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Cristiano Ronaldo made the cryptic comment that Al-Nassr is leaving with.

The 40-year-old, who signed for the Saudi Arabian club in January 2023, will leave the contract next month.

Ronaldo’s 800th career club goal came in as Al Nassr wrapped up their season with a 3-2 defeat by Al-Fateh to finish third in the Saudi Pro League.

Ronaldo declared, “This chapter is over,” on his X account following the defeat. The narrative ? Still being written. grateful to everyone.

What does the legendary Manchester United player’s future hold, and could he participate in the Club World Cup in the coming months?

Following Al-Nassr’s failure to qualify, Fifa president Gianni Infantino suggested Ronaldo join a team playing at the Club World Cup last week.

Infantino told YouTuber and streamer IShowSpeed that “Ronaldo might play for one of the teams at the Club World Cup as well.”

Who knows, who knows, because there are discussions with some clubs about hiring Ronaldo for the Club World Cup.

Fifa is in great need of this summer’s Club World Cup, which is taking place in the United States.

It has 32 teams and is the first time it has taken place in the summer.

Only a few professional football teams have the funds to pay Ronaldo’s wages.

He signed for Al-Nassr in 2023, making him the highest-paid player in the history of football, reportedly for a £177 million-a-year deal.

Before reevaluating his future, Ronaldo may be willing to agree to a short-term deal with a club to participate in the Club World Cup.

A Brazilian club had made an offer to sign Ronaldo, according to the Spanish newspaper Marca last week.

The forward has been linked to Botafogo, one of the four Brazilian clubs competing at the tournament.

Manager Renato Paiva responded to a question about potential signing Ronaldo, saying: “Christmas is only in December. You can’t, however, reject a star like that if he arrived.

I’m just responding to the question, not saying that I know anything. However, as I previously stated, coaches always strive for perfection. Even at his old age, Ronaldo still has a goal-scoring machine. He would make a good team for creating chance after chance, according to him.

The transfer window for England opens on June 16 and ends on September 1.

The 32 clubs competing in the Club World Cup have a 10-day window open from June 1 through June 10th.

The tournament, which will take place in 12 American stadiums, will begin on June 15.

Overall, 63 matches will be played, with the MetLife Stadium’s 13-July final behind.

Cristiano Ronaldo made the cryptic comment that Al-Nassr is leaving with.

The 40-year-old, who signed for the Saudi Arabian club in January 2023, will leave the contract next month.

Ronaldo’s 800th career club goal came in as Al Nassr wrapped up their season with a 3-2 defeat by Al-Fateh to finish third in the Saudi Pro League.

Ronaldo declared, “This chapter is over,” on his X account following the defeat. The narrative ? Still being written. grateful to everyone.

What does the legendary Manchester United player’s future hold, and could he participate in the Club World Cup in the coming months?

Following Al-Nassr’s failure to qualify, Fifa president Gianni Infantino suggested Ronaldo join a team playing at the Club World Cup last week.

Infantino told YouTuber and streamer IShowSpeed that “Ronaldo might play for one of the teams at the Club World Cup as well.”

Who knows, who knows, because there are discussions with some clubs about hiring Ronaldo for the Club World Cup.

Fifa is in great need of this summer’s Club World Cup, which is taking place in the United States.

It has 32 teams and is the first time it has taken place in the summer.

Only a few professional football teams have the funds to pay Ronaldo’s wages.

He signed for Al-Nassr in 2023, making him the highest-paid player in the history of football, reportedly for a £177 million-a-year deal.

Before reevaluating his future, Ronaldo may be willing to agree to a short-term deal with a club to participate in the Club World Cup.

A Brazilian club had made an offer to sign Ronaldo, according to the Spanish newspaper Marca last week.

The forward has been linked to Botafogo, one of the four Brazilian clubs competing at the tournament.

Manager Renato Paiva responded to a question about potential signing Ronaldo, saying: “Christmas is only in December. You can’t, however, reject a star like that if he arrived.

I’m just responding to the question, not saying that I know anything. However, as I previously stated, coaches always strive for perfection. Even at his old age, Ronaldo still has a goal-scoring machine. He would make a good team for creating chance after chance, according to him.

