“No coach wants to play football with Cristiano Ronaldo”- Antonio Cassano’s old comments resurface as Manchester United continue to struggle with the 37-year-old


“No coach wants to play football with Cristiano Ronaldo”- Antonio Cassano’s old comments resurface as Manchester United continue to struggle with the 37-year-old

Cristiano Ronaldo

Manchester United re-signed Cristiano Ronaldo from Juventus last season as the player made a sensational return to where it all started, Old Trafford. Ronaldo even enjoyed the perfect season on the paper, with 24 goals in 39 appearances across all competitions.

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However, there has been a negative impact of having the Portuguese striker that the Red Devils had been warned about but chose to ignore. Former Italy striker, Antonio Cassano warned of how Cristiano Ronaldo destroyed Juventus and would do the same to Manchester United but they signed him anyway.

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“Cristiano Ronaldo only thinks of his goals” – Cassano on the Manchester United striker

Juventus’ Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after he scored his first goal since he joined Juventus during the Italian Serie A football match Juventus vs Sassuolo on September 16, 2018 at the Juventus stadium in Turin. / AFP PHOTO / Miguel MEDINA

Speaking about the player back when Cristiano Ronaldo was still at Juventus, he said to the Mirror (via Express), “You can’t have a coach who wants to play football with Cristiano Ronaldo. He’s a brake on Pirlo (the then manager at Juventus).”

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“Cristiano only thinks about his goals and records. If you’re president and you want to start a new cycle, you cannot give a rookie coach the responsibility of coaching someone like Ronaldo.”

“Juventus got rid of a coach [Massimiliano Allegri] who, in the last 20 or 30 years, has produced the best football in Italy and his big problem was one: Cristiano Ronaldo. It was for [Maurizio] Sarri and it is for Pirlo.”

“Juve already got burned last year because Sarri was unable to find the right chemistry with him and some other players, so what do you do? You take another coach who would like to play football and you still have Cristiano Ronaldo as a blocker for that. If you have chosen the path of [playing a certain type of] football, Ronaldo is not good.”

Cristiano Ronaldo scored 101 goals in 134 games for Juventus in 3 seasons. He also helped the club to 3 Serie A titles and a Coppa Italia. However, according to Antonio Cassano, the player was to be blamed for the decline that came at Juventus following his exit. And now the same will happen to Manchester United.

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