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RALF RANGNICK has responded to Cristiano Ronaldo’s claims that he is “not even a coach”.The Portuguese star made the damming statement in his controversial TalkTV interview with Piers Morgan.
Ralf Rangnick has responded to Cristiano Ronaldo’s criticism of him.Credit: Getty
The 63-year-old was appointed as Manchester United manager last season after the sacking of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
But Ronaldo told Morgan that he was not impressed with the move by the club.
He said: “If you’re not even a coach, how are you going to be the boss of Manchester United? 
“I’d never even heard of him.”
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Rangnick joined the club with a good reputation and is thought of as one of the founders of ‘gegenpressing’, the style of football implemented by Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp.
Rangnick was supposed to stay at United for longer but he left the club at the end of the season and is now the head coach of the Austrian national team.
The German seemed fairly unmoved by Ronaldo’s comments about him as he insisted it is not his job to judge the Portuguese forward.
He said as per Kronen Zeitung: “I’m the team boss of Austria’s national team, it’s not my job to judge that.
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“[It is] the task of Manchester United and the sports journalists”.
During the duo’s time together at the club Ronaldo scored 12 goals in 22 games.
Rangnick was not the only person to be on the end of verbal fire from Ronaldo as he also hit out at former teammate Wayne Rooney and he blasted people within the club’s hierarchy who “betrayed” him. More

MANCHESTER UNITED star Antony has revealed his three idols growing up including one of his current team-mates.The Brazilian winger is known for his tricky playing style, but he learned it all from watching his three favourite players as a kid.
Antony has named his three idols from when he was a youngster.Credit: Getty
Brazilians Ronaldinho and Neymar were two of the three that he watched.Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd
The third player is Antony’s current teammate Cristiano Ronaldo.Credit: Getty
The 22-year-old is still adapting to the Premier League since his £85.5million move to Old Trafford from Ajax in the summer.
However, he has caught the eye with some brilliant and at times unnecessary skill moves while on the pitch.
While still a child, Antony watched Ronaldinho, PSG’s Neymar, and current team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo on Youtube and tailored his game after them.
He told The Player’s Tribune: “I learned all the tricks from the legends. Ronaldinho, Neymar, Cristiano. I used to watch them on YouTube, thanks to my ‘uncle’ Toniolo.
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“He is not my blood uncle. He was our next-door neighbor. But he treated me like family.
“When I was little, he used to let me steal his WiFi so I could go on YouTube and get my football education.
“He even gave me my first video game. If Toniolo had two loaves of bread — it was one for him, the extra for us.
“This is what people don’t understand about the favela. For every one person doing bad, there’s two doing good.”
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The Red Devils winger also said how his skillful style of football would attract attention from all sorts of people including gangsters.
He added: “I always say that I grew up in the wrong place, but with the right people. When I was eight years old, I was playing in the square when the first angel crossed my path.
“This older guy was watching me doing my tricks against the gangsters like a crazy b******.” More

A NON-LEAGUE club have made a stunning offer for Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo.The Portuguese star wants out of the Red Devils but has yet to have any luck trying to find a new club.
Cristiano Ronaldo has been the subject of interest from a non-league side.Credit: Getty

