Cristiano Ronaldo: When Al-Nassr Star Snubbed Ferguson and Picked Mourinho As His Best Manager

• Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest of all time to play football
• The Portuguese played for some of the best clubs and best managers in the world
• He currently pays for Al-Nassr in the Saudi Pro League after his last stint in Europe at Manchester United

The history of football will not be complete if the little boy from Madeira, Portugal, Cristiano Ronaldo, is not mentioned as one of the greatest of all time.

Alongside Lionel Messi, for nearly two decades, they have stayed at the top of their game and rewrote a lot of football history and won a combined 12 Ballon d'Or.

Ronaldo has played for the biggest clubs in England, Italy and Spain - Manchester United, Juventus and Real Madrid, having also played for one of the best clubs in his hometown of Portugal, Sporting Lisbon.

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He has played under some of the greatest football managers of all time, including Jose Mourinho, whom he could work with again after Corriere dello Sport reported that the Special One has received an offer worth £60m per year to move to Saudi Arabia.

Ronaldo picks Mourinho over Ferguson

According to Independent, Ronaldo and former United boss Sir Alex Ferguson share a father-son relationship. The Scot brought him to the limelight when he signed him to England.

He scored 118 goals and 63 assists in 292 games under Ferguson during the 38-year-old's first spell in Manchester, but he opted for his compatriot, Mourinho, as the best he had ever worked with, as reported by Sportskeeda.

''I would put him at the top, I always say that. I have played for so many great coaches, but Jose Mourinho was a big thinker analytically, he went into everything in great detail,'' he said.

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The two worked together in Madrid and Ronaldo produced staggering numbers. He played 164 games and scored 168 goals and 49 assists.

Mourinho stopped racist Roma fans

Sports Brief reported that Mourinho intervened with Roma fans after they racially abused his former Inter Milan player and Sampdoria boss Dejan Stankovic.

Stankovic reacted to the referee sending off one of his players, which prompted racial slurs towards him. Mourinho's intervention mitigated the €8,000 fine handed out to the club.