Super-agent Jorge Mendes and Cristiano Ronaldo have been working together for years. In fact, Mendes was with him since the start of his professional career and helped him, while former Manchester United player repaid that with great career and great transfers, which brought a lot of money for the agent, as well as reputation. But, after the fiasco with coach Erik ten Hag and Manchester United, the pair ‘broke up’ and another agent got the 30 million euros commision for Ronaldo’s transfer to Al-Nassr. And that surprised a lot of people, since Cristiano and Jorge became good friends over the years. Ronaldo was Mendes’ best man at his wedding, and it’s rumored that he gave him a wedding present – a Greek island. Conversely, Mendes is the godfather of Ronaldo’s son Cristiano Jr. And according to El Mundo, the relationship went south due to unsucesfull transfers to Bayern Munich and Chelsea.🚨Cristiano Ronaldo told his old agent Jorge Mendes: 🗣️”Either you get me Chelsea or Bayern, or we break up” [@elmundoes] pic.twitter.com/0PC6Qj7E4Y— Football Talk (@FootballTalkHQ) January 24, 2023 The Spanish newspapers broke the news that last summer, Ronaldo wanted out of Old Trafford and instructed his agent and friend Mendes to get him a deal with either Chelsea or Bayern Munich. And he wasn’t so polite with his son’s godfather, apparently telling him „Sign me for Bayern or Chelsea, or we split up“. Wheather this sentence was actually true or not, the pair are no longer communicating. Unlike Chelsea, who gave up relatively quickly due to coach Thomas Tuchel’s strong resistance to the idea of his new owner Todd Boehly (who didn’t forget the German’s ‘no’), El Mundo claims that Bayern had interest, but it ended as soon as the Bavarians found out that Ronaldo decided to skip the pre-training trip. In fact, that was the final straw for all other clubs (Atletico Madrid, Borussia Dortmund), even thou the player claimed that his late return for pre-season training had been due to his daughter’s illness. His daughter’s sickness came just three months after the tragic death of his baby son.No longer together: Jorge Mendes lost 30,000,000 euros of commission due to a quarrel with RonaldoBut German Bild claims that Bayern did consider the idea of signing Ronaldo, but quickly gave up, due to his wage demands, team’s structure etc.„We discussed the topic – otherwise we wouldn’t be doing our job well. Personally, I think Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest footballers that has ever walked the planet. But we came to the conclusion that, for all our appreciation, he would not have fitted our philosophy in the current situation” Bavaria’s CEO Oliver Kahn told BILD in July. Whatever the reason, the transfer didn’t materialize and Ronaldo’s explosive interveiw with Piers Morgan was the last staw for Mendes too. Ronaldo’s personal manager and close friend Ricardo Regufe finished the deal with Al-Nassr.##NAJAVA_MECA_6971601##
