{"id":11758,"date":"2022-11-14T20:44:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T15:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=257080"},"modified":"2022-11-14T21:10:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T15:40:03","slug":"manchester-united-makes-official-statement-on-cristiano-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/manchester-united-makes-official-statement-on-cristiano-ronaldo\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United makes official statement on Cristiano Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United has issued a statement stating that they won\u2019t respond until they are familiar with the interview\u2019s details and full content. The Reds further stated that they will, as of now, will stay focused on preparing for the upcoming leftover season.<\/p>\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo took part in an interview where he criticised Manchester United and manager Erik ten Hag; the club will seek legal counsel before responding to the 37-year-old\u2019s allegations; According to <em>Sky Sports News<\/em>, the attitude and timing of the interview left Ten Hag and the United players feeling extremely disappointed. In an interview with <em>TalkTV<\/em> that was published on Sunday night by <em>The Sun<\/em>, Ronaldo criticised the team and manager Erik ten Hag, whom the player claims he has \u201cno respect\u201d for.<\/p>\n<p>The forward claimed that he feels \u201cbetrayed\u201d by the Premier League club for attempting to force him out of the team. The Portuguese acknowledged that United have made \u201czero progress\u201d since Sir Alex Ferguson\u2019s retirement in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the following statement was made by United on Monday in response to the interview: \u201cManchester United notes the media coverage regarding an interview by Cristiano Ronaldo.\u201d United, in an official statement further wrote, \u201cThe club will consider its response after the full facts have been established.\u201d As per\u00a0<em>Sky Sports,\u00a0<\/em>senior club members are holding discussions about how to handle the player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronaldo took part in an interview where he criticised Manchester United and manager Erik ten Hag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[321,249],"class_list":["post-11758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-manchester-united"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}