In the preview of the classic between Manchester United y Liverpool played on Monday in Old Trafford, Cristiano Ronaldo was the protagonist of a unprecedented moment when he approached the sector of the land where several panelists from the chain were Sky Sports to greet one by one, except the former footballer Jamie Carragher. Who referred to what happened was Rio Ferdinandformer partner of CR7.
“Meeting Cristiano Ronaldo, Jamie Carragher He’s talked a lot about him being the problem and stuff like that. Trust me, Cristiano would have seen those comments and would have thought to go there and let him know with a little… he needed to calm him down, humiliate him and expose him live on television”, he explained in dialogue with FIVE.
The former English defender assured that the Portuguese striker had already planned to do that before going out to warm up with his teammates on the pitch at Old Trafford. “Cristiano is very calculating, he is very aware of what is happening, he is not someone who sits at home and disconnects”.
Ferdinand was Ronaldo’s teammate during the striker’s first stage in the Red Devils Between 2003 and 2009 he explained that this attitude of the Portuguese has to do with his way of being: “I have always said it, he uses social media and people’s feedback as fuel to push himself to be the best, he’s done it since he was a kid”.
In this sense, he recalled something that happened a few years ago: “He knew of anyone who spoke ill of him in the media. Once he told me about Gary Lineker because he is a big fan of Messi. I thought: ‘Brother, you’re not even in this country, how can you see the images?’ He knows everything.”
On this occasion, the anger of the former Real Madrid was born by the declarations of Carragher, who he had assured that “no club” wanted to count on him, after Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Atlético de Madrid and PSG rejected his possible hiring. In this context, the critic and his target crossed paths on the field of play in the run-up to the duel between United and Liverpool for the third date of the Premier League.
Con David Jonesthe presenter of Sky Sportsas host, CR737, came to greet the sector where the analysts were, all former luminaries of British football, such as Gary Neville, Roy Keane and the aforementioned Carragher. It was there that the Portuguese took revenge by hugging all the panelists, except for the former Liverpool center-back, whom he left standing, with his hand outstretched.
Carragher has always defined himself as an admirer of Lionel Messi. He even got to debate on TV with Gary Neville, defender of CR7. “You only have 10 minutes to win a match, who do you choose, Messi or Cristiano?” It was the slogan they launched almost a year ago. There, the former Liverpool was forceful: “Messi has a better goalscoring record than Ronaldo and is also a playmaker. Messi can lead a match. Ronaldo can’t do that. And it’s not a criticism. Messi, as a player, takes you to a place where you really can’t believe what you’re seeing. What Ronaldo does are things that other players can do. You’ve seen someone else being very good at heading, you’ve seen someone else being very good at running, taking free kicks, all of those things. Messi does things that we have never seen before. The assists, directing the match from his position”.
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