clipped from: www.dailymail.co.uk For several weeks he's been unable to play the sport that made his name, so you could forgive Cristiano Ronaldo for being browned off.
But as he spends more and more time in the Los Angeles sun, the footballer seems to be turning very brown indeed.
The 23-year-old Manchester United player has spent so much time on sun loungers and by the pool that he could almost be mistaken for the Cuprinol man from the television adverts for the wood preservative.
How now brown Cristiano: Ronaldo lies in the sun on a bed of towels, covered in sun oil in a pair of shorts, and a boot protecting his crocked ankle
Remind you of someone? If Ronaldo can't decide which football club he wants to play for, he could always consider going into advertising as the Cuprinol man's replacement
From bronzed to conker: The varying shades of Cristiano Ronaldo
Phone a friend: Ronaldo checks his text messages.