Gary Neville has criticised Cristiano Ronaldo for overshadowing Alejandro Garnacho’s breakthrough moment in a Manchester United shirt.
The teenage forward’s potential has been abundant for some time but last weekend’s dramatic winning goal at Fulham saw the Argentine announce himself on the big stage.
The dust had hardly settled on Garnacho’s winner, however, by the time Piers Morgan teased Ronaldo’s bombshell interview in which he slated his current manager Erik ten Hag and the decline United have suffered since Sir Alex Ferguson stepped down as manager.
Ronaldo also took aim at his former teammates Wayne Rooney and Neville, but the former England defender sidestepped that personal criticism and insisted the Portugal star should have held back his much publicised interview.
He told Sky Sports: ‘That young boy scored that goal at Fulham on Sunday and it wasn’t a similar goal to the one Cristiano scored all those years ago at Fulham but it was in the same area of the pitch and it felt like quite a significant moment in a young players’ career, as that goal was to Cristiano that day.
‘I would probably have rung up Piers Morgan and told him to pull it back to tomorrow, let’s let the young kid have his night tonight. Let’s let the young kid have his headlines.
‘I did think that to be fair and would have been wise. Personally I still think like a player used to and if I’m in a dressing room with a group of people where there were definitely fights at the time with the management or the club, we always had each other’s backs internally and we always looked after internally and made sure we stuck together.
‘On Sunday night his teammate has just scored a last minute winner, the young boy had just scored a hero goal in a great moment.
‘It would have been better for Cristiano to put back his announcement to Monday night off the back of that.’
On Ronaldo’s future, Neville added: ‘Over a period of many months stored up frustration, He has not done any interview at all this season, and I suspect he has been asked to do one after every single game each week and chosen not to.
‘Through that he has felt the need to come out and say his piece. I don’t know where he is going to go. He needs to go somewhere that accepts where he wans to go with the rest of his career to play out.
‘Because if you look at what happened at Juventus and look at what is happening at Manchester United, one thing can just happen but if it happens twice it becomes a pattern.
‘So he needs to choose a club that suits Cristiano and the end of his career so he has a level of control, because that’s what he wants. He is somebody who wants to be playing every single weekend irrespective of whether the team is better for it or the team is better for it.’
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