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Cristiano Ronaldo more and more alone. He is done with Manchester United after the sensational interview in which he gave zero shots on the club, directors and coach. The teammates, the only ones excluded from CR7’s fatal wrath, also turned their backs on him. In the literal sense of the word, as seen in the video filmed in the Portugal dressing room, with Bruno Fernandes (captain of United) who almost refuses to shake his hand, looks at him lopsided, barely speaks to him.

The dialogue between Ronaldo and journalist Piers Morgan, TV star with 8 million followers on Twitter, was like a media counteroffensive by a multinational corporation grappling with the public defense of its global brand. An interview that had an enormous worldwide echo and took him by surprise United, the club that betrayed me, which is now thinking of a legal action against its star aiming at the termination of the pharaonic contractexpiring in June. Ten Hag, the manager Cristiano has no respect for, has told club officials he doesn’t want to see him again. Certainly, therefore, Ronaldo will not return to Manchester in January. Where can it end? There are those who hypothesize a return to Italy, to Rome for his friend Mou, but Sporting Lisbon, his home, is in pole position, perhaps the right place not to overshadow him during this long last dance.

Meanwhile, extracts from the interview (an hour and a half) with CR7 continue to arrive, which will be broadcast in England in two parts between Wednesday and Thursday. One of the most debated topics concerns the pre-season, when Cristiano missed the tour in Thailand and Australia and a good part of the retreat in Carrington. He and Georgina lost one of the twins they were expecting in April. At three months, in July, the little one
Bella Esmeralda had bad bronchitis, which forced her to be hospitalized for a week. Ronaldo says: I spoke to the sporting director and the president of Manchester United when my daughter was ill. It was as if they didn’t believe my words, and this made me feel bad – he explains in a new preview of the dialogue with Piers Morgan -. They listened to me, but it was clear that they doubted my words, that my daughter had big problems, that Georgina was feeling bad for her. the reason why i didn’t leave for the tour: as a father and as a husband i couldn’t leave my family at that moment. Not for the pre-season.

Cristiano lashed out at the United manager ten Hag, I have no respect for him because he has shown no respect for me. And if he doesn’t show me respect, you’ll never get mine. Words that have put a tombstone on the relationship between the two. Ronaldo knows he is no longer the player he was, he reveals in the interview, but he certainly didn’t expect to be relegated almost always to the bench. He says he still wants to break records, that he has a better understanding of the game than he did when he was a boy. He also returns to the mid-October match with Tottenham, when he refused to enter the field and left the bench before the 90th minute: CR7 tells Morgan that he apologized to the entire team for that gesture.

Thus two of his former companions end up in the crosshairs of the Portuguese, Gary Neville And Wayne Rooneytoday commentators on TV and in the newspapers, often floggers of Ronaldo 2.0, more ballast than resource (his behavior is unacceptable, the former English striker recently ruled): Wayne I don’t understand why he criticizes me. Maybe jealous because I’m still playing at a high level and he quit at 30 – the boost of CR7 -. I won’t say I’m prettier than he is, which I am. Then it’s Neville’s turn: hard to hear all that criticism from people that he played with you. Like Gary. People may have their own opinion, but they don’t know what happens in training or in my life. They should also listen to my point of view. It’s easy to criticize, I don’t know if for their work on TV they have to criticize to be more famous. It’s still: I think they take advantage of my name because they are not stupid. I’m the most followed person on the planet, not a coincidence. I know I have to take criticism and praise, but it’s not nice to hear such heavy criticism from people who have been in a locker room with you. a bit disappointing. Rooney in particular. Six months ago, a year at the latest, he came to my house to pick up his children and invited my son to go and play football at his house. I really don’t understand people like him. Maybe they want to be on the cover of a newspaper, or they’re hoping to get a new job. Neither he nor Neville are my friends. They were colleagues, we played together, but I certainly won’t go to dinner with them.

Finally, as anticipated by Sun, a direct attack on the Glazer familyowner of United: They don’t care about the team. At least not in the sports part. Manchester United is a club that earns them money thanks to marketing, but they don’t care about the sporting part and they give all the power to the president and sporting director. I haven’t spoken to them since I got back. According to Cristiano at United as if time had stopped. In terms of technology and structures, nothing has changed. Not even the gym or jacuzzi, not even the cooks. I found the same things as when I was 22-23. Everything stopped. The fans are right to criticize the ownership, says the Portuguese: They should know the truth, know that the players want the best for Manchester United, that I want the best for Manchester United and that’s why I’m back, because I love this club . But fans should also know that there are situations within the club that prevent them from reaching the top tier, where they are City, Liverpool and now Arsenal too. It’s tough, it’s going to be tough for United to be at the top in the next 2-3 years.