Manchester United literally pay him his salary for being respectful. I can guarantee that this is a contractual obligation of Ronaldo. And he has violated his contract.
Apart from that you fail to grasp that United is paying this person millions for kicking against a ball. It's not some Brazilian dude from the favelas toiling away in the mud of the Amazon trying to find gold for his company and telling the world of the inhumane conditions he is working in. That Ronaldo even has the audacity to be disrespectful is a slap in the face of everyone trying to earn a living under dire circumstances.
It's utter garbage behaviour.
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Ronaldo is earning a million dollars a week.
He is not "suffering".
Ronaldo is the biggest name in football and probably all of sport. He has enough power and credibility to push back against the club and coach when they humiliate him and let the press go at him. Very few people ever get to be in this position where they can do something like this. Everyone bends over because of the power disparity not some false sense of loyalty to authority.
If Ronaldo isn't lying about how they've treated him, I am glad he is standing up and giving his side of the story. I don't understand why you think he should just bend over and take whatever they throw at him just because he is rich or its a good salary. United are the biggest club name in football not minnows and they've made millions off of him too. If the club tried to push him out and paint him as trying to leave, and then let the media have a go at him for missing pre-season when they knew he was in the hospital with his daughter and then proceeded to bench him and put him on for last 3 minutes to provoke him to leave, then they're reaping what they have sown. 100% glad he can stand up and tell them to get fucked.
United fans will be divided because they love the club, and management are who currently run the club, but at the same time they see he has a point. Its a more intense version of how we feel about Agnelli & Allegri. You wanna support Juve but these fucks currently own/run Juve so if you want them to fail you want Juve to fail.
And they'll muddy the waters to turn fans against him. You wanna support United then thats Ten Hag, Glazers, Murtough no matter how shitty they treat him and how low they take the club. They are United. No player larger than club. etc..
Watch how many times they conflate the manager with United. Disrespect the manager = disrespect the club. Disrespect the manager = disrespect the fans.
The manager is just another employee who just joined. He is not United.