Man. United player Ronaldo accuses Gary Neville of using him for fame after the football pundit criticized him

Cristiano Ronaldo has accused his former teammate, Gary Neville of using him to boost his personal profile. 

The claims come inside the Portuguese’s bombshell interview with Piers Morgan by which he took purpose at Manchester United, the membership’s coach Erik ten Hag, Ralf Rangnick, and lots of others others. 

Ronaldo lately blanked his former team-mate pitchside at Outdated Trafford on account of the Sky pundit’s supposed criticism of him. 

In a contemporary clip of the interview launched on Monday night, Ronaldo accused his former team-mate of criticizing him solely to spice up his personal fame earlier than declaring him and Wayne Rooney not buddies of his. 

Neville and Rooney have each criticized the Portuguese in current weeks for his more and more petulant habits in addition to his refusal to return on in opposition to Tottenham final month. 

Ronaldo advised Morgan: ‘To pay attention as ex-colleagues or team-mates criticize you, once they solely see one perspective. It is simple. 

Cristiano says he’s shocked by the criticism of his colleagues

‘It is simple to criticize, I do not know when you have a job in tv that they have to criticize to be extra well-known. I actually do not perceive it. 

‘It is arduous if you see individuals who was within the dressing room with you criticizing that method.’ 

Morgan questioned Ronaldo on whether or not Neville’s criticism got here from a spot by which he felt he may increase his personal title by doing such. 

‘I feel they benefit from that as a result of they don’t seem to be silly,’ Ronaldo mentioned. ‘I am the No 1 adopted man on the planet. It is not by coincidence.’

The brand new excerpts of the interview come amid hypothesis that Ronaldo’s future at Manchester United is over after his agent Jorge Mendes, met with Bayern Munich final week over a doable switch. 

Within the earlier excerpts, Ronaldo additionally expressed his anger at being criticized by former team-mate and strike accomplice Rooney.

‘Me too (I am shocked about this). Piers, I do not perceive. It’s best to ask the inquiries to him,’ he mentioned. ‘I do not know. I do not know why he criticized me so badly.

‘In all probability (it is jealously). In all probability – as a result of he completed his profession in his 30s. I am nonetheless taking part in at a excessive degree; I am not going to say that I am wanting higher than him, which is true. 

‘It is arduous to take heed to that form of criticism and negativity from individuals who play with you, for instance Gary Neville as properly.

‘Individuals can have their very own opinion however they do not know what goes contained in the coaching floor at Carrington – and even my life. They should not pay attention to at least one perspective – they need to take heed to my perspective as properly, as a result of it is easy to criticize [when] you do not know the entire story,’ he went on to say.

‘They aren’t my buddies, they’re colleagues. We play collectively, they are not coming, we’re not ever having dinner collectively.’