Cristiano Ronaldo has signed for Saudi Arabian staff Al-Nassr FC, in response to the membership.

The 37-year-old joins on a two-and-a-half-year deal after leaving Manchester United final month.

It adopted an explosive tv interview through which the ahead stated he felt betrayed by the membership and didn’t respect their Dutch supervisor Erik ten Hag.

An announcement on the Al-Nassr’s Instagram says: “This is more than history in the making.

“This is a signing that won’t solely encourage our membership to attain even higher success however encourage our league, our nation and future generations, girls and boys to be the most effective model of themselves.”

Ronaldo is ready to endure a medical at Mrsool Park, the trendy residence to Al-Nassr, earlier than finishing formalities and being revealed to followers within the membership’s yellow and blue colors within the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh within the coming days.

While the signing will seemingly show an enormous enhance for Middle Eastern soccer, it should additionally gas the talk about Saudi Arabia utilizing so-called “sportswashing” to spice up the nation’s picture internationally.

The World Cup in Qatar noticed him rating in Portugal’s opening group sport towards Ghana, his 118th purpose for his nation, earlier than being dropped from the beginning XI for the knockout rounds, through which the staff made a quarter-final exit with a 1-0 loss to Morocco.