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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Former Manchester United player, Ricardo Lopez, has said his ex-teammate, Cristiano Ronaldo has returned to the club to make them champions.<\/p>\n

Pep Guardiola\u2019s side interest cooled on Friday, paving the way for an Old Trafford return for the football star.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was surprised that Cristiano Ronaldo went to United,\u201d Ricardo told Radio MARCA. \u201cHe surprised me.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnited are a great team, one of the European greats, but they\u2019re not at their best now. He\u2019ll have thought that he can go there and make them champions.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Ricardo warned Ronaldo, saying, \u201cThe weather is very bad. But he knows it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s clear that he wants to keep growing his legendary status.<\/p>\n

\u201cCristiano\u2019s arrival should inject positivity. Now they\u2019re a candidate to win everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Former Manchester United player, Ricardo Lopez, has said his ex-teammate, Cristiano Ronaldo has returned to the club to make them champions. Pep Guardiola\u2019s side interest cooled on Friday, paving the way for an Old Trafford return for the football star. \u201cI was surprised that Cristiano Ronaldo went to United,\u201d Ricardo told Radio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":49181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[1570,2140,885,1642,254,5265,5264,2038],"class_list":["post-49182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-epl","tag-man-utd","tag-nigeria","tag-portugal","tag-ricardo","tag-ronaldo"],"yoast_head":"\nEPL: Ricardo reveals why Ronaldo rejoined Man Utd, warns Portugal captain - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Manchester United player, Ricardo Lopez, has said his ex-teammate, Cristiano Ronaldo has returned to the club to ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-ricardo-reveals-why-ronaldo-rejoined-man-utd-warns-portugal-captain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EPL: Ricardo reveals why Ronaldo rejoined Man Utd, warns Portugal captain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Manchester United player, Ricardo Lopez, has said his ex-teammate, Cristiano Ronaldo has returned to the club to ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-ricardo-reveals-why-ronaldo-rejoined-man-utd-warns-portugal-captain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-29T16:30:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/img-612bafc7dddf6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1320\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"743\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-ricardo-reveals-why-ronaldo-rejoined-man-utd-warns-portugal-captain#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-ricardo-reveals-why-ronaldo-rejoined-man-utd-warns-portugal-captain\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"EPL: Ricardo reveals why Ronaldo rejoined Man Utd, warns Portugal captain\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-29T16:30:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-ricardo-reveals-why-ronaldo-rejoined-man-utd-warns-portugal-captain\"},\"wordCount\":142,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-ricardo-reveals-why-ronaldo-rejoined-man-utd-warns-portugal-captain#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/img-612bafc7dddf6.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"EPL\",\"man utd\",\"Nigeria\",\"Portugal\",\"Ricardo\",\"ronaldo\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-ricardo-reveals-why-ronaldo-rejoined-man-utd-warns-portugal-captain#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-ricardo-reveals-why-ronaldo-rejoined-man-utd-warns-portugal-captain\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/epl-ricardo-reveals-why-ronaldo-rejoined-man-utd-warns-portugal-captain\",\"name\":\"EPL: Ricardo reveals why Ronaldo rejoined Man Utd, warns Portugal captain - 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