Al Nassr boss Rudi Garcia has spoken of his excitement at the idea of bringing Cristiano Ronaldo to the club.
The Portugal forward, whose team bowed out of the World Cup at the quarterfinal stage, left Manchester United by mutual consent.
Ronaldo is also wanted by Al Hilal in Saudi Arabia, with the money involved said to be eye watering sums.
“I think that any coach would be delighted to train a great star like Cristiano and already in November 2021 I was very close to going to United,” Garcia told an interview with Diario AS.
“They chose Ralf Rangnick, but I met twice with John Murtough and Darren Fletcher [United’s director of football and technical director respectively].
“I came very close to coaching this club and was very motivated to go, who wouldn’t be motivated to coach United? Any coach. United’s simple interest has allowed me to be sure of my ambitions in the future.
“I have always thought that the great players are the easiest to manage because they are very intelligent, I verified this with Francesco Totti at Roma.”
