{"id":940048,"date":"2026-10-20T12:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940048\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:40:12","slug":"erik-ten-hag-accuses-cristiano-ronaldo-of-letting-down-manchester-united-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940048\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik ten Hag accuses Cristiano Ronaldo of \u2018letting down\u2019 Manchester United | Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erik ten Hag has claimed Cristiano Ronaldo \u201clet the team down\u201d during their time together at Manchester United. Ten Hag has also alleged that promises made by United\u2019s owners went unfulfilled, leading to his sacking by the club in October 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ronaldo returned for a second spell at United in August 2021 and was already at the club when Ten Hag was appointed in April 2022 as Ole Gunnar Solskj\u00e6r\u2019s successor<\/a>. The relationship between the pair quickly broke down, however, with Ronaldo refusing to come on as a substitute in a win against Tottenham in October 2022 before he then publicly criticised the club in a TV interview<\/a>. The forward\u2019s contract was mutually terminated the following month.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe let the team down, and he let me down, because we planned with him,\u201d Ten Hag said in an interview with the Athletic. \u201cHe\u2019s one of the best in football history. I respected him a lot. But at that time, as a manager, I had to make a rational decision and keep the players I admire in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ten Hag claims Ronaldo did not complete the full run that players were set after they were beaten 4-0 by Brentford early in his reign<\/a>. \u201cI confronted him with this,\u201d Ten Hag said. \u201cMany times I say: \u2018Ronnie, everyone wants to work for you to bring you in the right position, but if you can\u2019t bring yourself in the box, you can\u2019t score.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Ten Hag was sacked only five months after he won the FA Cup<\/a> and then signed a contract extension. The Dutchman claimed in the discussions with the club\u2019s owners about his new deal that he was made promises which were not kept, and he was left \u201cembarrassed\u201d when Scott McTominay was sold to Napoli without his consent. He said: \u201cThey promised me loyalty, they promised me backing, they promised communication, that we get aligned. We spoke about the issues. But the promises, they didn\u2019t keep.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said: \u2018No selling Scott McTominay.\u2019 And in the end they sold him. I got, of course, very embarrassed and disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erik ten Hag has claimed Cristiano Ronaldo \u201clet the team down\u201d during their time together at Manchester United.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-940048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}