It was announced in November that Cristiano Ronaldo had his Manchester United contract terminated.
This came after Ronaldo’s explosive interview with Piers Morgan that saw him take aim at the club, the manager and many more.
Ronaldo also refused to come on as a substitute vs Tottenham before leaving Old Trafford early.
In a statement put out at the end of November, Manchester United wrote: “Cristiano Ronaldo is to leave Manchester United by mutual agreement, with immediate effect.
“The club thanks him for his immense contribution across two spells at Old Trafford, scoring 145 goals in 346 appearances, and wishes him and his family well for the future.
“Everyone at Manchester United remains focused on continuing the team’s progress under Erik ten Hag and working together to deliver success on the pitch.”
“He first arrived and we went on tour and the training sessions we had, he demands: ‘you do it or you’re out.’ You don’t play,” Fernandes said on Rio Ferdinand’s Between The Lines.
“Everyone was a little bit like in the beginning: ‘will he do that or not? If a big player doesn’t do what he wants will he pull him apart or not?’ And he did that many times, he did it with Cristiano, with Jadon, with Marcus.
“Marcus was probably in the best form against Wolves – he did something wrong and the manager just pulled him out. Everyone was like ‘wow’. In the first moments we were like ‘wow, he is our main man and we need him’.
“I was sat by David [De Gea] and I said ‘this has to be like this because if not, the younger ones will think like ‘if he does nothing to him, the next one he will do nothing to me too.’”
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