Ronaldo’s future at Old Trafford is up in the air following his controversial interview with Piers Morgan, in which the club are now considering ripping up his contract.
The attacker has failed to gain regular game time this season under new manager Erik ten Hag and has often been on the bench.
Ronaldo has only managed one goal in his ten Premier League appearances this season.
The 37-year-old had been linked with moves to former club Sporting Lisbon, Chelsea and the MLS but no transfer developed.
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However, Blyth Spartans have jokingly offered Ronaldo a new home and have off Manchester United “a shy’s pie and a pint of Stella” for the once most expensive player in the world.
The club tweeted: “Hi Manchester United. We hear Cristiano Ronaldo is looking for a move?
“We’ll take him off your hands for a shy’s pie and a pint of Stella!”
Although, due to the attacker’s poor form this season, even Blyth fans are saying that they don’t want the five-time Ballon d’Or winner at their club.
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One tweeted: “Don’t think he’s enough to save use from the drop this season.”
Another said: “He ain’t getting the 7 off Richardson!”
A third added: “Poor mans Curtis Round.”
A fourth commented: “I’d sooner bring Robbiedinho out of retirement.”
Blyth are not the only club that have tried to sign a star from the Premier League, as Ashton United submitted a loan offer for Manchester City’s Erling Haaland.
The club have argued that they can help the striker maintain his fitness during the break for the World Cup, with his native Norway failing to qualify.
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CRISTIANO RONALDO has slammed Manchester United for still being stuck in the Fergie era but his exit could finally signal a way out.The Portuguese superstar, 37, all but ended his second spell at Old Trafford after his bombshell exclusive interview with Piers Morgan in Monday’s Sun.
Cristiano Ronaldo revealed that he felt “betrayed” by Manchester United in an interview with Piers Morgan.
Teddy Sheringham thinks that Ronaldo has to leave Manchester United.Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd
Ronaldo hit out at United for not moving on from the past, still pining for his former gaffer Sir Alex Ferguson, who retired in 2013.
But even his return from Juventus last year signalled clearly that United were a club with one eye still in the Fergie years, having not won a Premier League crown since the legendary Scot left Old Trafford.
And United great Teddy Sheringham says they must be serious about moving on in order to challenge for the title again.
The Champions League hero also knows they cannot put up with the Ronaldo sideshow if they are to kick on this season.
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He told SunSport: “It’s time for him to go. The Fergie years are long gone.
“They’ve got to move on. They’re chasing Manchester City and Liverpool now, that’s the main thing.
“You have got to get on a level with them and disruptions like this don’t make it easy. You want all your players rowing in the same direction.”
Ronaldo’s tirade against United and manager Erik ten Hag, claiming he felt “betrayed”, have left the club with only one option — he CANNOT return.
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Sheringham said: “Even the softest manager has got to say now, ‘OK, enough is enough. You don’t respect me. You’re openly saying it. Let’s part ways’.
“I thought he should have gone at the start of the season when he made it quite clear that he wasn’t happy.
“They’ve tried to make it work. It obviously hasn’t worked. His body language is still not great. It’s bad enough when you have an unhappy player, but an unhappy superstar…
“He’s going to rock the boat so let him go and use the money wisely.”
Ronaldo lambasted Dutchman Ten Hag for not showing him respect this season, having blocked a more amicable move away in the summer transfer window.
The No 7 said: “I don’t have respect for him because he doesn’t show respect for me. If you don’t have respect for me, I’m never gonna have respect for you.”
For Sheringham, who made over 150 United appearances under Sir Alex, that was the comment which marked the end.
But the former England striker also feels that respect goes both ways and must be earned through performances, something Ronaldo has not done this season.
Sheringham certainly earned his respect in United’s famous Treble-winning season in 1999.
He came off the bench against Bayern Munich, equalising at the end before Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s stunning winner to life the Champions League.
But after notching 18 Prem goals last season, Ronaldo has just one this term, in a 2-1 win at Everton, plus two goals in the Europa League against Sheriff Tiraspol.
Sheringham said: “The disrespect lines that he is coming out with that he doesn’t respect the manager, when he is coming out with that and openly saying that, it’s time for him to go.
“If you are still performing at the highest level then people respect you.
“If you’re doing things in and around the football club that you shouldn’t be, like walking off down the tunnel when you’re part of the team, that is when people lose their respect for you. It works hand-in-hand.”
An exit is the aim for Ronaldo after this near declaration of war on United.
While Ronaldo’s interview will have rocked Ten Hag and the Old Trafford chiefs, it gives them a clear way out of the mess and a chance to start planning for a future where they can never again be accused of being hung up on past glories.
*TEDDY SHERINGHAM will host the first of Budweiser’s official England Watch parties at The Outernet venue in London’s Tottenham Court Road for the Group B opener against Iran on Monday.
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CRISTIANO RONALDO believes Manchester United are THREE YEARS off challenging neighbours City for the Premier League title.The Portuguese star has caused shockwaves at Old Trafford after his explosive interview with Piers Morgan.
Watch ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored: 90 Minutes with Ronaldo’ on Wednesday and Thursday at 8pm on TalkTVCredit: TalkTV
The forward believes United are three years off challenging for the title againCredit: PA
He hit out at Manchester United for “betraying” him and making him feel like a “black sheep” as well as blaming him for everything going wrong at the club.
The striker, 37, revealed he does not respect manager Erik ten Hag and blasted the club’s lack of progress since Sir Alex Ferguson left in 2013 – the last time they won the title.
And even though he looks increasingly unlikely to be there much longer, he thinks it will take at least three years before United can challenge at the top again.
During the interview, which airs on on Wednesday and Thursday at 8pm on TalkTV, said: “You have some things inside the club which don’t help Manchester reach the top level as City, Liverpool and even now Arsenal, for example. Which is complicated, it’s difficult.
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“It’s hard in my opinion, it will be hard for Manchester to be in the top of the game. The next two, three years.”
He also slammed United’s controversial US owners the Glazer family — saying: “They don’t care about the club”.
He revealed he has never exchanged a single word with any of the family since his return to the club, despite being one of the world’s biggest soccer stars.
And he accused them of being more interested in United being a “marketing club” rather than a football club so they can pocket more cash.
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The five-time Ballon d’Or winner told Piers Morgan he believed the Glazers “don’t care” about the club and only see it as a cash cow.
He confirmed he had “never” spoken to the owners because they put the club in the hands of CEO Richard Arnold.
In one exchange Ronaldo said: “The owners of the club they, listen they don’t . . .”
Piers: “The Glazers?”
Ronaldo: “The Glazers, they don’t — they don’t care about, about the club. I mean, professional sport.

