Manchester United striker Cristiano Ronaldo has revealed why he refused to come off the bench and stormed down the tunnel in a game against Tottenham.
The second half of Ronaldo’s interview with Piers Morgan was released on Thursday evening.
In this section, he started off by referring to Wayne Rooney – who has been critical of him in recent months – as ‘one of the rats’. Lovely.
Ronaldo attracted plenty of criticism last month when he stormed down the tunnel before full-time in a Premier League match at home to Spurs.
It was later revealed that United manager Erik ten Hag had asked Ronaldo to come off the bench for the final three minutes, but he refused and then decided to leave the pitch.
The 37-year-old admits that he does feel some “regret” from doing that, but said Ten Hag’s decision to substitute him on with three minutes left was “unacceptable” and “provoked” him to walk down the tunnel in disgust.
“I will be honest with you, it’s something that I regret to left from the stadium,” Ronaldo told Piers Morgan for TalkTV.
“Probably, or maybe no, I don’t know. It’s difficult to tell you 100% but let’s say I regret, but in the same way I felt provoked by the coach.
“Not allowed for me, a coach to put me in three minutes in a game. Sorry, I’m not that kind of player. I know what I can give to the teams.”
Ronaldo added: “I think it was a strategy from the club for me to react that way.
“I was very, very, very, very disappointing for the communication of Manchester United. To be honest, I never had a problem with any club, with any coach.
“And they suspend me three days, which I felt it was a lot – and the level of sport, clubs, I felt a lot. It was a shame.”
Ronaldo went into some depth about the three-day suspension following his lack of respect for Ten Hag.
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He said the punishment was humiliating and even had to explain the situation to his son.
“But I remember arriving home and Cristiano see me and say ‘Daddy do not go to the game?’ I say ‘No, because the club punish me with three days’.
“And he did like (laughs). ‘How they’re going to punish you if you are the best player in the world and you’re not gonna play?’ I said ‘No I’m not gonna play because I have not been behave’. And he look at me like, ‘My Daddy not behave, what?’
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