Ronaldo's icy snub for ex-teammate TV pundit

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Cristiano Ronaldo has travel nether a batch of disapproval this play and he's intelligibly been listening.

On Monday, the five-time Ballon d'Or victor snubbed erstwhile teammate Gary Neville up of Manchester United's Premier League lucifer against West Ham pursuing caller disapproval from the tv pundit.

Neville had criticised Ronaldo's "unacceptable" behaviour successful United's caller league triumph implicit Tottenham Hotspur wherever the 37-year-old appeared to garbage to travel connected arsenic a substitute earlier leaving the crippled early.

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The Portuguese planetary was subsequently dropped by manager Erik Ten Hag and made to bid with the younker squad for 3 days earlier returning to the first-team squad.

In the build-up to Sunday's match, Ronaldo walked implicit to the Sky Sports pundits, giving erstwhile teammate Louis Saha and chap pundit Jamie Redknapp hugs but did not admit Neville, who helium played with during his archetypal spell astatine United.

Neville is not the archetypal pundit to person the acold enarthrosis from Ronaldo, who has recovered himself successful and retired of the United squad this season.

Neville's chap Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher has antecedently received akin attraction and took to Twitter to enactment his colleague: "Welcome to the, blanked by Ronaldo nine @GNev2."

In a video posted connected Twitter by Sky Sport's pundit Micah Richards, Neville appeared to laughter disconnected the snub and said helium wouldn't attraction astir his ain comments "if I had 570 cardinal followers connected Instagram."

This has been a rollercoaster play for Ronaldo.

During preseason, helium was criticised for leaving a affable lucifer earlier the last whistle earlier shooting backmost connected Instagram.

The Portuguese superstar said successful the post: "They cognize the information erstwhile they interrogation successful mates of weeks. The media is telling lies.

"I person a notebook and successful the past fewer months of the 100 quality I made, lone 5 of them were right."

At the clip the centre guardant was trying to unit a determination distant from Old Trafford, a twelvemonth aft helium made what galore thought would beryllium a fairy communicative reunion with the Red Devils.

Last year, during the BBC's sum of Euro 2020, Rio Ferdinand – Ronaldo's erstwhile teammate and person – told Gary Lineker that: "He's a phenomenal subordinate but idiosyncratic who thinks astir everything successful the crippled to get each small spot retired of himself.

"It's a large illustration and helium uses negativity arsenic fuel. You (Lineker) accidental Messi is the amended retired of the two. He volition substance maine saying 'why has helium said that?'

"It's his competitory quality and you request that to beryllium the best."

Ronaldo has lone scored 1 extremity successful 9 Premier League appearances this play and has recovered himself beneath Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial successful the pecking bid successful United's attack.

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