Cristiano Ronaldo text me listing every single trophy he’d won after I said he wasn’t in my top 10 players of all time

A FORMER Real Madrid guardant claimed Cristiano Ronaldo messaged him with a database of his trophies aft snubbing the Portuguese icon from his all-time apical ten.

Antonio Cassano seems to person a vendetta against 1 of the top footballers ever.

And successful a daze verdict, helium snubbed the five-time Ballon d'Or victor from his database - down the likes of Lionel Messi, Pele, Diego Maradona, Johan Cruyff and the 'original' Brazilian Ronaldo.

But those nationalist comments did not spell down good with the erstwhile Manchester United forward, 39, who personally reached retired to Cassano to acceptable the grounds straight.

Speaking connected the BSMT podcast, Cassano, 42, said: "I said Ronaldo is No1, the Brazilian.

"Cristiano Ronaldo doesn’t marque my apical five, oregon adjacent apical ten, due to the fact that for maine the prime of a subordinate is different thing.

"Next thing, I decorativeness the enactment I was doing and I get a substance connection from a +34 number, that’s Spain. It’s a database of each the trophies, goals and statistics.

"Then helium sends maine a dependable note, telling me, ‘You disrespected me, don’t bash thing similar that again. You lone scored 150 goals, you lone won 4 trophies.’ Perfect.

“So I reply him. I say, ‘Dear Cristiano, perceive to me. You deliberation I disrespected you, I conscionable don’t similar you arsenic a player. What’s the problem?’

“He went to the occupation of messaging me, imagine.”

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Cassano - who claimed helium could person been arsenic bully arsenic Lionel Messi oregon Neymar - came done astatine Bari earlier playing for immoderate of Europe's apical clubs including Roma, Real Madrid, AC Milan and Inter Milan.

The guardant besides racked up 39 caps for Italy and 2 league titles - a LaLiga with Los Blancos and the 2010-11 Serie A during his clip astatine AC Milan.

But contempt his highly-controversial and mediocre career compared to the illustrious achievements of Ronaldo, that has not stopped him from launching aggregate idiosyncratic assaults connected the Al-Nassr man.

Cassano besides blasted CR7 arsenic "selfish" and lone reasoning astir "goals and records".

He past likened Ronaldo to Filippo Inzaghi and David Trezeguet for simply being a bully goalscorer - not a "genius" footballer.

In September 2022, Cassano told the Portugal fable to "do yourself a favour" and "stop" his vocation by retiring.

And 2 years later, helium piled successful again by insisting Ronaldo "doesn't cognize however to play football".

He added: "He could people 3,000 goals, I don't springiness a f***.

"[Gonzalo] Higuain, [Sergio] Aguero, [Karim] Benzema, [Robert] Lewandowski, [Zlatan] Ibrahimovic and [Luis] Suarez knew however to link-up with the team.

"They knew however to bash a batch of things, dissimilar Ronaldo whose lone nonsubjective has ever been to score."

However, Ronaldo is not the lone people Cassano has taken purpose at.

He besides suggested Erling Haaland was simply a extremity machine who does not recognize however to play the beauteous game, either.

But his comments astir compatriot Jorginho prompted an awkward brushwood connected the beach betwixt the pair.

That is due to the fact that Cassano publically laughed disconnected morganatic suggestions that Jorginho was successful the moving for the Ballon d'Or aft winning the Champions League and Euros successful 2021.