CRISTIANO RONALDO HAS hit out at the “lies” surrounding reports about his future at Manchester United.
The Portugal forward missed United’s pre-season tour to Thailand and Australia because of personal reasons amid speculation over whether he would be leaving Old Trafford.
It has been reported Ronaldo wants to play Champions League football, but United maintain the 37-year-old is not for sale and remains an integral part of the plans of new boss Erik ten Hag.
Ronaldo played the full 90 minutes of United’s 4-0 defeat at Brentford on Saturday, which left them bottom of the Premier League.
In a reply to a fan account on Instagram which referred to a report linking the United frontman to Atletico Madrid, Ronaldo said: “They (will) know the truth when they interview in a couple weeks. The media is telling lies.
I have a notebook and in the last few months of the 100 news I made, only five were right. Imagine how it is. Stick with that tip.”
Former defender Gary Neville, who has been a vocal critic of the club’s current ownership, called for Ronaldo to set the record straight sooner rather than later.
The Sky Sports pundit wrote on Twitter: “Why does the greatest player of all time (in my opinion) have to wait two weeks to tell Manchester United fans the truth? Stand up now and speak.
“The club is in crisis and it needs leaders to lead. He’s the only one who can grab this situation by the scruff of the neck!”
Manchester United will look to kickstart their Premier League campaign when they host Liverpool on Monday night.
United’s owners have come under fire following the team’s terrible start, with Neville warning the club could finish in the bottom half of the Premier League if they do not address their “horror story” recruitment strategy.
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@HarveyLemonade: Sadio Mane was posting similar bull£hi£e before he LEFT Liverpool.
With any luck he will move on. He was a legend for Utd in his hay day but he is a liability on and off the field these days and given his ego is bigger than most footballers which is saying something he is causing nothing but issues in the dressing room. He should never have returned, he had just tainted his own legendary status with so many of the fans.
@Peter: hindsight is a great thing tho. It seemed like a good idea at the time
@Peter: Nonsense. Maybe if other players in the dressing room followed his example, the team wouldn’t be were they are now. If you can’t look, admire and learn from one of the greatest players to ever play the game, you are the problem, not him.
@Peter: you want your best player to move on,that makes alot of sense.
@Peter: what a load of sh# t he was there best player last season
It will be great craic watching him strop and sulk around if he has to stay at utd this season earning half a million a week.
This is Manchester United…
They’ll still be shi te with or without him!
Nevile is right. Why wait 2 weeks “to speak the truth”. Say it now, whether or not he is going to stay he needs to show some loyalty to the fans now by setting the record straight. I have always been a fan of his because while he was always a mouth piece his record on the pitch more than matched it. Now his ego is not matched by his contribution on the pitch.
Couple of weeks he’s on his way out then its looking that way to me doesn’t want to say anything while at Utd some loyalty there shown by Ronaldo the great!!
@Ron: loyalty haha. Don’t make me laugh. He’s as loyal as an alley cat.
@Ron: “Every human being can be guaranteed to look after their own best interest. It’s called enlightened self-interest”.
What non-Portuguese speakers are missing out on is the delightfully barely literate way in which he tweeted, with glaring misspelling and oddly Brazilian sounding phrasing for a native European Portuguese speaker. Instant meme material!
@Rui Firmino: Is the dialect of Madeira the same as Portugal? I don’t doubt your comment, just curious.
@Diarmuid Hunt: Pretty much, more of a difference in accent and even that it’s not super different
@Diarmuid Hunt: eu não sobre
Don’t think anyone wants him though?(or can afford him).
I would think their is clauses in Ronaldo s contract , and maybe giving him the benefit of the doubt , maybe united didn’t honour them ?
@Tricksy: the only major clause he has besides image rights is the option for a 3rd year which the player can activate but if the club try to activate it he has to agree
The longer this crisis runs on the more I’m looking at old Ronnie as a key component of it, I know he had a good personal haul of goals last season but it brought us nowhere, we were no further forward. We actually went backwards and now wer going backwards only with way more acceleration.
Off to Inter MIAMI :-)
No one wants him anymore. He gone too old should hang up his boots.
@John brett: true
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