Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest players of all time and is a legend of the game, but he can also be a massive crybaby.
Criticism can be aimed at anyone, no matter how good you are or how much you’ve accomplished, and responding to this criticism is a good way of seeing the mindset of players.
Some respond with silence and let their performances do the talking. Others speak out, but then deliver on the pitch, while some throw a massive strop.
Ronaldo has both responded on the pitch and thrown a tantrum in his long and glittering career, and we’ve picked out the best incidents where he had a moan after being criticised.
Leaving early
Erik ten Hag has attempted to be diplomatic around the issue of Cristiano Ronaldo, treading carefully around the awkward fact that the club’s top-earner and most high-profile player isn’t an obvious fit for the high-intensity type of football he’s attempting to instil at Old Trafford.
Ronaldo tried to find an exit route in the summer but ended up staying put.
The 37-year-old set the tone for a frosty relationship by leaving early in United’s pre-season friendly match at home to Rayo Vallecano.
“It’s unacceptable, for everybody. I tell them. That it is unacceptable and that we are a team, so a selection. That you have to stay until the end,” Ten Hag responded.
The Dutch coach has since used the 37-year-old veteran intermittently but left him out for some of United’s biggest games. Ronaldo was dropped against Liverpool and was unused as a substitute in the 6-3 defeat to Manchester City.
“Marcus [Rashford] was ill at the weekend, he was not available for 90 minutes,” Ten Hag told MUTV of his decision to choose Rashford ahead of Ronaldo against Tottenham.
“Otherwise, he would have started on Sunday. You saw at the moment Marcus came in, we were getting more dynamic in front. That’s what we need today, to break the lines, but also to build up this game and in the end, we know we have a threat from the bench with Cristiano [Ronaldo] to finish the game.”
That wasn’t direct criticism of Ronaldo, but you can’t imagine he was happy. We received confirmation of how he felt in the closing stages when Ronaldo got up off the bench and walked down the touchline and into the dressing room. According to The Athletic, he left the stadium and didn’t hang about to celebrate his team-mates’ 2-0 victory over Tottenham.
“I will deal with that tomorrow”
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