Ronaldo: Scoring in La Liga Is Easier Than in the Saudi Pro League; I Could Still Score 25 Goals If I Return to the Premier League Now

Today, the second part of Piers Morgan’s exclusive interview with Cristiano Ronaldo was released, where the two discussed Ronaldo’s "goalscoring"—

But scoring goals is the ultimate response to any criticism, isn’t it? I mean, if you’re a striker and you maintain your current goalscoring form, like I said, they can look at the Saudi league and say it’s not as good as the Premier League. But actually, I mean, look at Portugal. Look at your record with the Portuguese national team. Recently, your goalscoring numbers have been incredible.

Excuses. Yeah, excuses. That’s the easiest explanation. Everything is excuses, excuses, excuses. Year after year, my goalscoring numbers keep increasing. Even in a bad season, I scored 25 goals. If I were playing for a top team in the Premier League now, my goal tally would be the same.

Or look at you last season, a full season—it’s simple. If you have a decent team, even if the players are 14 years old, my goal numbers would still be the same.

You scored 18 Premier League goals last season, a full season. I think that’s one less than Harry Kane, or the same as Harry Kane, plus 6 Champions League goals. Well, any team would…

They don’t need to talk because they can say whatever they want. But they don’t like the stats. For example, when they talk about the Saudi league—they’ve never been here, they’ve never played here, they don’t know how to deal with 40-degree heat, uh… they really don’t understand.

I’ll keep repeating it: the Saudi Pro League, the Saudi Pro League—it’s much better than the Portuguese league. Of course, Ligue 1 only has Paris Saint-Germain.

The Premier League is good. Definitely number one, but I think they should include the Saudi league’s stats.

They should count the goals, like for the Ballon d’Or. Why? Why don’t they include the Saudi league? Look, how many top players are there in our league?

Ask other players if this league is good, don’t ask me.

Because it’s easy to ask me, because they’ll say Ronaldo says that because he plays in Saudi Arabia. No, listen, I’ve played everywhere. For me, scoring in Spain is much easier than scoring in Saudi Arabia.