FOOTBALL: Cristiano Ronaldo is open to a return to Italy in january and Napoli are said to be interested in the striker who was kicked out of Manchester United

Cris­tiano Ronal­do is open to a new job in Italy after being dumped by one Pre­mier League club after another.

Sun­Sport under­stands Napoli remain ‘inter­est­ed’ in the leg­endary strik­er head­ing for an exit at Old Traf­ford after his actions against Spurs last week.

Sources close to the Por­tuguese star say his advis­ers have reached out to Pre­mier League clubs Chelsea, New­cas­tle and Arsenal.

But Unit­ed’s rivals see the 37-year-old as too dangerous.

Now, after win­ning two titles in three years with Juven­tus, Ron­nie is set to return to Italy.

A source told Sun­Sport: “Chelsea were inter­est­ed in Ronal­do over the sum­mer, but he’s no longer on their radar.

“Arse­nal and New­cas­tle rec­og­nize that he has the nec­es­sary qual­i­ties to reach their goals.

“How­ev­er, both clubs are con­cerned about the impact his arrival will have on them.

“Right now the most like­ly is Italy. Napoli were inter­est­ed in Ronal­do in the sum­mer and are still interested.

“I believe his arrival will be of great help to them as they aim to stay high in Serie A and progress in the Cham­pi­ons League.

“But it all depends on the club being able to meet his very high wage demands.

Napoli’s cur­rent top play­er is Pol­ish inter­na­tion­al Piotr Zielin­s­ki, who earns €103,000 a week.

Ronal­do was earn­ing £480,000 a week when he returned to Unit­ed in 2021.

How­ev­er, he failed to qual­i­fy for the Cham­pi­ons League this sea­son, result­ing in a 25% pay cut.

Ronal­do is cur­rent­ly earn­ing €411,000 a week at United.

And if it is to force a trans­fer to Napoli, it will be that he is will­ing to take a fur­ther pay cut.

Mean­while, Unit­ed have been linked with sign­ing Napoli strik­er Vic­tor Osimhen to replace Ronal­do this summer.

He scored his fifth goal of the sea­son in last night’s 1–0 win over Roma and is val­ued at more than €114 million.

Sun­sports are break­ing the news after Ronal­do refused to come off the bench against Spurs and went on a ram­page in the tunnel.

Coach Erik Ten Hag con­firmed he had walked out and urged him to leave the start­ing line-up.

Ronal­do will not play in Unit­ed’s draw with Chelsea on Sat­ur­day and will train alone.

His atti­tude is ful­ly backed by the upper man­age­ment of the club.

How­ev­er, this is not the first time Ronal­do has left a match ear­ly, as he was sub­sti­tut­ed at half-time in a pre-sea­son friend­ly against Rayo Vallecano.