The Spanish newspaper "MARCA", which is close to Real Madrid, confirmed today, Saturday, that the Royal has refused to return his former star Cristiano Ronaldo to the team next summer.

This came days after the Portuguese star's agent, Jorge Mendes, offered Ronaldo to return to the Santiago Bernabeu, something that everyone, including Real coach Zinedine Zidane, interacted with.

The newspaper said that Real Madrid categorically rejected Mendes’s offer, due to the huge salary of Ronaldo, 36, which would represent a heavy burden on the royal treasury, who is heading towards strong deals with young rising stars, most notably Erling Haaland, Borussia Dortmund's top scorer, and Kylian Mbappe, the top scorer. French Paris Saint-Germain.

"Mr. passes is not"

On the other hand, Real Madrid praised the skills of its French coach Zidane, who accustomed football fans to his charming touches and accurate passes when he was a player.

👔↔️⚽ Mr. passes ... is not!

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- Real Madrid CF (@realmadridarab) March 25, 2021

Real Madrid published on its official Twitter account a video clip of Zidane's perfect and distinctive passes to the royal players during training, commenting on "Mr. Non-passes."

👔 Here is Mister!

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- Real Madrid CF (@realmadridarab) March 26, 2021

The video shows the French training his players to shoot with the foot with a single touch on the bird in high balls, in the manner of Zidane's "legendary" goal he scored with Real Madrid in the Champions League final against Bayern Leverkusen in 2002.

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The fans of Real Madrid also sang Zidane's passes, some of them expressed their longing for Zidane's days and his charming passes, while others saw that the French coach could still practice football and play because of his distinctive touches, as one of them described him by saying, "Zidane is still charming." .

I say by virtue of injuries in # Real_Madrid! # Zidane is fit in football, comes down and saves his team and enjoys us 😍✨ https://t.co/fFmZVDvlpa

- Hammoud Al-Brahim (@ hamuod87) March 26, 2021

Zizou passes My


Lord, we

missed

Zizou https://t.co/a8YympvQBH

- MatouQista (@ a_almatouq94) March 25, 2021