Mendes, nonetheless, doesn’t appear to harbour any grudges and continued to reward his former employer. He added: “It’s a must to see what he managed to do. Soccer is objectives! There’s a variety of energy there and a variety of work too,” Mendes added. “He is an instance for younger individuals and he is executed all the things a fantastic skilled must do… as a result of he is the very best of all of them!
“However it’s also true that he was a virtuous participant when he was younger: you had been speaking about Ronaldinho Gaucho and [Lionel] Messi, however when he was younger, Cristiano was additionally virtuous! And robust within the ‘one on one’, and explosive!
“Cristiano has changed into a machine! Many individuals by no means actually thought of that progress course of that led him, in actual fact, to be the very best in historical past. And for me, he’ll at all times be the very best in historical past.”