Gary Neville admits he’d ‘love Cristiano Ronaldo to stay in the Premier League’

Gary Neville would ‘love’ to see Cristiano Ronaldo join another Premier League club following his dramatic exit from Manchester United.

Ronaldo and United agreed to terminate his contract by mutual consent after the Portuguese star took aim at the club and manager Erik ten Hag in a bombshell interview with Piers Morgan.

The 37-year-old had found himself regularly warming the bench this season after Ten Hag came in as manager and he refused to come on as a substitute during a home game with Tottenham before storming down the Old Trafford tunnel.

Neville believes Ronaldo still has much to offer at the highest level of football even aged 37

After Ronaldo left the World Cup stage in tears after Portugal’s surprise defeat to Morocco in the quarter-finals, he is searching for a new club.

There has been interest from Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr and the Qatar Stars League but his former United team-mate Neville would like to see Ronaldo playing at a higher level.

He told Sky Sports: ‘I hope he finds happiness and a club that will get him into the team and getting him scoring the goals that we know he can score – he’ll score 20 goals in 30 matches wherever he plays, maybe 20 goals in 20 matches, knowing him.

‘But how does he see the end of his career playing out? Does he see the end of his career playing out in lesser leagues, or does he see it playing out at one of the major leagues and continuing at that level?

Cristiano Ronaldo exited the World Cup stage in tears after Portugal were beaten by Morocco

Portugal coach Fernando Santos made the decision to drop Ronaldo for the last-16 game 

‘I hope it’s the latter, and I hope he can find a club in then major leagues, even the Premier League.

‘I’d love him to stay in the Premier League at a club that can have him up front and we can watch him every week because that’s what we want to…