“As you know this, Manchester is a marketing club. They will get its money from the marketing, the sport, it’s . . . they don’t really care, in my opinion.”
Asked: “Do you ever talk to them, the Glazers?”, Ronaldo replied “Never. No. They give all the power to the president, sport director.”
Ronaldo also urged United fans to continue protesting against the Glazers’ ownership.
He said: “The fans, they’re always right. I think the fans should know the truth — should now that the players . . . we want the best for the club.
“I want the best of the club. This is why I am coming to Manchester United. This is why I love this club.”
Watch ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored: 90 Minutes with Ronaldo’, 8pm on Wednesday and Thursday on TalkTV. Find TalkTV on Sky 526, Virgin Media 606, Freeview 237, Freesat 217 and Sky Glass 508, live and on demand on the TalkTV app, streaming services and at Talk.TV More

MANCHESTER UNITED are ready to rip up Cristiano Ronaldo’s contract after his brutal criticism of the club.And close pal Rio Ferdinand claims that is exactly what the Portugal superstar wants.
Manchester United could RIP UP Cristiano Ronaldo’s contract.Credit: Reuters
It comes after Ronaldo’s interview with Piers Morgan.Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk
In the interview, Ronaldo said that he did not respect manager Erik Ten Hag.Credit: Getty
In an bombshell TalkTV interview with Piers Morgan, Ronaldo delivered a damning assessment of the Red Devils and revealed he has no respect for boss Erik ten Hag.
Ferdinand said: “You can’t defend that from Cristiano Ronaldo. I don’t feel there is any way back, I don’t feel the club will take him back and I don’t think he wants to come back.
“Deep down — and I know it for a fact — this has all been manufactured for one thing and that’s for him to leave the club.
“Up to this interview I would defend him and say the club have a big responsibility to communicate better. How are the club going to allow Ronaldo to come back and undermine their current manager? They can’t.”
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Ferdinand, a former team-mate of Ronaldo, added: “The love affair with United is finished. The book has been closed.
“He’s snookered the club and put them into a position where there’s no way back.
“Whether anyone at the club wanted to keep Cristiano . . . they can’t now after what he said.
“If the interview was two minutes long — not an hour or two — and he said the comment ‘I don’t respect the manager’, regardless of anything else, that is going to be the reason why he goes.”
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In today’s Sun, we also reveal his criticism of the Glazers for their controversial ownership.
The veteran star trained with Portugal yesterday ahead of the World Cup, despite missing United’s last two games through ‘illness’. But he is unlikely to ever wear a Red Devils shirt again as he faces being ditched by United while he’s away in Qatar.
Furious boss Ten Hag met yesterday with Old Trafford chiefs and the club are now exploring their legal options.
United believe Ronaldo is undermining the progress being made under their new Dutch boss and the togetherness he has fostered in the camp.
Several of his team-mates are also finished with the 37-year-old after his latest outburst.
A club statement alluded to the spirit Ten Hag is creating and not wanting anything to divert them from their bid to get back to the top of the English game.
It read: “Our focus remains on preparing for the second half of the season and continuing the momentum, belief and togetherness being built among the players, manager, staff, and fans.”
If Ronaldo is released by United, there will be a few clubs considering signing him on a free transfer.
His first club Sporting Lisbon are keen, while Chelsea owner Todd Boehly may reignite his interest from the summer. MLS clubs are also keeping tabs. More