FOOTBALL: Cristiano Ronaldo wants to leave Manchester United in January

The Barcelona city side has become one of the city’s main tourist attractions.

The Por­tuguese leg­end was side­lined in Sun­day’s 6–3 defeat to Man­ches­ter City, but the man­ag­er said he did so “out of respect for his great career”.

The Tele­graph reports that he “hopes to move in Jan­u­ary” after fail­ing to leave this summer.

Ten Hag want­ed to keep the 37-year-old Por­tuguese strik­er at Old Traf­ford as soon as he arrived.

How­ev­er, accord­ing to this report, if there is a con­vinc­ing offer, he is “pos­i­tive to leave”.

The vet­er­an play­er has been side­lined this sea­son after a con­tro­ver­sial run this summer.

Unde­cid­ed Ronal­do returned late to pre-sea­son training.

As a result, he was placed on the bench in the open­ing match against Brighton.

He returned to the start­ing line-up the fol­low­ing week but was humil­i­at­ed along with his team-mates in a 4–0 crush­ing defeat to Brentford.

Ronal­do was then rel­e­gat­ed to the bench as Unit­ed went on to win four con­sec­u­tive top-flight wins.

How­ev­er, despite hav­ing anoth­er chance in the Europa League, the Red Dev­ils lost at home to Real Sociedad and it was a clean slate.

A week lat­er, how­ev­er, the super­star was in top form as he scored a penal­ty against Sher­iff in the same com­pe­ti­tion on 15 Sep­tem­ber, mak­ing it his final game for the club.

Now that sub­sti­tute Antho­ny Mar­tial has returned from injury and scored twice against City, his chances of becom­ing a reg­u­lar again seem even slimmer.