PIERS MORGAN labelled Erik ten Hag a “total fraud” after reminding Manchester United of Cristiano Ronaldo’s sizzling form.
Morgan pointed out old boy Ronaldo has netted 43 times this year – whereas Ten Hag’s Red Devils are struggling for form and goals.
Sunday’s 3-0 home humbling by Manchester City was United’s fifth defeat in ten Premier League games this season.
The Red Devils are only eighth after scoring just 11 Prem goals.
And Ronaldo’s latest successor Rasmus Hojlund has so far drawn a total blank in the league – just like Wout Weghorst did.
Hojlund is goalless from seven Prem matches despite United paying Atalanta £72million for the 20-year-old in the summer.
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Last season’s surprise loanee Weghorst ended up with no goals in 17 league games.
Sun columnist Morgan posted: “As Manchester United get humiliated by City at home, a reminder that Erik Ten Hag drove @Cristiano out of the club and said he’d lose no sleep over it… and that the same @Cristiano has since scored 43 goals for club & country this year.
“The guy’s a total fraud.”
Many fans agreed with the talkSPORT presenter and Arsenal fan, whose interview with Ronaldo last November eventually led to the superstar’s departure over New Year.
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But others reckon a bigger factor is the long-term issue of the club’s owners, the Glazers.
Five-time Ballon d’Or winner Ron, 38, is on fire for his Saudi club Al-Nassr as well as reaching 127 goals from 203 games for Portugal.
One supporter posted: “Thank you for your reminder Piers” and another added: “Ronaldo deserves an apology from Eric Ten Hag”.
“Total fraud, I agree,” said a third.
A fourth fan compared Ron’s falling out with Ten Hag to that of an England winger currently frozen out by the same manager.
That supporter wrote: “Cristiano Ronaldo and Jadon Sancho were right.”
One observer said of Ten Hag: “He has this overhyped ego…he is still waiting for apologies from Sancho.”
But some fans took a deeper look at United’s problems.
Such views included: “As long as the owners are the same and Ten Hag is the coach, the dream theatre team will never wake up.”
But a few fans questioned whether Ron should ever have come back in August 2021 for his 16-month second spell at Old Trafford.
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One said: “Ronaldo’s return was the worst thing to happen.”
And another argued: “Ole (Gunnar Solskjaer) agreed. It destabilized the team Ole had built. I stand on this.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
