{"id":281571,"date":"2026-02-05T05:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/281571\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:42:10","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-set-to-miss-second-match-as-strike-goes-on-threatens-to-leave-al-nassr-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/281571\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo set to miss second match as strike goes on; &#8216;threatens to leave Al Nassr&#8217; in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo is continuing his strike at Al-Nassr with the Manchester United and Real Madrid legend now threatening to leave, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Portugal international is far from pleased with their lack of ambition in the transfer market and feels the\u00a0Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) is favouring other clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Nassr have only signed 21-year-old Iraqi centre-back Hayer Abdulkareem in the winter transfer window, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/cristiano-ronaldo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ronaldo<\/a> is reportedly upset that Al-Hilal are being able to sign Karim Benzema and other big-money deals.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining Ronaldo\u2019s issue with PIF on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/cristiano-ronaldo-slammed-self-indulgent-nonsense-murphy-man-utd-punished\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">journalist Ben Jacobs told talkSPORT<\/a>: \u201cCristiano Ronaldo is upset with the PIF strategy in particular.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd made a statement by not making himself available for Al Nassr\u2019s win over Al Riyadh earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow some in Saudi allege that Ronaldo didn\u2019t want Karim Benzema, former teammate, to go to Al Hilal.<\/p>\n<p>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/predicting-2026-27-starting-xis-big-six-anderson-man-utd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Predicting the 2026\/27 starting XIs of the Big Six: who signs Anderson and are Gyokeres, Isak dropped?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd instead felt it would be better for Saudi football for him to stay at Al Ittihad, or even join Al Nassr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOthers say that this is a problem about central funding and how it is allocated specifically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Ronaldo\u2019s point, and Al Nassr\u2019s fans have been protesting as well, is why Al Hilal were given so much money to spent before the Club World Cup when Al Nassr\u2019s portion of the pie was a little bit smaller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what\u2019s interesting, is whether it\u2019s Benzema specific, or whether there is a broader disagreement over strategy and ultimately funding, Ronaldo hasn\u2019t been backed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s expected to be fined, he\u2019s likely to be punished for not making himself available for selection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/a-bonus-famous-f365-england-ladder-as-man-utd-players-climb-and-arsenal-stars-tumble\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A bonus famous F365 England ladder as Man Utd players climb and Arsenal stars tumble<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.br\/futebol\/mercado-da-bola\/artigo\/_\/id\/16269622\/cristiano-ronaldo-segue-sem-garantia-mudancas-arabia-saudita-mantem-greve-ameaca-saida-al-nassr-junho\" target=\"_blank\">And now ESPN Brasil is reporting that<\/a> Ronaldo \u2018is on track to miss his second consecutive game in the\u00a0Saudi Pro League\u2019 as his strike continues at Al-Nassr.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo was already absent from their match against\u00a0Al Riyadh on Monday and now looks set to skip their game versus Al-Ittihad on Friday too.<\/p>\n<p>The report explains: \u2018Among other points, Ronaldo made it clear behind the scenes that his return depends on the prompt reactivation of powers by the Al Nassr management and, naturally, that the interference they suffered in the recently closed transfer window does not happen again in the middle of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In recent months, Portuguese officials\u00a0Sim\u00e3o Coutinho\u00a0(sporting director) and\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Semedo\u00a0(CEO) were suspended from their positions by the PIF (Portuguese Football Federation), which angered Cristiano Ronaldo and hindered the arrival of high-profile reinforcements for his compatriot\u00a0Jorge Jesus\u00a0. Equally important, there was a significant cut in the club\u2019s expenses.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Despite interest from around Europe and Major League Soccer, Ronaldo reckons it \u2018would be detrimental to his final preparations for the\u00a0World Cup\u2019 if he left now.<\/p>\n<p>But he has \u2018threatened to leave\u2019 in June with the report also confirming his release clause of \u20ac50m, which some outlets have claimed he\u2019s willing to pay himself.<\/p>\n<p>Former Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy described Ronaldo\u2019s choice to go on strike as \u201cself-indulgent nonsense\u201d and insisted he should dig into his own savings to help out the club.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy said on\u00a0talkSPORT: \u201cMaybe Ronaldo could give some of his earnings to the club to then help them get more players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never heard of something so ridiculous in all my life, self-indulgent nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before Murphy added: \u201cIt is absolutely bizarre when you consider the earning capacity of Cristiano and Benzema.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor either of them to be disillusioned, upset about the way their clubs are run, to put it mildly, is almost unthinkable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/arsenal-out-thought-chelsea-guardiola-controversy-deleted-post\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal \u2018out-thought\u2019 by Chelsea but \u2018squeeze through\u2019 before Guardiola controversy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo is continuing his strike at Al-Nassr with the Manchester United and Real Madrid legend now threatening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15561,1100,61,60,917,43,3166,3405,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-281571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cristiano-ronaldo","9":"tag-home-page","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-manchester-united","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-real-madrid","15":"tag-soccer","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}