The Portuguese star, who has been persistently
linked with a return to Old Trafford, signed a
three-year extension to his deal on Sunday
Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo has
ended any speculation that he could be on his
way back to Manchester United by signing a
new three-year extension to his contract which
will keep him at the club until 2018.
Goal exclusively revealed back in June that los
Blancos planned to renew Ronaldo's deal
following the successful completion of signing
Gareth Bale from Tottenham this summer.
Ronaldo, who has scored 203 goals in as many
games since his €94 million move from Old
Trafford in 2009, insists he has no intention of
leaving the Santiago Bernabeu.
"I will be honest with you. Everyone knows I
was in Manchester for six years, they gave me
many things, and I don't forget that," he told
reporters.
"But Manchester is the past, now it's Madrid.
This is my home, my family's here, I'm really
happy here.
"I respect the clubs who knocked on the door
to ask about me, but they always knew my
only goal was to be here and to play at this
club, maybe until the end of my career.
"Nobody knows the future, but I'm going to be
here for five more years and I just want to win
trophies for this club. I try to do my best, like
always."
Ronaldo's future at the club was in doubt when
the forward publicly revealed he was "sad" and
rumours suggested that he was not happy with
the support he was receiving from the club.
The 28-year-old says it is all forgotten about
now and he is targeting another 200 goals for
Madrid in the next five years.
"We have our good and bad days. That day
[last season after Granada game] I was a bit
sad, something that can happen more times
during the season," he added.
"It's normal and human. Probably I shouldn't
have said that in public, but I'm human and I
make my own mistakes. It's in the past though.
I feel good now and I want to stay in this club
for many years.
"I'm an ambitious person and I don't want to
set any limit. I'm going to try to score 200
more goals in the next four or five years here.
It's not the most important thing, but I'm
going to try it.
"Leaving Real Madrid was something I could
think about. I wanted to stay at this club, the
best in the world in my opinion. If you leave
Real Madrid, there is not another destination,
because you are already on the top."
The new deal, which will reportedly see
Ronaldo become the highest paid player in La
Liga with a net salary of €17m, was already
being negotiated at the end of last season, the
Portuguese star revealed and he insists it is
not about the money.
"We have an agreement since the end of the
last season, but we've made it concrete now,"
he added.
"The president gave me his word and I gave
him mine. This is something I always wanted.
The feeling I had was to stay at this club and it
didn't took long to make the decision, at least
for me.
"Being the best paid in the world was not the
main thing. There are many things more
important that just money. I'm not going to lie
to you: it's important, but not the priority.
There is a winning project, being at the best
team in the world, the one that signs the best
players.
"This club has enough size to win more
Champions Leagues, more Ligas, more Copas...
Money was not a big deal. Being the first one,
the second one or the third one is not
important, because I feel great."
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