Christiano Ronaldo is being lined up to star in a multi-million dollar remake of the epic TV series 'Roots.'Producers say the stars treament at the hands of Man. Utd.make him the perfect choice to portray the young African slave,Kunta Kinta,who is beaten by his brutal masters.

The Portuguese winger said he had been traumatised by 'outrageous' demands that he honour the 125,000 pound a week legally binding contract,which has brought him only misery,adulation and Gemma Atkinson.

Speaking from the titanium gazebo in the rose garden of his 31-room mansion,Ronaldo said "I feel I can relate to the suffering of African slaves.If anything,it is worse because footballers cannot sing while we work whereas they had time to develop gospel music during their 16 hour shifts before dropping dead from exhaustion."

In the series,a young African boy is dragged from his homeland and shipped to America where he is forced to work in the fields by a cruel and violent plantation owner."The similarities are uncanny though, admittedly,the Lear Jet that flew me from Lisbon to Manchester wasn't packed with 150 other players sleeping head to toe"said Ronaldo.Ronaldo also conceded that,while the slave master in 'Roots' adminstered brutal beatings,Man Utd.boss Sir Alex Ferguson had nurtured his talent,lavished him with praise and turned him into one of the best footballers in the world."But without the freedom to do whatever I want,wherever I want for whatever fee I want,I am exactly the same as the cotton picker forced to live in a shed,dying at the age of 32"opined the flying winger solemnly.

He added"I know everybody will love my acting.Already,in the streets,I hear many of them calling to me 'Kunta'."