LONDON – Cristiano Ronaldo has received an offer to leave Real Madrid andjoin Italian champions Juventus, a source close to the player told Reuterson Wednesday.

Ronaldo, who joined Real from Manchester United in 2008 for a then worldrecord 80 million pounds ($105.65 million), is the Spanish club’s all-timetop scorer with 451 goals in all competitions and has won two La Ligatitles and four Champions League trophies with them.

Despite the glut of silverware, however, the five-times world player of theyear has had frequent fallouts with Real and has declared on severaloccasions that he wants to leave the club.

Moments after lifting a third consecutive Champions League trophy bybeating Liverpool 3-1 in the final on May 26, Ronaldo appeared to suggesthe had already decided to leave Real, telling a television reporter on thepitch at Kiev’s NSC Olympic Stadium: “It was beautiful to play for RealMadrid.”

Ronaldo, 33, appeared to backtrack on that statement during Real’scelebration parade through the Spanish capital the next day, when he told amass of supporters: “See you next season.”

The Portugal forward was reported to be on the verge of leaving last Juneafter a news story appeared in Portuguese newspaper Record declaring he wasunhappy with the club.

He also caused a stir in 2012 when he declared in a post-match interviewafter a game with Granada: “I’m sad and the club know why.”

Spanish newspaper Marca suggested on Wednesday that Ronaldo is unhappy atReal because they are searching for a successor to him and presidentFlorentino Perez has publicly courted Paris St Germain forward Neymar,urging the Brazilian last year to come to Madrid if he wants to win theprestigious Ballon d’Or award.