Press reports revealed the reasons for Eric Ten Hag, coach of Manchester United, to keep his star Cristiano Ronaldo as a substitute since the beginning of the current season.
and sit down Ronaldo On the bench Manchester United In the last 3 matches of the team in Premier LeagueThe team won 2-1 over Liverpool and 1-0 over Southampton and Leicester City.
And the British newspaper, “Manchester Evening News”, reported in a report that Ten Hag asked Ronaldo to change his way of playing at the defensive level, by interfering with the balls more than last season, following the coach changed the way of playing.
Tin Hag’s requests caused Ronaldo to leave Manchester United during the summer Mercato months, as the player was shown to more than one club through his agent Jorge Mendes, most notably Napoli, Italy, Bayern Munich and Chelsea.
The report indicated that Ronaldo’s absence from Manchester United’s preparations for the new season had a role in Tin Hag’s decision to exclude him from the starting lineup.
“I will be a friend of Ronaldo and sometimes I will be his mentor,” the former Dutch coach of Ajax Amsterdam said before his team’s match with Arsenal, on Sunday, in the sixth round of the English Premier League.
He explained: “It depends on the situation, as everyone knows, he was not in the preparatory camp for the season, and you cannot be absent from the preparatory camp. This is a rule, especially for us, because the way we play this season is different from last season.”
It is noteworthy that Ronaldo finished last season as Manchester United’s top scorer with 24 goals, but his goals did not satisfy him in leading the team to qualify for the Champions League or achieve any championship.
