Sporting CP president Bruno de Carvalho wants Cristiano Ronaldo to end his career at the Lisbon club.
Ronaldo began his career at Sporting and will face the club when Real Madrid begin their defence of the Champions League trophy at the Bernabeu on Wednesday.
"Yes, without a doubt, I would love for Ronaldo to end his career here, at home," Sporting's president proclaimed when asked by Marca if he wanted the forward to one day return to the club.
"He represents a lot for us and it would be beautiful if he could end his career here. He is a world ambassador.
"Cristiano always speaks well about us – he is very fond of the club.
"As we found out when we saw his face when the draw came out, we are playing against our boy. It's going to be beautiful.
"I believe selling Ronaldo (to Manchester United) was a bad business deal both in sporting and financial aspects, I think he was also too young to leave."
However, the Portugal captain has said on a number of occasions he would like to retire in Madrid and he is expected to sign a contract extension with the club in the coming months.
De Carvalho still remains hopeful that he can lure the 31-year-old back to the Jose Alvalade stadium.
"We are making a great effort for certain players to return to the club," he continued.
"We already did that with Nani [who spent the 2014-15 campaign on loan at Sporting] and we will see that many times."
