“Cristiano signed a two-year contract, I couldn’t believe it”

Cristiano Ronaldo is still one of the current names in this summer market. The Portuguese player is still in his thirteen and wants to leave Manchester United, although nothing has been resolved three days before the ‘Red Devils’ debut in the Premier League. Ten Hag, for his part, was blunt with him and described as “unacceptable” the fact that he left the friendly against Rayo Vallecano before time.

The cabals about his future continue and Jamie Carragher took sides in one of theman institution in English football, in a talk given to The Overlap. The former Liverpool player did not hesitate to charge hard against the Portuguese footballer, starting with his return to Old Trafford last season and ending with his current form: “I always thought that Cristiano was a strange signing. I felt that this situation would come, even if I did very well last year with United. He signed a two-year contract, something that I could not believe. He’s never going to be second to anyone, but there are certain stages of a career where you know you’re not the same player anymore. His career has lengthened because he is a great professional, but he is 37 years old and will be 38 this season. He is still a great goalscorer, but he is not the same player.”

Carragher also did not ignore the impact that Cristiano has in the dressing room of the Mancunian team or the lack of harmony with his new coach, Erik ten Hag: “No team in Europe wants him right nowso he could be wrong. It doesn’t look like United can get him out. If you ask Ten Hag, I don’t think he wants him, I’m not too sure the United dressing room wants Cristiano Ronaldo either.”

Gary Neville, ex del Manchester Unitedalso intervened in the talk and hinted that what his old team should do is fire Cristiano: “You can’t have your star player at a club running everything. You can’t have it. We know Ronaldo can’t press high, I’m not sure he fits into Ten Hag’s model of play. If a player becomes a dominant factor and a distraction in a manager’s press conference, there is only one thing that has to happen. And we all know which one.”

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