Cristiano Ronaldo's future at Real Madrid is unclear after contract row… but does the superstar really want to leave next summer?

When Spanish television this week claimed that Cristiano Ronaldo had told Real Madrid he wants to leave the club on June 30 of 2018 after nine trophy-laden years, the story threw up more questions than answers.
Could he walk away? Where would he go? Is really so desperate to leave?
Sportsmail takes a look at how things could pan out.

What would the club's response be to Ronaldo demanding to leave in the summer?
Florentino Perez would probably wave a copy of his contract under his nose.
If Ronaldo wanted to be able to skip off into the sunset without a care, he probably shouldn't have signed a new deal until 2021 last year... the one with the £1bn buy-out clause.
It makes it impossible for him to force his way out as Neymar did last summer.

Why does it seem Ronaldo is angling for a new contract when he still has three years left on his existing one?
He'll be 36 when his current deal expires so the push for a new deal is unlikely to be about extending its length. This is about money not time.
It feels like a hangover from last summer when bad feeling over his tax case led Portuguese paper A Bola to suggest – with a well-sourced story – that his intention was not to play in Spain again.

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