How Cristiano Ronaldo did with his carreer after leaving Manchester United

A leading role awaited him in the great reconstruction of Real Madrid. Florentino Pérez returned to the presidency of the White House with a wave of stellar hires - Kaká, Karim Benzema, Xabi Alonso, Ezequiel Garay and Raul Albiol, among others - for Manuel Pellegrini, the brand new coach. Although none like Ronaldo, who in that transfer market for the 2009/10 season became at that time the most expensive footballer in history thanks to a transfer valued at 94 million euros.

About 80,000 fans received him at the Santiago Bernabéu, a place where year after year he showed exponential growth. It was a cycle in which Cristiano Ronaldo was definitely one of the best footballers of all time, winning another two Ballons d'Or and fighting for the throne with Lionel Messi. His first five seasons at the White House were huge: he scored 252 goals in 246 games in all competitions, winning a King's Cup and a League with Mourinho, and later another cup and the Champions League with Carlo Ancelotti.

His last four seasons in Spain began with 61 goals in 54 games in the 2014/15 campaign. That season he scored 48 league goals –61 in total–, of which 38 came from open play (the most of his career). And in the following campaigns he accumulated 137 annotations in 138 games. They are beastly numbers but they reflect that decrease in the number of minutes to dose efforts and, logically, less time to convert.

He went to Italy as a Madrid legend, with two Leagues and four Champions among his most outstanding collective conquests, in addition to four Ballons d'Or and being the first player in history to win the Golden Shoe four times. 

He came to Juventus with the challenge of being European champion again, but mainly he moved to Italy to feed that competitive beast that is inside him. The truth is that it would be crazy to say that his time in Italy was a failure. In fact, if we analyze it crudely in numbers, we would even say that it was a success. However, the reality is that he has not managed to be what he once knew, and he did not finish adapting at any time to playing in Italy, and in Juventus.