Bayern Munich did not consider signing Ronaldo (Getty)
Team CEO commented Bayern Munich The German, Oliver Kahn, on the media reports that indicated the interest of the “Bavarian” club to sign a star Portugal national team And Manchester United, Cristiano Ronaldo, during the last summer transfer market.
Oliver Kahn confirmed that the “Bundesliga” champion held talks about contracting Ronaldo last summer, after the latter expressed his desire to leave Old Trafford for one of the major European clubs competing in the Champions League this season, but he failed to achieve his goal. .
“We talked for a short time about Cristiano’s move to Munich, and maybe in Dortmund they did that as well,” Kahn said, in comments reported by the British newspaper, “Mirror”, on Thursday.
Speaking about the 37-year-old, the former Bayern Munich goalkeeper added, “Ronaldo is one of the greatest players of the last decade, but we quickly rejected the idea of contracting him.”
Ronaldo moved to the English team Manchester United in the summer of 2021 from the Italian team Juventus, and succeeded in scoring 24 goals with the team in all competitions last season, but the “Red Devils” failed to qualify for the Champions League competition by occupying sixth place in the “Premier League”, He made his salary drop by 25 .%.