Renowned broadcaster Piers Morgan believes Cristiano Ronaldo is absolutely sick and tired of having to carry Manchester United in the previous season. Ronaldo has asked to leave Red Devils ahead of the next season as he wants to play in the Champions League.
The talisman striker had joined Manchester United back in the summer before the last season and he did a terrific job for the team.
However, Morgan reckons Ronaldo is disappointed with the dedication of young players at the club. It is well known that Ronaldo gives more than 100% in the training sessions despite savoring all the success and turning 37. Morgan revealed he joined Manchester United as he thought of winning big things with the club.
Morgan said on Drive (via talkSPORT): “I’ve had a lot of chats with him about this and I know that his frustration has been boiling and boiling and boiling throughout the year. Remember, he came to Manchester United again because he believed that he could win things with them and believed that he was going to be a missing cog in the wheel and they’d not only qualify for the Champions League, but that they might even win the league.
“I think he was incredibly disappointed by the general level of dedication, hard graft, enthusiasm and will to win, not to mention the hunger of that Man United squad. Particularly some of the younger players.”
On the other hand, Morgan revealed that Ronaldo told him he was asking for advice from players like Paul Scholes, Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs and Rio Ferdinand during his first stint with the club but he got the impression the youngsters were not keen to learn from him at Red Devils.
“He gave quite a cryptic interview at the start of the year when he said that when he was a teenager at United he was constantly asking advice from Paul Scholes, Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs and Rio Ferdinand – all of these older, brilliant players who were there.”
He added: “He was soaking up the advice but I got the impression from the interview that he gave that he’s not been getting that at United. They don’t really want to hear it. When you look at those younger United players, there’s a lot of talent there but do they have anything like the drive needed, which comes from within, as Ronaldo says.”
The Portuguese striker had scored 24 goals in 38 matches across all competitions for Manchester United in the previous season.
Ronaldo scored 18 of those 24 goals in the Premier League and finished as the team’s leading goal-scorer. In fact, in a lot of matches, Ronaldo was the team’s lone warrior and led the team to victory single-handedly.
“He ended up scoring 24 goals last season, 18 in the league, second behind Son and Salah. He scored one more league goal than Harry Kane, who is nearly 10 years younger than him.
“This guy is supposedly supposed to be the problem at Manchester United. He’s not the problem, and he’s going to leave, I think, because he’s absolutely sick and tired of having to carry that squad.”
