the Portuguese star to France, especially given the higher taxation in the country. With a brand like Ronaldo though, PSG could comfortably justify the move on a financial level, and he’d be entirely perfect on a sporting level as well.
