Cristiano Ronaldo: I’d ‘score the same’ in Premier League as Saudi

Cristiano Ronaldo has claimed that he would score the same number of goals in the Premier League as he is doing in the Saudi Pro League. The Portuguese veteran has scored eight goals in seven matches for Al Nassr in the ongoing Saudi Pro League.

Meanwhile, Ronaldo had mutually parted ways with Man United in November 2022 after he gave a controversial interview with Piers Morgan in which he criticised the club and former manager Erik Ten Hag.

The Al Nassr skipper has finished as the top scorer in the Saudi Pro League in the last two seasons.

“Year by year, I score more,” Ronaldo said in an interview with Piers Morgan.

“Even in a bad year [when Al Nassr finished trophyless], I scored 25 goals. If I played the Premier League, now in a top team, I will score the same! If I had a good team, at 40 years old, I will score the same.”

Ronaldo said the Saudi Pro League does not get the respect it deserves.

“I don’t need to speak because they can say whatever they want, but the numbers, they don’t lie,” the former Real Madrid star said.

“They say things about the Saudi league, but they have never been here, they never play here. They don’t know what [it is like] to run in 40 degrees [celsius]. They don’t know. And I still continue and I repeat the Saudi League, it’s much, much better than Portuguese League, of course.

“French league is only PSG. Premier League is good, of course, is the number one.”

Ronaldo added that it was easier for him to score in Spain’s LaLiga than in the Saudi Pro League. “Ask the other players if the league is good, don’t ask to me because it’s easy to ask me because I’m always saying that ‘Ah, Cristiano saying that because he plays in Saudi’,” he said.

“No, no. I’ve played everywhere. Everywhere. For me, it’s more easy to score in Spain, than to score in Saudi.” Ronaldo, who has scored 952 goals in his career and holds the men’s world record for most international goals, says that a key to his success is that he is always learning.

“You learn with experience, with time,” he said. “What makes a difference is that you can improve all the time, even at my age. This is the big mistake of the players, they think they know everything and they don’t learn anymore. Players think they know everything and after a certain age they slow down. I keep learning. I have scored more goals after 30.”

Ronaldo has scored more than 950 goals in his glorious career and his next target is to become the first player to score 1000 goals.