🚨 Erik ten Hag: “Cristiano Ronaldo was telling the players: save your legs at training”. “I understand it when you are top fit… …but first you have to train yourself to get into the right fitness levels”, told @lauriewhitwell on @TheAthleticFC.

🚨🎙️ Ilídio Vale, Fernando Santos’ former assistant coach, on Erik ten Hag saying Cristiano Ronaldo let him and Manchester United down: “If we’re being honest, I think people need to look at the bigger picture. Every time Cristiano Ronaldo joins a team, it seems like a serious conflict with the manager eventually follows, and the conversation immediately becomes about how the manager failed to handle him. But why does this keep happening? Look at José Mourinho, Maurizio Sarri, Ralf Rangnick, Erik ten Hag and Fernando Santos. These are different managers, with different personalities and football philosophies, yet controversy has followed his relationship with several of them. I worked alongside Santos with Portugal, and I saw how difficult things became during that final World Cup. People blamed Fernando for benching Cristiano, but they didn’t understand the decisions he had to make. When you’re coaching a team, you cannot allow one player’s status to determine every tactical decision. Against Switzerland, Gonçalo Ramos started and scored a hat-trick. Against Morocco, Santos made another difficult decision, but suddenly the discussion was no longer about Portugal’s tactics. It was about Cristiano being on the bench. As a manager, when your system isn’t working and you believe another player can give you something different, you have to make that decision. You need players who will press, defend and work for the team. Cristiano has extraordinary qualities, but at that stage of his career, those demands presented a different challenge. And when you make a decision he doesn’t agree with, you risk creating another problem. That is something every manager working with a player of his stature has to consider. Now look at Ten Hag. Maybe he made mistakes, and I’m not saying every decision he made was correct. But when a manager says he explained things to a player and still feels that player let him and the team down, we have to ask ourselves what happened between them. Honestly, I think this is one of the reasons many Portuguese people still respect Lionel Messi today, and some Ronaldo fans interpret that respect as disrespect towards Cristiano. People admire Messi not only for what he does on the pitch, but also for how he carries himself. You can debate who the better player is, but respecting Messi should never mean disrespecting Ronaldo. Cristiano is one of the greatest players football has ever seen. His achievements speak for themselves. But nobody is bigger than the team, and reputation cannot protect you from criticism. At some point, we have to stop making every manager the villain. When these situations keep repeating themselves, there is a bigger conversation we need to have.”

🚨 Bayer Leverkusen regard Erik ten Hag as the worst manager in the club’s history following his dismissal. 🇩🇪 The Dutchman allegedly fell out with players and staff, recommended only players represented by his agency and faced questions over his training methods. The club are even said to regret not sacking him sooner. As a reminder, he lasted just three competitive matches in charge of the club. (Source: BILD)

One thing about Cristiano Ronaldo is that he always seems to fall out with his managers and create problems for his teams wherever he goes. We've seen it with his former national team managers and at Manchester United with Ten Hag. Ten Hag has now come out to say he personally wanted to work with Ronaldo as a top player and build a project with him, but he wasn't willing to help. Imagine being so self-centred that you can't put the team's interests above your own. 🤦‍♂️

🚨Casemiro on the Erik ten Hag and Cristiano Ronaldo controversy at Manchester United: REPORTER: You played with Cristiano Ronaldo at Manchester United, and now you’re experiencing life alongside Lionel Messi at Inter Miami. Has that changed the way you look at greatness? CASEMIRO: “Absolutely. And honestly, it has made me reflect on some things that happened at Manchester United. “When I joined United, I came from Real Madrid with Cristiano. I knew what he had achieved. I knew his mentality, his hunger, his desire to be the best. Nobody can take those things away from him. He is one of the greatest players in football history. “But there is something I have learned from playing with Messi that goes beyond football. Being the best in the world does not mean you have to behave as though you are above everyone else.” “Messi has won everything. He has the World Cup, the Ballon d’Ors, the Champions League trophies. He has experienced things most footballers can only dream about. “Yet when you see him around the dressing room, when you see how he treats people, how he speaks to teammates and how he reacts when someone makes a mistake, you understand something. “He doesn't need to remind you who he is. He doesn't need to be the loudest person in the room. His football already tells you everything. “Messi is one of the most humble footballers I have ever met. And that has made me understand that greatness is not only about what you achieve. It is also about how you make the people around you feel.” REPORTER: Are you saying Ronaldo’s relationship with Erik ten Hag was part of Manchester United’s problem? CASEMIRO: “I think the situation became bigger than football, and that was the problem. “Ten Hag came to Manchester United with his own ideas, his own demands and a plan for how he wanted the team to play. Every manager needs the dressing room to believe in that plan. When disagreements between a manager and a player of Cristiano's stature become public, the whole club feels the consequences. “And when you have a player as important as Cristiano, every disagreement becomes a headline. Suddenly, instead of discussing the team's performances, everybody is discussing the manager, the player and who should win the argument. “That is not how a big club should operate. “Cristiano had his expectations. Ten Hag had his authority to protect. But Manchester United needed both the players and the manager pulling in the same direction. The club could not keep moving forward while that situation dominated everything.” REPORTER: Do you believe United could have achieved more under Ten Hag? CASEMIRO: “I do believe things could have been different if the situation had been handled differently and the conflict had not become such a distraction. “Ten Hag won trophies at United. He showed that he could organise a team and compete. But a club like Manchester United needs more than one good season or a cup victory. It needs stability, unity and players who are completely committed to the same project. “Look at Messi. He doesn't need to walk into a dressing room and demand that everybody acknowledge his greatness. He earns respect through his behaviour, his work and what he does on the pitch. “You can be the most talented person in the room and still be humble enough to listen. You can disagree with your manager without making the disagreement bigger than the club. And you can be a superstar without making everything about yourself” “Manchester United had quality. They had experienced players. They had a manager trying to build something. If everyone had remained focused on the collective goal, perhaps the story under Ten Hag would have been very different. “Playing with Messi has reminded me that true greatness doesn't need to announce itself. It shows in the way you treat people, especially when you are powerful enough to do whatever you want.”

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🚨 Erik ten Hag: “Cristiano Ronaldo was telling the players: save your legs at training”. “I understand it when you are top fit… …but first you have to train yourself to get into the right fitness levels”, told @lauriewhitwell on @TheAthleticFC.

Cristiano's work rate 😳 #UCL

🚨 Erik ten Hag on Cristiano Ronaldo in training: “He ran neither in possession nor out of possession. The reason was because he didn’t prepare himself”. “Every top team has to embrace the top player, but the top player has to work for the team…”, told @TheAthleticFC.

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⚽️ Goals without penalties: 🇦🇷 Messi: 821 goals 🇵🇹 Ronaldo: 797 goals Messi has played 159 fewer games! 😮