The transfer window for England opens on June 16 and ends on September 1.

The 32 clubs competing in the Club World Cup have a 10-day window open from June 1 through June 10th.

The tournament, which will take place in 12 American stadiums, will begin on June 15.

Overall, 63 matches will be played, with the MetLife Stadium’s 13-July final behind.

Scotland vs. Austria in Women’s Nations League Group A1.

Location: Hampden Park, Glasgow Date: Friday, May 30 Kick-off: 19:35 BST

Sam Kerr, a midfielder for Bayern Munich, was recalled from the Scotland squad for the Women’s Nations League matches against Austria and the Netherlands, with Kirsty Smith and Mia McAulay drafted in.

Smith, who has been released by West Ham United, was originally called into the squad by new national head coach Melissa Andreatta, but the 31-year-old will now have a chance to add to her 62 caps.

McAulay scored the opening goal at Hampden Park on Sunday, coming off a starring role in Rangers’ 3-0 victory over Glasgow City in the Scottish Cup final.

Scotland will need a two-goal victory to avoid being relegated from League A on Friday, a game that will be broadcast live on BBC Alba.

Next Tuesday, Andreatta will travel to Tilburg with her team in person, live on the BBC Scotland TV channel, to face the Dutch.

Jenna Clark (Liverpool), Rachel Corsie (unattached), Nicola Docherty (Rangers), Sophie Howard (Leicester City), Emma Lawton (Celtic), Rachel McLauchlan (Rangers), Amy Muir (Glasgow City), and Kirsty Smith (unattached) are the defenders.

Chelsea Cornet (Rangers), Erin Cuthbert (Chelsea), Lauren Davidson (Brann), Freya Gregory (Newcastle United), Brogan Hay (Rangers), Kirsty MacLean (Rangers), Amy Rodgers (Bristol City), Emma Watson (Manchester United), and Caroline Weir (Real Madrid).

“It’ll be a long road, but I’m ready to work hard,” said Great Britain long jumper Jazmin Sawyers when sharing the painful news of her Achilles rupture last April.

The injury, which ruled her out of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, came just over a year after her best moment in the sport to-date.

Her ecstatic celebrations produced memorable images as she won the 2023 European Indoor title, jumping a UK indoor record of 7.00 metres in the process.

The 31-year-old finally competed again this month after a 20-month absence, leaping to 6.53m at the Loughborough International Athletics Meeting.

“It felt so, so good. I was more nervous than I can remember being for a competition,” Sawyers told BBC Radio Stoke.

“My heart rate was high all day. Since the minute I woke up, I wasn’t able to be calm.

“But, just to get back and still feel like myself, to be jumping a kind of distance that I have opened with in any other normal season, I’m so pleased,” she added.

Sawyers, a finalist at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, did make it to a third Olympics, last summer – but as a television commentator for the BBC.

While her enthusiasm and expertise alongside regular contributors like Steve Backley and Jeanette Kwakye won high praise, it was certainly not her first-choice role.

Earlier this month, Sawyers said she was back to full speed and strength in the last of a series of videos that she nicknamed “The Achilles Diaries”.

On Saturday, she rubber-stamped her return, improving her 2025 best to 6.66 in Weinheim in Germany.

The qualifying standard for September’s World Athletics Championships in Tokyo is 6.86m, but she could still be considered for a place with 6.75m if she is high enough in the world rankings.

“At the minute, I’m unranked because I haven’t done five competitions in the last year, so I’ve just got to build that back up and hopefully make my way back to my best,” she said.

Her injury left her unable to defend her European Indoor title in Apeldoorn in March, or contest the World Indoors in Nanjing later that month, but Sawyers is encouraged by those who competed in her absence.

“We’re having a real moment with long jump. There was a year or two where we didn’t have multiple athletes fighting for spots,” she said.

“But we’re back in long jump business and so many of the women are brilliant athletes. Molly Palmer is due a huge jump, the same with Alice Hopkins.”

Palmer beat Sawyers to gain victory in Loughborough, while Hopkins made her major championship debut in Apeldoorn.

“We’re going to keep seeing these athletes jump further,” Sawyers added.

