Has Ronaldo skipped out on wearing the latest version of his signature Nike CR7 Superfly III football boots?

Whilst the Portuguese winger rested on the bench for this week’s UEFA Champions League match with Dinamo Zagreb, we looked back at Ronaldo’s debut in the new Nike CR7 Superfly III against Valencia and discovered some interesting findings.

At first, we thought Cristinao was just sporting his signature mixed-stud soleplate, but as these exclusive pictures show, Ronaldo’s new football boots feature none of the carbon fibre we’ve come to expect from the Superfly III.

In fact, the Madrista’s soleplate is completely unrecognisable to the ‘standard’ Superfly.

Whilst there’s the chance this particular pair of football boots is just a particularly-heavily customised version for the Portuguese winker/winger, this soleplate has a lot in common with that of the blacked-out Mercurial Vapor VIII‘s we’ve seen him wearing constantly in training.

If we had to guess, Ronaldo could well be wearing a pair of the Mercurial Vapor VIII‘s that are disguised under his extravagant new colourway to play his matches in, ahead of it’s launch next year.

The stud layout certainly looks a lot like this…

Whilst we’re obviously gutted that Ronaldo might not play in the Superfly III again, the fact that he’d go to such lengths to play in the Mercurial Vapor VIII must mean that it’s a very special boot indeed!

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…and the glass-fibre sole certainly looks near-identical to these!

We’ll be keeping a sharp eye on Ronnie’s football boots over the next few games, and if you think you spot something – drop us a line on our Facebook and Twitter pages!