Ronaldo and Georgina hire staff on salaries of over five thousand euros for their new home in Portugal

Cristiano Ronaldo and his partner have reportedly hired staff for the new £18 million (€20.5 million) residence they are building on the Portuguese Riviera.

The Manchester United striker and Georgina Rodriguez have reportedly already selected four employees, including a butler and a chef on a monthly salary of €5,490, according to the Portuguese daily Correio da Manha.

The news that Cristiano is recruiting staff for the exclusive property, which is due to be completed early next year, is likely to fuel speculation that his future could lie with boyhood club Sporting, writes The Sun.

Speaking exclusively to The Sun’s Piers Morgan, the 37-year-old accused Man United of betraying him – while admitting that he does not respect manager Erik ten Hag.

After Ronaldo’s explosive interview, Sporting manager Ruben Amorim said: “Everyone at Sporting likes him, and therefore there is not much to say about this.

Cristiano has been linked with a return to the Lisbon club, of which the footballer’s mother, Dolores Aveiro, is a passionate fan, since the summer – when it emerged that he was seeking to leave Old Trafford before the end of his current two-year contract and play in the Champions League.

Unconfirmed reports earlier this year, published in Portugal and the United Kingdom, claimed that Ronaldo had enrolled his children at a school in Lisbon.

The property he is building in Quinta da Marinha, half an hour from Lisbon Airport and ten minutes from the center of the coastal town of Cascais, which is part of the so-called Portuguese Riviera, will have a garage large enough to house 30 supercars.

The luxury home is also expected to boast a cinema, games room, spa and large suites, bedrooms with stunning ocean views, as well as indoor and outdoor swimming pools.

The residence will be added to an already extensive portfolio of properties in his home country, which includes a seven-storey apartment block overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in the Madeiran capital, Funchal, where his mother and older brother Hugo live, and two apartments in Lisbon.