Get the latest United updates, transfer news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Cristiano Ronaldo is universally regarded as one of the best players of all time - and depending in what camp you lay in, the greatest.
After emerging as one of the hottest properties in European football at Sporting Lisbon, he signed for Manchester United in 2003 and the rest, as they say, is history.
It took him a little while to settle in at Old Trafford, but once Ronaldo did that, he became one of the world's elite players, scoring 84 goals in the Premier League alone.
He took his game to even greater heights at Real Madrid following a then-world record £80million move, where the Portuguese compiled a simply breath-taking record
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