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Hypocrisy about Manchester United betrays motivation behind bombshell interview – Cristiano Ronaldo

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Let thee who is without sin cast the first stone.

Cristiano Ronaldo threw enough rocks last week to construct a dam and his indulgent, self-serving monologue with Piers Morgan was a string of contradictions. If you let anyone ramble on for 90 minutes without any sort of pushback or challenge they’re bound to chat some nonsense, but Ronaldo spouted enough to make even the Hoover Dam crack.

With one breath he calls out today’s young footballers for not listening to advice, the next he says he doesn’t like giving advice. With one breath he says he isn’t going to call Wayne Rooney ugly, the next he does. With one breath he says he doesn’t listen to criticism after using an oxygen tank’s worth it hitting back at the ex-teammates who have criticized him. He says he leads by example at the very moment he is throwing his manager under the bus just weeks after refusing to come onto the pitch.

Perhaps what makes one of his most galling contradictions sting even further is because, for once, he was actually right about something. Ronaldo’s one tactic to actually save face in front of supporters was to take aim at the Glazer family’s ownership of the club. There isn’t a United fan out there who couldn’t agree with what he had to say.

“The owners of the club listen, the Glazers, they don’t care about the club,” he told Piers Morgan. “I mean professional sport as you know Manchester is a marketing club, they will get is money from the marketing, the sports they don’t really care, in my opinion.”

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He has correctly identified one of the key aspects that frustrate the fanbase so much about the way United has been run over the last decade, where the focus has been to make money through as many different revenue streams as possible to keep shareholders happy with little concern being given to the deterioration of the team on the pitch and club infrastructure.

Yet it was too little, too late. If Ronaldo had come out and aired his own dissatisfaction with the ownership last year, when he himself was still in fine goal-scoring form, it would have shown that he actually did care about the club’s plight and the blow would have been a significant one to the Glazers when the heat was turned up to 11 on them. Instead, it has just been seen as a naked attempt to keep fans on the side while he burns all the bridges.

What makes Ronaldo seem even more out of touch is that since he has criticized United for their focus on commercial activities, he himself has indulged in the exact same behavior. He has become the latest shyster to hawk the clear scam that is NFTs and then has got himself a waxwork model in Times Square.

This isn’t criticizing Ronaldo or any player for supplementing their significant incomes with a bit of easy advertising (though anyone shilling NFTs needs to have a long look in the mirror), but to do it so brazenly after scorching the club for doing so is irony of the highest order.

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It just shows that his argument on that front, like a lot of his others, holds little weight and unthreads like a cheap jumper at the slightest tug at the seam. The timing of his interview and his own commercial activity in the aftermath suggests that he’s not really bothered about United doing the same, he’s just using it as a gambit to get his own way.

It betrays the motivation behind the whole nauseating affair, he wants to move to a new club and since the traditional way of doing so – finding one that wants to buy you – didn’t work last summer he has resorted to the nuclear option.

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