Sajad Fadhel

🚨 Erik ten Hag to ESPN NL: “Since Real Madrid sold Cristiano Ronaldo to Juventus, it was effectively over”. “In fact, Real Madrid’s greatest strength is that they always know the perfect time to part ways with a player… and that was the case too”.

🚨 Erik ten Hag to ESPN NL: “In my opinion, Cristiano Ronaldo is undoubtedly a fantastic player and one of the greatest players of all time”. “But the truth is that, over the last seven or eight years, he has NO longer been capable of performing at that level”.

🚨 Erik ten Hag: “Cristiano Ronaldo was telling the players: save your legs at training”. “I understand it when you are top fit… …but first you have to train yourself to get into the right fitness levels”, told @lauriewhitwell on @TheAthleticFC.

🚨 Erik ten Hag: “Cristiano Ronaldo let the team down, and he let me down, because we planned with him”, told @TheAthleticFC. “I flew out to Portugal to speak with him about what I was aiming for before I came to United”. “He’s one of the best in history. I respected him a lot. But as a manager, I had to make a rational decision”.

🚨 Erik ten Hag on Cristiano Ronaldo in training: “He ran neither in possession nor out of possession. The reason was because he didn’t prepare himself”. “Every top team has to embrace the top player, but the top player has to work for the team…”, told @TheAthleticFC.