Cristiano Ronaldo Reveals It All; Sad News To Manchester United Fans

It’s been said by the media, his bosses, his coworkers, and even his old team members.

Above all, he’s had enough of not getting the basic respect he thinks he deserves after winning 32 trophies, including five Ballon d’Ors, five Champions Leagues, seven league titles in four different countries, and a Euros with Portugal.

Ronaldo says that he can’t respect Ten Hag because “he doesn’t respect me.”

“There was no progress.” – Sir Alex Ronaldo is still a father figure for United. Fergie made me decide not to join City.
Ronaldo, who is 37, has scored more goals than anyone else in football history. Zinedine Zidane and Carlo Ancelotti, two of the best players of all time, agree with me that Ronaldo is the best player ever.

He is also the person with the most followers on Instagram, which is a modern measure of star power and is about to reach 500 million followers.

As he gets ready to fly to Qatar for what will probably be his fifth and last World Cup, he wants to be heard.

We sat down for a 90-minute TV interview for my show Piers Morgan Uncensored. It is by far the most explosive interview he has ever given.

Ronaldo finally sets the record straight about what he calls the “most difficult time of my life,” both professionally and personally.

He says he feels “betrayed” by the way Manchester United has treated him. He is upset that he has been made a “black sheep” who is blamed for everything that has gone wrong at the club, and he thinks he is now being actively pushed out.

In just over a year at work, he has had three bosses.

For one, he has nothing but respect for his old teammate Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who was fired just a few weeks after Ronaldo came back.

He doesn’t have much good to say about Ralf Rangnick and the current manager, Erik ten Hag.

He says this about Rangnick, who had not managed a football team in over a decade: “How are you going to be the boss of Manchester United if you’re not even a coach? I didn’t even know who he was.”

He doesn’t treat me with respect, so I don’t respect him.

Ronaldo On Erik Ten Hag

“I don’t respect him because he doesn’t respect me,” Ronaldo says of Ten Hag, who suspended him last month for refusing to come on as a last-minute substitute against Tottenham. If you don’t treat me with respect, I’ll never respect you.”

“If you don’t respect me, I won’t respect you ever,” he said.

Some of his harshest critics, like another former teammate, Wayne Rooney, who has been attacking Ronaldo in public for months and telling United to get rid of him, he thinks are just trying to get in the news.

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He says, “I don’t know why he criticizes me so much. It’s probably because he’s done with his career and I’m still playing at a high level.”

Then he laughs and says, “I’m not going to say I look better than he does. Which is right…?”

Back in April, at home, he and his girlfriend Georgina lost their baby son during childbirth. It was a heartbreaking tragedy, but the baby’s twin sister lived.

Somehow, he found the strength to keep playing. This was helped by the incredible support he got from fans of rival clubs like Liverpool, who sang “You’ll Never Walk Alone” in the seventh minute of their next home game (Ronaldo wears No. 7 on his shirt).

He and Georgina also got a personal message of sympathy from the Royal Family, which both surprised and moved him.

Surprisingly, his club didn’t help him as much as they should have. He says they don’t have “empathy,” especially when his 3-month-old daughter was hospitalized in July and he had to stay with her instead of going to pre-season training.

Ronaldo says that when he told top managers at Old Trafford why he couldn’t come back, they didn’t believe him, which made him feel “hurt” and “bad.”

The fairy tale wasn’t supposed to end this way.

Just over 14 months ago, Ronaldo made headlines when he signed back up with Manchester United. His comeback story shocked and captivated the football world.

He was on his way to Manchester City, a big rival of United, when his great mentor and father figure, Sir Alex Ferguson, called him and asked him to come back.

The fairy tale wasn’t supposed to end this way. He just taps his chest and says, “I followed my heart.” “He (Sir Alex) told me, ‘You can’t come to Manchester City,’ and I said, ‘OK, Boss.'”

In his first game back at Old Trafford, which calls itself the “Theatre of Dreams,” he scored twice in a 4-1 win over Newcastle. Sir Alex and Ronaldo’s mother, who was crying with joy, cheered him on from the stands.

“Viva Ronaldo!” was all the United fans could say for hours after the game.

Marcus Rashford, one of his teammates, wrote on Twitter that night, “Like he never left.”

