Cristiano Ronaldo deserves to be considered a great legend of world football. The Portuguese player has had an illustrious career, with countless individual and team titles.

In particular, Ronaldo’s most successful playing time at the club level was the period with Manchester United and Real Madrid. However, he continued to bring success in his twilight years when playing for Juventus and now Al Nassr.

Besides his talent and tireless training efforts, Ronaldo has rarely encountered serious injuries in his career. That is what has brought Cristiano Ronaldo to the ranks of the greatest names in football history.

So who is worthy of becoming Cristiano Ronaldo’s successor? In fact, the Portuguese superstar once answered this issue with Daily Star, in an interview in 2017. There are people who have really become famous, but there are also many players who have not been able to develop. developed as expected.

Kylian Mbappe

Since 2017, Kylian Mbappe’s skills have attracted great attention from experts. He was a key factor in Monaco’s Ligue 1 championship in 2017, even though he was only 19 years old at the time.

Ronaldo’s predictions about Mbappe have come true, as the French striker is one of the best players in the world today at the age of 25. He has a World Cup title, scoring a hat-trick in the match. final with Argentina and countless other miracles. If he moves to Real Madrid in the summer of 2024, Mbappe will go even further on the path to becoming a legend.

As a former teammate at Real Madrid, Ronaldo clearly understands Marco Asensio’s talent in the Royal team shirt. However, this is one of the wrong predictions of the Portuguese superstar.

After the initial period of sublimation, Marco Asensio gradually slowed down for different reasons. He lost his position at Real Madrid and has now moved to play for PSG. The Spanish midfielder is still struggling to find his footing in the French team.

Eden Hazard

Once considered a player who could approach the level of Ronaldo and Messi, Eden Hazard’s career suddenly slowed down due to various injuries when moving to Real Madrid.

The Belgian midfielder gradually lost himself at the Bernabeu, and just officially announced his retirement in October 2023.

Neymar

Also a talented player and predicted by Ronaldo to be on par with himself and Messi, Neymar has never been able to reach the same level as his two seniors. Despite his talent, Neymar often does not focus on football, and often has parties and many hobbies off the field.

After his time with PSG, Neyamr moved to Saudi Arabia to play. However, he just suffered a knee injury and had to miss a long time.

Ousmane Dembele

Another talent whose career was ruined by injury. Dembele has had a promising start in Dortmund, and is being watched by many big teams.

However, the time spent with more injuries than playing at Barcelona has permanently prevented Dembele from becoming a major superstar in world football.

Marcus Rashford

Another wrong prediction from Ronaldo. In 2017, Rashford was one of Carrington’s promising talents, and was planned to become a star for MU in the coming years.

However, Rashford seems to be just a young talent who will never grow up. Currently, he is also not performing as expected at MU, and was involved in disagreements with Ronaldo himself when the Portuguese player played here in the 2021/22 and 2022/23 seasons.