Confirmed! Ronaldo's Last Football Club : Manchester United!

Manchester United is delighted to confirm that the club has reached agreement with Juventus for the transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo, subject to agreement of personal terms, visa and medical.

Ronaldo, a five-time Ballon d’Or winner, has so far won over 30 major trophies during his career, including five UEFA Champions League titles, four FIFA Club World Cups, seven league titles in England, Spain and Italy, and the European Championship for his native Portugal.

In his first debut for Manchester United, he scored 118 goals in 292 games.

Everyone at the club looks forward to welcoming Cristiano back to Manchester.

Rio Ferdinand had not long tweeted a meme of a smug-looking Leonardo DiCaprio from Django Unchained. Ferdinand sullied himself earlier this summer by suggesting Raphael Varane was using United to increase his salary at Real Madrid on Twitter and he had revelled in the retweets and likes following a story he could become United's director of football back in 2019.

It would have been easy to dismiss Ferdinand's tweet. But Ferdinand was Ronaldo's teammate for six years and is his friend. They stay in touch. Something was afoot.

At ten to 12, an agency contact suggested United had got involved. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's press conference was due to start at 1.15pm, so there was plenty of time for a reporter or an outlet to run a well-sourced story on a potential Ronaldo homecoming before it started.

There was radio silence from United. That was telling. At this point, it would have been remiss not to draft a story informed by multiple and credible sources.