Former Manchester United player Paul Ince has described Cristiano Ronaldo as a “disturbance” to his teammates, noting that Lionel Messi, the Paris Saint-Germain star, would not act like his Portuguese counterpart.
Uncertainty surrounds the future of Cristiano Ronaldo with Manchester United this season, as he missed the preparatory round for the team due to family problems, while a group of clubs refused to sign the historic Champions League top scorer because of his age (37 years) and his high salary.
Manchester United coach Eric Ten Hag’s decision to keep Ronaldo on the bench in the team’s 2-1 win over Liverpool on Monday has fueled speculation that the days of the five-times world’s best player at Manchester United are drawing to a close.
Paul Ince, a Manchester United player between the end of the eighties and the mid-nineties, said in statements to “Boyle Sports”: Ronaldo must leave Manchester United, he has become a source of inconvenience and distraction for the rest of the players, you will not see Lionel Messi behave the way Cristiano does.
He continued: If Ronaldo was in the dressing room during my time, and Roy Keane and Steve Bruce acted in this way, we would not tolerate him and we would not let him get away with his act.
Ince, the former England national team player between 1992-2000, believes that Ten Hag’s decision to remove Ronaldo was important, and added: Ronaldo’s staying on the bench in the Liverpool match was very important, because he made it clear to everyone that life goes on without Ronaldo.
