Man United have warned Real Madrid over their public pursuit of
Cristiano Ronaldo after the Spanish club admitted he was their top
transfer
target.

Man United issued a statement describing their "growing irritation" at
continuing comments emerging from the Spanish club conerning their
interest in the Portugal winger.

The statement said: "Manchester United have watched with growing
irritation the comments attributed to Real Madrid over their illeged
desire
to sign Cristiano Ronaldo.

"The facts are the player is on a long-term contract and his
registration is held by Manchester United. The player is not for
sale. The club
will have no alternative but to report Real Madrid to Fifa if it
continues to behave in this totally unacceptable fashion."

Madrid coach Bernd Schuster said: "There are other players we have
been
looking at but everything has slowed down due to all this Ronaldo
business, seeing as he is the big priority for the club.

"He would help us in a lot of ways but we can't stop with just him.
He'll be expensive and we'll have to pay a lot of money, but we need
more
players as he won't be enough."