Tom Hartley is England’s forgotten man of 2024.

The leading wicket-taker on the tour of India in the winter, he took nine wickets in the all-timer of a win in Hyderabad but has not featured since England returned home.

When Ben Stokes’ side were playing their Tests in Pakistan in October, the left-arm spinner was listening to Test Match Special while working a shift at the family garden centre.

Hartley, 26, could make his England return this week in the one-day international series against West Indies, which starts on Thursday at Edgbaston.

He has had a decent start to the season with Lancashire but has still been putting in the hours amid the perennials.

“It is a 5am or 5:30am wake-up, walk the dogs, water the plants and then set up jobs for the staff, supervise and help where I can,” Hartley says.

“They clock off at 5pm and I get organised for the next day.

“It probably is too much and I feel myself getting tired at times.

“If my on-field wasn’t going well I would have to change things but I am doing all right on the field at the minute so it must be helping me.”

The garden centre – Hartley’s Nurseries to give it its proper name – is 10 miles or so outside of Liverpool and is a sixth-generation family business.

Hartley’s father, Bill, won 4x400m gold at the European Championship in 1974 and later took on the company. The plan remains that Tom will do the same one day.

“My dad helps me out a bit but you have got to learn on your feet,” he says.

“It is a bit of trial and error. Some prefer a lot of sunlight, some prefer the shade.

“It settles me on the field knowing there is something for me there after cricket and it takes the pressure off a little bit.

Hartley holds no hard feelings over his England omissions since India.

After the series concluded in Dharamsala coach Brendon McCullum, the one to call him last week to inform him of his recall, said “you would have taken that at the start of the winter”.

Lancashire’s Evertonian, who was originally picked because of his similarities to India’s tall left-arm spinner Axar Patel and was smashed by Yashasvi Jaiswal in an opening nine-over spell which cost 63, is inclined to agree.

“It beat any of my expectations,” he says.

“To say you have a Test five-for and debut it is something you can always fall back on.”

On returning to the UK, Hartley had his appearances for Lancashire in the County Championship limited by the arrival of Australia spinner Nathan Lyon.

This winter his appearances were limited by a broken hand – an injury picked up on England Lions’ tour of Australia.

He turned out for his club side Ormskirk in the Liverpool and District league to keep his arm turning over at the start of the season, as he had done at the end of the 2024 campaign.

“I came away tired in the face from laughing so much,” he says.

Time out of the side has also provided moments for reflection.

Under Stokes and McCullum, England are aggressive with the bat but also with the ball – where the message is always to hunt wickets.

Hartley does not disagree with the mindset but is keen to remember his own strengths.

“Sometimes you look at why you are not being picked and the people who are being picked and think ‘if I do that maybe that will help me get back in’,” he says.

“Personally I have to think ‘that is not me’.

“I hate going for runs, especially in white-ball. If I can go at six an over or less I will naturally pick up one or two wickets.”

Hartley’s return also comes at an interesting time for him personally and for England’s limited-overs cricket.

They have lost 10 of 11 white-ball matches this year and Harry Brook has been appointed captain after the dismal Champions Trophy exit.

In the weeks since, England’s supremo Rob Key has flagged the importance of England improving their batting against and bowling of left-arm spin if they are to return to the summit of the white-ball game.

The result has been Hartley’s recall to England’s ODI squad and Dawson’s return for the T20 series against West Indies that follows.

“You look at a lot of the top sides around the world and they do have a left-arm spinner,” Hartley says. “For whatever reason it seems to work.”

At 35, Dawson’s recall looks to be one with an eye on next year’s T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka.

With Hartley, nine years Dawson’s junior, in the ODI squad, he has the first chance to stake a claim for a place at the 50-over World Cup in 2027.

“Bumble [the former England coach and iconic commentator David Lloyd] came up to me the other day and said you don’t know anything about spin bowling until you are 27,” Hartley says.

“You don’t realise you are learning but you are, always.

“It comes up in certain situations and then pops into your head what you have to do.

“You end up having more options, especially when it is not spinning as much – come over, go wide, use the footholes more, change the fields.

“You need that experience and game knowledge.”