Cristiano Ronaldo said he feels “betrayed” at Manchester United and assumed he has no respect for manager Erik Ten Hag, because the opposite is not true either.
“I don’t respect him because he doesn’t respect me. If you don’t have respect for me, I will never have respect for you”, said the captain of the team in an interview with journalist Piers Morgan and that will be published in the British newspaper The Sun.
In extracts already published by the newspaper, the Portuguese athlete assures that the club tried to force his departure and that this turned him into a “black sheep”.
“Manchester United tried to force me out. Not only the manager, but also two or three other people around the club. I felt betrayed and I felt that other people didn’t want me at the club either. Not only this season but last year too”, said Cristiano Ronaldo.
When one of the twins he was going to have with Georgina Rodríguez died at birth, the club’s fans paid tribute to him in the next game, something that moved him. However, within the club, Ronaldo says he does not have the same support and accuses the structure of “lack of empathy”. This also happened in July, when her three-month-old daughter was hospitalized and, as he said in the interview, he didn’t want to start preseason again so he could be with her.
The athlete reveals that the managers came to doubt him, which “hurt” him.
Ralf Rangnick -then a coach who had a contract to be sports director, but ended up leaving for the Austrian national team- did not escape criticism either: “If you’re not even a coach, how can you be the boss of Manchester United? Talk about him” .
The attack also hit former teammate Wayne Rooney: “I don’t know why he criticizes me so much. Maybe because his career is over and I’m still playing at a high level. I won’t say I’m better.” look like him Which would be true…”
The footballer also addressed the second arrival at United and noted that nothing had evolved since the departure of Alex Ferguson.
“As Picasso once said: ‘You have to destroy to rebuild and if they want to start with me, that’s no problem for me. I love Manchester United, the fans, who have always been by my side. But if they want something different.. “There are many, many things that need to be changed. Sir Alex knows better than anyone that the club is not as it should be. He knows that. Everyone knows that. People who can’t see that… it’s probably because they don’t want to see nor am I blind”, said the player.
And he continued: “I don’t know what is happening, but since Sir Alex Ferguson left the club I don’t see any kind of evolution in the club, the progression has been nil. For example, how does a club like Manchester work? United had to fire Ole [Solskjaer] and then they bring in a sports director, Ralf Rangnick, something that nobody can understand. This man is not even a coach.”
“A big club like Manchester United brings a sports director who surprises me, not only me but everyone. Nothing has changed, the pool, the jacuzzi… even the gym. In technology, in the kitchen, even in the ‘chefs’, who are people I like and appreciate a lot. They stopped in time and that surprises me. Everything took me by surprise because I expected to see different things, as I said, in terms of infrastructure, technology… but unfortunately I continue to see things that I already saw when I was 23, 24 years old, “he concluded.
By the time he returned to United, there was a chance that Cristiano Ronaldo would play for the city, but dressed in blue. It was Ferguson who stopped him: “I followed my heart. [Sir Alex Ferguson] He told me: ‘It’s impossible for you to go to Manchester City’ and I said: ‘Okay boss'”
Regarding the World Cup, Cristiano Ronaldo wants to win “for Portugal”.
Source: TSF
