<p class="title">Cristiano Ronaldo has said he decided to leave Real Madrid for Juventus after sensing that the Spanish club's president, Florentino Perez, no longer saw him as being "indispensable".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I felt within the club, especially from the president, that I was no longer considered in the same way as I was at the beginning," Ronaldo said in an interview with France Football magazine.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"For the first four or five years, I felt like Cristiano Ronaldo. Less so after. The president looked at me in a way that suggested I was no longer indispensable, if you know what I mean. That is what made me think about leaving."</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 33-year-old Portuguese superstar joined Juventus in a 100 million-euro ($115 million) deal in July, ending a glorious nine-year association with Real.</p>.<p class="bodytext">His last act with the Spanish club was to participate in them winning the Champions League for a third consecutive season by beating Liverpool in the final in May.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But Zinedine Zidane departed as coach in the wake of that game, something which Ronaldo admits confirmed to him that it might be time to move on.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"My decision to leave was not based on him going. That said, it was one of the little details that confirmed to me what I had been thinking about the situation at the club," Ronaldo said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He added that he would "deserve" to win the Ballon d'Or this year, and in doing so would pass Lionel Messi by taking the award for a sixth time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The winner of the prize, awarded by France Football, will be announced in early December.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But while Ronaldo continues to enjoy great success on the field, scoring twice for Juventus at the weekend, he remains embroiled in off-pitch problems after being accused of rape in the United States.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A former American model Kathryn Mayorga, 34, of Las Vegas, accused Ronaldo in a 32-page complaint filed last month with a district court in Nevada, of raping her in June 2009, just before he joined Madrid from Manchester United.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Of course this matter interferes with my life. I have a partner, four children, an ageing mother, sisters, a brother, a family with whom I am very close," he told the magazine.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"That is without talking about my reputation, that of an exemplary person. Imagine what that is like to have someone say you are a rapist, or that you have this or that.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I know who I am and what I did. The truth will come out. And the people who criticise me and who expose my life today, who make a song and dance about it, these people will see."</p>
<p class="title">Cristiano Ronaldo has said he decided to leave Real Madrid for Juventus after sensing that the Spanish club's president, Florentino Perez, no longer saw him as being "indispensable".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I felt within the club, especially from the president, that I was no longer considered in the same way as I was at the beginning," Ronaldo said in an interview with France Football magazine.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"For the first four or five years, I felt like Cristiano Ronaldo. Less so after. The president looked at me in a way that suggested I was no longer indispensable, if you know what I mean. That is what made me think about leaving."</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 33-year-old Portuguese superstar joined Juventus in a 100 million-euro ($115 million) deal in July, ending a glorious nine-year association with Real.</p>.<p class="bodytext">His last act with the Spanish club was to participate in them winning the Champions League for a third consecutive season by beating Liverpool in the final in May.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But Zinedine Zidane departed as coach in the wake of that game, something which Ronaldo admits confirmed to him that it might be time to move on.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"My decision to leave was not based on him going. That said, it was one of the little details that confirmed to me what I had been thinking about the situation at the club," Ronaldo said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He added that he would "deserve" to win the Ballon d'Or this year, and in doing so would pass Lionel Messi by taking the award for a sixth time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The winner of the prize, awarded by France Football, will be announced in early December.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But while Ronaldo continues to enjoy great success on the field, scoring twice for Juventus at the weekend, he remains embroiled in off-pitch problems after being accused of rape in the United States.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A former American model Kathryn Mayorga, 34, of Las Vegas, accused Ronaldo in a 32-page complaint filed last month with a district court in Nevada, of raping her in June 2009, just before he joined Madrid from Manchester United.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Of course this matter interferes with my life. I have a partner, four children, an ageing mother, sisters, a brother, a family with whom I am very close," he told the magazine.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"That is without talking about my reputation, that of an exemplary person. Imagine what that is like to have someone say you are a rapist, or that you have this or that.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I know who I am and what I did. The truth will come out. And the people who criticise me and who expose my life today, who make a song and dance about it, these people will see."</p>