Breaking news: Cristiano Ronaldo offered Premier League switch as he sends Man Utd message Manchester United superstar forward Cristiano Ronaldo has been offered an unlikely Premier League switch after sending a message to former boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

Manchester United favourite Cristiano 

Ronaldo has been offered an unlikely 

Premier league switch amid the Old Trafford

 outfit's struggles this season.

It comes after the Portugal international

 sent a message to former boss Ole Gunnar 

Solksjaer after he was replaced by interim

 boss Ralf Rangnick.

Ronaldo's goalscoring exploits have been

 a rare positive for United this season and 

he has now managed something his former

 boss could not do in a United shirt.

And on his 80th birthday, club legend Sir 

Alex Ferguson's no-nonsense stance on the 

Cristiano Ronaldo  vs Lionel Messi rivalry 

has come to light.

Sir Alex's rivalry stance

Manchester United icon Sir Alex Ferguson

 has celebrated his 80th birthday – and very 

few people have had the impact on Cristiano

 Ronaldo's career the Scottish icon has.

Sir Alex signed Ronaldo as a young prospect

 from Sporting Lisbon in 2003 and has always 

held the Portuguese forward in high regard.

Ronaldo has often been compared to rival 

Lionel Messi with fans across the world 

debating which is the better player – and 

Sir Alex Ferguson has a very simple answer.

While Ferguson believes you "can't dispute

" the opinion that Messi is the world's best 

player, in 2015 he explained exactly why 

he thinks Ronaldo is actually better than 

his counterpart.

Ronaldo sends message

Cristiano Ronaldo has sent Manchester United

 a message as he overtook former boss 

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in the club's 

goalscoring charts.

Some fans had questioned whether Ronaldo

 was part of the problem under his old 

boss but he has responded emphatically 

with his goalscoring exploits this season.

He's now netted 14 times in 21 appearances

 and scored once again against Burnley on 

Thursday night.

And Ronaldo has now managed something 

Solksjaer couldn't for United as he scored 

his 92nd goal for the club – one more 

than the previous Red Devils boss.

Ronaldo offered Premier 

League switch

United star Cristiano Ronaldo has been 

offered an unlikely Premier League switch

 – by Wolves boss Bruno Lage.

Ronaldo's fellow Portuguese has suggested 

he would more than happily take his countryman

 at the Molineux should he ever decide to 

leave Old Trafford.

And ahead of his side's trip to Manchester 

on Monday, Lage was full of praise for "

machine" Ronaldo as he makes plans to 

stop the United no. 7 from scoring in his

 next Premier League outing.