Cristiano Ronaldo launches new assault on Erik ten Hag, saying he is mentioned issues ‘you can not say’ as Man United boss… as he tells them to ‘rebuild from backside’ with pointed Ruud van Nistelrooy dig

Cristiano Ronaldo has slammed Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag for his perspective since taking up the membership.

Ronaldo – who expressed his views in a blockbuster interview with Rio Ferdinand that can be launched tomorrow – is a legend at Previous Trafford after scoring 145 objectives in 326 appearances throughout two spells, whereas he additionally gained 9 trophies with the membership.

Nonetheless, his second stint led to acrimony after a falling-out with Ten Hag, with Ronaldo subsequently terminating his contract, earlier than he attacked the Dutchman and mentioned he felt ‘betrayed’ by him.

And, talking on the Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast, the Al-Nassr star once more hit out at Ten Hag and was massively important of his conduct as United boss.

‘As I instructed you, Manchester, they should rebuild every little thing, in my view,’ he mentioned.

Cristiano Ronaldo has launched a brand new assault on Manchester United supervisor Erik ten Hag

Ronaldo left United in November 2022 following an acrimonious fall-out with the Dutchman

Talking in a blockbuster interview to Rio Ferdinand, Ronaldo criticised Ten Hag’s perspective

‘The coach, they are saying they can’t compete to win the League and Champions League. 

‘(As) Manchester United coach, you can not say that you simply’re not going to combat to win the League or Champions League. 

‘It’s a must to be, to mentally say, pay attention, perhaps we do not have that potential, however I can not say that. We’ll strive. It’s a must to strive.’

Since Ten Hag took over, United have completed third and eighth within the Premier League, though they’ve gained the Carabao Cup and FA Cup in that point, with the Dutchman repeatedly pointing to his trophy file in English soccer.

Nonetheless, issues have been removed from plane-sailing, with final season’s eighth place end United’s lowest within the Premier League period, whereas additionally they crashed out of the Champions League within the group stage.

There was important hypothesis over Ten Hag’s future in the summertime earlier than the INEOS-led footballing construction determined to stay with him.

He was then backed with reinforcements within the switch market and in addition inside his teaching employees, which included the arrival former United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy.

And Ronaldo felt that the appointment of the Dutchman – who scored 150 objectives for the membership in 219 video games – was a step in the suitable course, however he nonetheless provided a thinly-veiled dig at Ten Hag within the course of.

‘If Ten Hag hearken to Ruud, perhaps he can (assist himself),’ he defined. ‘I feel it may possibly assist loads as a result of he is aware of the membership and the membership ought to pay attention (to) the blokes who have been there. 

Ronaldo mentioned the appointment of his former team-mate Ruud van Nistelrooy was optimistic

Ronaldo claimed that having former gamers again on the teaching employees is vital for fulfillment

‘You [Rio] or Roy Keane or Paul Scholes or Gary Neville, no matter, Sir Alex Ferguson. You can not, you can not rebuild a membership with out data. Not guys who work in workplace. They perceive. 

‘The individuals who perceive the soccer, it was, 99 per cent is the individuals who have been there within the dressing room. They know find out how to cope with the gamers. It’s the individuals who perceive this stuff. 

‘So I consider that Ruud goes to assist as a result of he was contained in the membership. He is aware of the membership. He is aware of the followers. If the coach listens to him, I feel they will enhance a bit bit the membership.’

Regardless of the hints at positivity, Ronaldo reaffirmed his views that United – who haven’t gained the Premier League in 11 years – nonetheless have a protracted option to go to get again to the highest, with the 39-year-old massively damning of the membership when he performed a bombshell interview with Piers Morgan shortly earlier than leaving the membership in 2022.

Within the dialog with Morgan, Ronaldo had hit out on the lack of progress surrounding the membership’s infrastructure, one thing that has improved because the appointments of Dan Ashworth, Omar Berrada and Jason Wilcox to the brand new soccer construction after Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s partial takeover of the membership final yr.

Ronaldo claimed that Ten Hag should hearken to Van Nistelrooy with the intention to assist himself

Ronaldo additionally reaffirmed his ideas that United have a protracted option to go to get again to the highest

He added: ‘This membership wants time to rebuild as a result of it is nonetheless top-of-the-line golf equipment on the planet, however they should change. They perceive that. That is the one manner. 

‘That is why they present, they begin to change once more, the construction of the membership, the president, the infrastructures and every little thing. The homeowners of the membership. 

‘They’re investing within the coaching floor…So I am comfortable as a result of [things are changing]. I am not comfortable the best way all of it occurred, however in the identical manner, we can not management some factors of our life typically, nevertheless it’s performed, already performed.’

Take heed to the total Rio Meets Cristiano interview on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. RioFerdinandPresents.com