Thibaut Courtois has revealed that Cristiano Ronaldo is not talked about in the Real Madrid dressing room.
Ronaldo moved from the Spanish capital to Juventus for £88.3million after scoring 450 goals in 438 games.
The 33-year-old scored 44 goals in 44 games in his final season at Madrid before leaving for Italy.
Courtois did not play with Ronaldo at the club as he joined during the summer in a deal worth £35million with Mateo Kovacic joining Chelsea on a season-loan long.
“He is not being talked about in the locker room,” Courtois told Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad.
“It is mainly the press that drops his name. There were matches that we lost in which we got 10 chances but did not score.
“At the same time he scores two for Juventus. Then it’s easy to talk about him.”
However, Courtois did admit that the team are missing the goals of their former talisman.
Madrid’s top scorers this season are Karim Benzema with 12 goals while Gareth Bale has 11.
Ronaldo already has 17 goals for his new club this campaign.
“If Ronaldo leaves and there is no real top attacker in his place, you know that it will be a difficult year,” he continued. “You take 50 goals away.
“You hope that Benzema or Bale will score more and partly they do that too. We are making progress in the last few weeks.
“We have won the Club World Cup and are still active in the Copa del Rey and the Champions League.
“Okay, in LaLiga we are 10 points behind. But sometimes Barcelona also has difficult matches that they win in the last minute.
“Maybe it’s a bit of a transitional year. For me it does not matter much if the first year is less if the next ones are top.”