{"id":149943,"date":"2026-02-10T08:49:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/149943\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:49:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:49:29","slug":"beckham-hopeful-of-uniting-ronaldo-and-messi-in-historic-inter-miami-transfer-amid-al-nassr-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/149943\/","title":{"rendered":"Beckham &#8216;hopeful&#8217; of uniting Ronaldo and Messi in historic Inter Miami transfer amid Al-Nassr strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Beckham is looking to unite Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi at Inter Miami in a historic summer transfer, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/cristiano-ronaldo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ronaldo<\/a>\u00a0left Manchester United at the end of 2022 following a heated fallout with Erik ten Hag as he had his contract mutually terminated after burning bridges at the Premier League giants in an infamous interview with Piers Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old snubbed interest from Europe to join Saudi Pro League side Al Nassr at the start of 2023.\u00a0 Since then, he\u2019s grabbed 117 goals in 133 appearances for the Middle East outfit.<\/p>\n<p>There were rumours over the summer that Ronaldo was unhappy\u00a0at Al Nassr after they finished third in the Saudi Pro League and lost in the AFC Champions League semi-finals, with a move to a Club World Cup team touted.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ronaldo signed a new contract until June 2027 at the Saudi club with claims that his deal will\u00a0worth a minimum \u00a3492m over the two-year duration.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, the Portugal international has been on strike, missing their last two matches, with speculation Ronaldo is unhappy at Saudi Arabia\u2019s Private Investment Fund (PIF) who fund the club.<\/p>\n<p>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-city-title-race-liverpool-szoboszlai-haaland-bluey-arsenal-16-conclusions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">16 Conclusions from Liverpool 1-2 Man City: Chaos, Bluey, VAR, Guehi, Szoboszlai, Haaland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Al-Nassr\u2019s arch-rivals Al-Hilal have been able to sign Al-Ittihad superstar Karim Benzema over the winter, while\u00a021-year-old Iraqi centre-back Hayer Abdulkareem and Saudi centre-forward Abdullah Al-Hamdan are Ronaldo\u2019s side\u2019s only incomings.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fichajes.net\/noticias\/bombazo-inter-miami-quiere-cristiano-ronaldo-20260208.html\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish website Fichajes now insists that<\/a> Inter Miami \u2018wants to continue growing and making a name for itself on the world stage\u2019 by bringing Ronaldo to Major League Soccer.<\/p>\n<p>It would mean that Ronaldo and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/lionel-messi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Messi<\/a> would be \u2018together for the first time\u2019 and \u2018would be a historic image\u2019 for fans of football around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United and Real Madrid legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/david-beckham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beckham<\/a> is \u2018the mastermind behind the dream\u2019 and \u2018remains hopeful and is not closing any doors\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/mo-salah-passenger-managers-son-mailbox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Passenger\u2019 Liverpool man playing like \u2018u-10s manager\u2019s son\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report adds: \u2018He has already convinced\u00a0Lionel Messi\u00a0, and he knows that the arrival of\u00a0Cristiano Ronaldo\u00a0would be the perfect finishing touch to his project in the United States.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>One of the most respected voices in the Saudi Pro League, Walid Al-Faraj, insists Ronaldo \u201cneeds to know his place\u201d after the former Man Utd and Real Madrid forward reportedly refused to play in their last two matches.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Faraj said: \u201cCristiano Ronaldo needs to know his place. This country is called Saudi Arabia, not Ronaldo\u2019s Arabia. He confuses being an ambassador with being a manager. He is an employee who earns a huge salary and must respect the league or leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-neville-makes-claim-liverpool-man-city-sends-message-arsenal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neville makes huge Man Utd claim after Liverpool lose to Man City; sends message to Arsenal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Beckham is looking to unite Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi at Inter Miami in a historic summer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11014,15257,72475,1660,71820,123,125,124,115,12441,2062],"class_list":{"0":"post-149943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-cristiano-ronaldo","9":"tag-david-beckham","10":"tag-home-page","11":"tag-lionel-messi","12":"tag-manchester-united","13":"tag-miami","14":"tag-miami-headlines","15":"tag-miami-news","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-real-madrid","18":"tag-soccer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}