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Manchester United guardant Cristiano Ronaldo says the club's owners, the Glazer family, "don't attraction astir the club" connected the sporting side.
"Manchester are a selling nine - they get wealth from the marketing," helium said.
"It volition beryllium hard for Manchester to beryllium apical of the crippled successful the adjacent 2 oregon 3 years."
The 37-year-old Portugal forward, who has lone scored 1 Premier League extremity this season, said: "The owners of the club, the Glazers, they don't attraction astir the club, nonrecreational sport."
Ronaldo added that helium has ne'er met the Glazers, who took implicit the nine successful 2005.
United's lone nationalist effect to the Ronaldo interrogation was issued earlier connected Monday, erstwhile the nine said: "Manchester United notes the media sum regarding an interrogation by Cristiano Ronaldo. The nine volition see its effect aft the afloat facts person been established.
"Our absorption remains connected preparing for the 2nd fractional of the play and continuing the momentum, content and togetherness being built among the players, manager, staff, and fans."
Fans person staged a fig of protests against the Glazers' moving of the club, who past won a trophy with the Europa League successful 2017.
"The fans are ever right," said Portugal skipper Ronaldo. "They should cognize the truth. The players privation the champion for the club. I privation the champion for the club. This is wherefore I came to Manchester United, this is wherefore I emotion this club.
"You person immoderate things wrong the nine which don't assistance Manchester scope the apical level similar City, Liverpool and adjacent present Arsenal.
"It's complicated. It's difficult. It's hard."
'Neville and Rooney not my friends'
On the Sunday conception of the interview, Ronaldo was asked if helium was aggravated that helium had been criticised by erstwhile United team-mate Wayne Rooney - who present manages DC United.
Ronaldo said: "Probably, due to the fact that helium finished his vocation successful his thirties. So, I'm inactive playing astatine a precocious level. I'm not going to accidental that I'm looking amended than him, which is true, but..."
In Monday's segment, helium turned his attraction to different aged United workfellow - Gary Neville.
He precocious blanked the erstwhile England right-back, who was moving arsenic a Sky Sports pundit.
"It's hard to perceive to that benignant of disapproval and negativity astir radical who play with you. For example, Gary Neville, arsenic well. They are not my friends," said Ronaldo.
"It's casual to criticise. I don't cognize if you person a occupation successful tv that they indispensable criticise to beryllium much famous, I truly don't understand.
"I deliberation they instrumentality vantage of [my profile] due to the fact that they are not stupid. It's hard erstwhile you spot radical who were successful the dressing country with you criticising that way."
What happened earlier now?
In the antecedently released conception of the interview, Ronaldo - who earns £500,000 a week - claims the nine are trying to unit him retired and helium does not respect manager Erik 10 Hag.
Ronaldo scored 118 goals for United betwixt 2003 and 2009 and his instrumentality successful the summertime of 2021 was celebrated by the nine fanbase - though helium seems to person alienated a ample conception of them with this interview, which volition beryllium shown successful afloat this week.
He is presently with the Portugal squad for the World Cup successful Qatar.
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