DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo has left Manchester United with speedy impact. The place will he flip up subsequent?The Portugal star has put himself in the marketplace along with his explosive pre-World Cup interview that led to the termination of his contract on Tuesday.As a free agent, the 37-year-old ahead now has the prospect to impress potential suitors and show he can nonetheless carry out on the very best degree for his nation in Qatar.His future might effectively rely upon it after failing to safe a switch to a Champions League membership in the summertime.Halfway by way of the season, his choices look much more restricted if he’s set on taking part in within the knockout phases of European membership soccer’s high competitors when he returns from the World Cup. The Champions League is now right down to the final 16 groups, with solely a tiny variety of these in a position to come near providing Ronaldo something just like the reported 500,000 kilos (594,000 {dollars}) every week wage he earned at United. And there was little proof that they’d be focused on signing him.Ronaldo’s interview with Piers Morgan, during which he criticized United supervisor Erik ten Hag and the membership’s house owners, made it clear he nonetheless believes he is among the high soccer gamers on the planet. However the place on this planet will his profession take him subsequent?A CHAMPIONS LEAGUE CLUBThere are solely 16 to select from if Ronaldo harbors ambitions of taking part in within the competitors when it resumes in February. Then it’s a query of who would might afford him. A dream situation can be to have one final fling with a very elite membership. However maybe his finest likelihood of that might be as a short-term repair till the tip of the season. Actual Madrid striker Karim Benzema has been dominated out of the World Cup with damage and so has Bayern Munich’s Sadio Mane.Maybe Ronaldo can be a pretty emergency possibility if both of these golf equipment feared being left quick within the second half of the marketing campaign. A PREMIER LEAGUE CLUBChelsea thought-about a transfer in the summertime, however that by no means materialized. Ronaldo wouldn’t seem to slot in with the long-term planning of recent supervisor Graham Potter, who’s already having to cope with one ageing striker in Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.Arsenal fan Piers Morgan is pushing for a transfer to his membership, however the Premier League chief has invested in constructing a younger group underneath supervisor Mikel Arteta and Ronaldo can be a departure from that.May Saudi-backed Newcastle be tempted to make a primary really assertion signing underneath its new possession? A RETURN HOMETo end his profession the place it began at Sporting Lisbon would offer a romantic bookend for Ronaldo, whereas the Portuguese membership might present him with a route again to the Champions League subsequent season.He must take a substantial pay minimize if he have been to take up this feature. SAUDI ARABIAThe solely critical curiosity in Ronaldo in the summertime got here from Saudi Arabia. Whereas a transfer there would seemingly current essentially the most profitable possibility for him, it might be a marked step down by way of his remaining sporting ambition.It will deny him the prospect to additional lengthen his report because the all-time main scorer within the Champions League, with 140 targets, and hand his nice rival Lionel Messi, who has 129, the prospect to overhaul him.MLSPerhaps it’s time to take his model to america and turn into the largest star ever to play in MLS.He couldn’t hope to match his wage and he must settle for his days taking part in within the Champions League are over.However for a person who has greater than half a billion followers on Instagram this might be the prospect to maneuver to the largest market on this planet off the sector – and a brand new journey.______James Robson is at https://twitter.com/jamesalanrobson