Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has insisted that the club are in no rush to sign a new contract deal with Cristiano Ronaldo. The statement follows reports that Ronaldo’s agency wants United to sit down for contract talks soon, however Ferguson is happy with Ronaldo’s current contract.

“I don’t know what other clubs pay their players, but he [Ronaldo] is very well paid by us and quite rightly. He deserves to be paid tremendous amounts,”

“All the players that are well paid deserve it because they are great players but, at the moment, he has 3½ years left on his contract and we are happy with that.”

Ferguson also stated that Ronaldo’s agent Jorge Mendes wasn’t in the North West last week for talks with the club:

“There is nothing I can tell you about that because I didn’t even know Jorge was over,”

“He comes across quite a lot to see Anderson, Nani, Ronaldo and Manucho to sort out a lot of things – maybe their living accommodation or commercial issues. It could be a lot of things.”

Source: SkySports