{"id":440039,"date":"2023-07-18T06:20:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T10:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=440039"},"modified":"2023-07-18T06:20:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T10:20:33","slug":"ronaldo-claims-saudi-league-is-better-than-mls-after-messis-transfer","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ronaldo-claims-saudi-league-is-better-than-mls-after-messis-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo claims Saudi League is better than MLS after Messi&#8217;s transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo has claimed that the Saudi league is better than the MLS a day after the transfer of Lionel Messi to Inter Miami was announced.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cristiano Ronaldo has picked his side \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bQC1f3ua05\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bQC1f3ua05<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; GOAL (@goal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goal\/status\/1681226675986497537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo was one of the first big names to head to Saudi Arabia in January after Manchester United terminated his contract.<\/p>\n<p>Since then many players have headed to the Middle Eastern country like Karim Benzema N&#8217;Golo Kante and Steven Gerrard as a manager.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese has been linked with a return to Europe and specifically to his former club Real Madrid, but the 38-year-old confirmed that he will be staying with Al-Nassr.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo indeed confirmed that he is not returning to Europe any time soon as he stated that a lot of the European leagues have lost their &#8216;credibility&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m 100 per cent sure I won&#8217;t return to any European club. I opened the way to the Saudi league and now all the players are coming here.&#8221; he said<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I won&#8217;t return to European football, the door is completely closed,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m 38-years-old, also European football has lost lot of quality. The only league that for me has a lot of quality and is at a higher level than all the others is the Premier League.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo has claimed that the Saudi league is better than the MLS a day after the transfer of Lionel Messi to Inter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":440040,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16904],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[17961],"acf":{"announce":"The 38-year-old has taken credit for the avalanche of star players heading to the Middle East","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440039"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=440039"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=440039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}