At one point Madrid considered sending him back to Racing Santander, the club they had signed him from ... stands after miscontrolling a ball in a match against Real Sociedad in 2017.

In a club of giants, where the weight of history presses heavily on every touch of the ball, one man carved out a legend so sprawling that even now, new layers of his greatness continue to emerge. At ...

While he may have lost out on the Ballon d'Or to Rodri earlier this year (or, as Real Madrid would put it ... action strikers of the modern era, Ronaldo signed for €46m from Inter Milan in ...

Real Madrid signed Cristiano Ronaldo for a world-record fee of £80m back in 2009 – but what happened to the other seven players who arrived at the club that summer? Ronaldo was 24 at the time ...