Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane has pleaded with
his top scorer Cristiano Ronaldo not to leave the club.
Ronaldo
is reportedly furious over a tax probe into the off shore accounts dealing with
his image rights, and has reportedly vowed to leave Spain.
"I
am leaving Real Madrid," Marca claim Ronaldo told his Portuguese
colleagues. "I have made a decision. There is no turning back," the
daily sports paper reported.
The
Portuguese is presently in Russia where his country is competing at the FIFA
Confederation Cup.
According
to Marca when Zidane heard Ronaldo had sworn to quit he broke off from his
family holiday and called his No7 to tell him Madrid "needed him for his
goals, and also his winning mentality".
Marca
also reported that club captain Sergio Ramos had called Ronaldo to ask him to
stay.
In
just 265 games for Real Madrid Ronaldo has scored 285 goals, winning three
Champions League finals in four seasons.
The
32-year-old Ronaldo is the latest football superstar to come under scrutiny for
tax evasion after Lionel Messi was handed a 2.1-million-euro ($2.3 million)
fine last year for avoiding paying taxes on part of the income he earned from
image rights via companies in Belize, Britain, Switzerland and Uruguay.
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