But soon enough, the cold, hard truth hit. This Manchester United was a lot different from the one he left in 2009.

Or, to his disappointment, it was still the same, hadn’t changed at all, and was now run by people he thinks are worse than those who ran it before.

He was shocked that the training facilities, like the pool, gym, and kitchen (for food and nutrition), as well as the technology, hadn’t changed.

“There was no progress,” he sighs. “I haven’t seen any change at the club since Sir Alex left. “There was no change.”

And it bothered him that many of the younger players didn’t seem interested in learning from the lessons he had learned during his great career.

Since Sir Alex left, I haven’t seen the club change at all.

Ronaldo on Manchester United

Most importantly, he was disappointed to learn that, after years of failing and staying in the same place, United could no longer sign the best players in the world. This made it much harder for them to win top trophies.

He says, “I think the fans should know the truth.” “I want the club to do well. I come to Manchester United because of this.

“But you have some things inside that don’t help us reach the same level as City, Liverpool, and even Arsenal. I think a club of this size should be at the top of the tree, but they’re not.”

At the heart of Ronaldo’s dissatisfaction is the fact that he hates losing and wants to work in a winning environment. He doesn’t think that kind of environment exists at United right now, and he thinks that it may take drastic steps, like his leaving, to change that.

He says, “Picasso said, ‘Every act of creation is first an act of destruction,'” which is a direct quote from the artist. I don’t mind if they start with me, and I don’t mind if they don’t.

“I love Manchester United, and I love the fans. They’re always on my side. But if they want to do it differently, they have to change a lot of things.”

Ronaldo says this about Sir Alex’s thoughts on the current situation: “He knows better than anyone that the club is not where it should be.

“He is aware. Everyone has heard. People who don’t understand that… They are blind because they don’t want to see.”

When I first met Cristiano, he was still playing for Juventus in Turin, Italy, and we ended up having a four-hour dinner together.

Since then, we’ve become very strange friends who are also very good. We talk and text a lot, and he has always told me the truth.

He is very smart and likable, and he has thought a lot about doing this interview.

I’ve known for months that he’s getting more and more upset and angry.

Ronaldo takes football and winning even more seriously than anything else.

You can’t get all the trophies and records he has without having a fiercely strong and resilient mind, a relentless work ethic, a mind-bogglingly intense competitive spirit, and an unshakeable belief that you’re the best.

For someone like Ronaldo to suddenly find himself at a club that isn’t competing for top trophies and where he has been dropped, benched, snubbed, scolded, and even last month, for the first time in his career, suspended, has hit him hard.

Not least because he scored 24 goals for the team during the last season.

He doesn’t want anything special, but he does want to be treated with the respect he thinks he deserves.

Ronaldo takes football and winning even more seriously than anything else.

When our interview was over, Georgina came in with their young children, all of whom ran to their father and grabbed his legs.

It makes me happy to see Ronaldo with his kids. He gives them the same love and care that his mother has always given him.

“My family is everything to me,” he said. Even more so after everything that has happened this year.”

Earlier, in front of the camera, he said something about his dead son that was so heartbreakingly sad that it made me cry.

I can’t imagine living in the constant, crazy goldfish bowl that Ronaldo does, where everything he does or says is closely watched and often judged harshly all over the world.

It must be incredibly hard to have to do it after going through the shocking tragedy of losing a child.

He doesn’t want anyone to feel bad for him, though.

He knows that he is a very lucky man. He has a beautiful family, a lot of money, and a talent from God that has made him one of the most famous and well-known athletes in history.

Instead, he wants people to know what he’s been through this year and to hear it from him, not from rumors that aren’t true.

People will be shocked by the interview because we rarely see or hear him talk like this.

I don’t know how this story will end, but I don’t think Cristiano Ronaldo will go back to Manchester United after this.

But for now, he wants to focus on the World Cup and “win it for Portugal.” Then he will come back and figure out what to do with United.

He made it clear to me that no matter what happens, his heart will always be with the club and its fans.

“Those are the most important things in football,” he says. They are why you play.

“They always support me. I feel like every time I go out or walk down the street, football fans come up to me and tell me how much they appreciate what I do for the sport.

“The fans are everything to me. I’m giving this interview because I think now is a good time to say what I think.”

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