Thibaut Courtois reveals that Cristiano Ronaldo is not discussed in the dressing room after his departure for Juventus

Thibaut Courtois has revealed that Cristiano Ronaldo shouldn’t be talked about within the Real Madrid dressing room.

Ronaldo moved from the Spanish capital to Juventus for £88.3million after scoring 450 targets in 438 video games.

The 33-year-old scored 44 targets in 44 video games in his last season at Madrid earlier than leaving for Italy.

Courtois didn’t play with Ronaldo on the membership as he joined throughout the summer time in a deal price £35million with Mateo Kovacic becoming a member of Chelsea on a season-loan lengthy.

“He’s not being talked about within the locker room,” Courtois instructed Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad.

“It’s primarily the press that drops his identify. There have been matches that we misplaced during which we received 10 probabilities however didn’t rating.

“On the similar time he scores two for Juventus. Then it’s straightforward to speak about him.”

Nonetheless, Courtois did admit that the group are lacking the targets of their former talisman.

Madrid’s high scorers this season are Karim Benzema with 12 targets whereas Gareth Bale has 11.

Ronaldo already has 17 targets for his new membership this marketing campaign.

“If Ronaldo leaves and there’s no actual high attacker in his place, you realize that will probably be a tough yr,” he continued. “You are taking 50 targets away.

“You hope that Benzema or Bale will rating extra and partly they do this too. We’re making progress in the previous couple of weeks.

“We’ve got received the Membership World Cup and are nonetheless lively within the Copa del Rey and the Champions League.

“Okay, in LaLiga we’re 10 factors behind. However typically Barcelona additionally has tough matches that they win within the final minute.

“Perhaps it’s a little bit of a transitional yr. For me it doesn’t matter a lot if the primary yr is much less if the following ones are high.”