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Manchester United head coach Erik ten Hag has brushed apart Cristiano Ronaldo’s newest feedback as he continues to dam out the criticism surrounding his tenure.
Ronaldo, who just lately surpassed 900 profession targets in the course of the worldwide break, returned to Outdated Trafford in 2021.
The Portugal worldwide netted 27 targets in 55 appearances in all competitions throughout one and a half seasons however fell out of favour below Ten Hag earlier than becoming a member of Al Nassr in December 2022.
In his solely full marketing campaign throughout his second stint at United, nobody registered extra purpose contributions within the Premier League for United than Ronaldo (21, 18 targets and three assists), whereas he additionally produced an anticipated targets tally (xG) of 17.75, additionally the very best within the Purple Devils squad.
And talking to former United team-mate Rio Ferdinand on a podcast, Ronaldo mentioned Ten Hag had been fallacious to say in a pre-season interview that the membership have been “a great distance away” from successful the Premier League.
When questioned in regards to the veteran ahead’s feedback, Ten Hag mentioned: “No, he mentioned this, in case you learn the article very properly.
“He’s entitled to his opinion. It’s OK. He’s far-off in Saudi, far-off from Manchester.”
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United headed into the worldwide break off the again of successive defeats within the Premier League, the most recent coming in a 3-0 humbling in opposition to arch rivals Liverpool.
The Purple Devils have now misplaced as many as two of their first three league video games in a season for the second time below the Dutchman’s tenure (additionally 2022-23).
They final misplaced three of their first 4 again in 1986-87, when Ron Atkinson was sacked and changed by Sir Alex Ferguson.
Whereas United are unbeaten of their final 12 Premier League away video games in opposition to the Saints, the encounter at St. Mary’s appears a seismic one for Ten Hag’s future on the membership.
The 2-week break because the Liverpool defeat has seen Ten Hag’s future broadly mentioned, however the Dutchman insisted that the surface noise didn’t trouble him.
“It doesn’t impression me. I do know the place we’re within the course of and what we now have to do and the place we’re going,” Ten Hag mentioned.
“I’ve mentioned earlier than we’re nonetheless in a transition interval.
“We’ve got to combine quite a lot of younger gamers within the group and nonetheless need to take care of accidents and produce gamers again into the group.
“Earlier than anybody thinks about excuses, no, we now have to win each recreation. I do know that. The group is aware of that. It doesn’t matter who is obtainable.”
