If Cristiano Ronaldo doesn’t face Manchester City on Tuesday someone is getting fired

If Florentino Perez can fire a manager who wins the Champions League what will he do to the doctor who breaks Cristiano Ronaldo?

We're imagining some agonisingly painful punishment borrowed from Game of Thrones... or else being forced to stitch up all Zinedine Zidane's torn trousers. While Ronaldo was sitting on the bench at the Etihad watching videos of himself, the rest of us were watching a less than eventful Champions League semi-final semi-final first leg that was crying out for a spark from the Portuguese superstar. Now it seems there is much more to Ronaldo's absence against Manchester City than meets the eye and it could have massive implications for the future employment of the Real Madrid medical department. Goal are reporting that Ronaldo eventually sought his own medical advice when the La Liga club failed to send him for an MRI scan after he picked up a hamstring injury against Villarreal on April 20th. This led to the under-fire medical department incorrectly diagnosing muscle fatigue instead of a hamstring tear. They allowed the 31 year old to travel to Manchester, allowed Zidane to declare him "100 percent fit" in his pre-match press conference and allowed Zidane to take part in a training session that he failed to complete. On his return to Madrid, Ronaldo received a second opinion from an independent clinic, instead of Sanitas, the clinic that has a partnership with Real. This latest issue comes on the back of misdiagnosing a Karim Benzema knee problem last season. No doubt Perez is attaching the lasers to the sharks' heads as we speak.