As we reported, Cristiano Ronaldo in an exclusive interview published over the weekend, he recounted what he experienced at Manchester United in recent months. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner said, among other things, that he was “betrayed” by the club, the coach Erik ten Hagot but he doesn’t respect me “because he doesn’t respect me either”.
Ten Hag’s predecessor, one of the biggest thinkers in German football, was noticed, certainly, mainly due to his theoretical work and his successes as a club coach at RB Leipzig About Ralf Rangnick but he simply said he doesn’t understand: “How can someone become the boss of Manchester United if they haven’t managed a football club before?”. (Just for the record: he managed 294 championships as head coach in the German top flight alone, sitting on the bench in Stuttgart, Hannover, Hoffenheim, Schalke and Leipzig-ed.)
On Monday morning, the Sky Sports journalist wrote that the fact of the interview shocked his teammates, as the dressing room had no information on what Ronaldo was up to. Kaveh Solhekol Noted: CR was dropped from the squad for the weekend match against Fulham at his own request after being told on Thursday he would be counted out for the last match before the World Cup break.
“Neither the coach nor the players understand why he said what he did. They are extremely disappointed and feel that Ronaldo has shown no respect to the club, the coach and his teammates,” wrote the Sky journalist.
The management is reportedly evaluating how to sanction the farewell of the Portuguese attacker, but no decision has yet been made on the matter. Since the times – even if the Premier League will return on Christmas after the World Cup – in any case it can be concluded quite clearly that the case will continue: after the declaration of war, which condemned both the management and the coach, CR has little chance of staying at Old Trafford.
According to press reports, the player’s frustration has only increased for months, even though he did not tell his coach face-to-face, he refused to accept (give?) Ten Hag’s open offer, according to which he can yet to be a useful bench member in the future for the United squad. On the tactical reasons why the Dutch manager might feel that Cristiano Ronaldo is not a useful enough member of the squad, we wrote here!
In the fall, Ronaldo played in only ten of fourteen championships, spent just over 520 minutes in the game and scored only one goal. His stats are a bit spruced up if you count international cup appearances and Europa League group games, he was a regular six out of six in the El, and helped his team climb from group to runners-up. with two goals and two assists.
Memorable, in the league match against Tottenham he expressly refused to be replaced by Ten Hag, then walked off the stadium during the match, for which he was punished: he was not allowed to travel with the team to the rally against Chelsea, and instead had to train with the youth team. Then, according to what was reported by the press, he too would have managed to ignore part of the sentence, in particular that on young people …
As early as the end of August, reports came from Manchester that the club was considering terminating Ronaldo’s contract and thus helping him switch clubs for free. Nothing has been done about it in recent weeks, there is a good chance it will happen in January.
The attacker is a Piers Morgannek said in an interview date that he is currently focusing exclusively on the Portuguese national team and on winning the World Cup in Qatar. He stressed that his fans were the most important to him during his career, so he gave this interview just for them. The full conversation will be published in two installments on Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
However, it won’t be easy for Ronaldo Portuguese national teamat the World Cup, as they will already face the best of Uruguay, South Korea and Ghana in the group stage.
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