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“He let the team down, and he let me down, because we planned with him,” Ten Hag told The Athletic.
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Ten Hag left Ronaldo out of the Manchester United side for a Premier League match ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88at Chelsea in October 2022. The decision came three days after Ronaldo refused to enter the game as a substitute against Tottenham.
The forward subsequently gave an interview in November in which he ic88said he felt “betrayed” by Manchester United, did not respect Ten Hag and was being pushed towards the exit.
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Ten Hag rejected the suggestion that Ronaldo’s age orlr88lr88lr88 physical condition meant he could not contribute to the team’s pressing.
“It’s the wrong idea to put this to me that I expected him to do the pressing, that he’s exhausted,” he said. “But he couldn’t. He ran neither in possession nor out of possession. The reason was because he didn’t prepare himself.”
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Ten Hag added that elite players had responsibilities to their team-mates as well as privileges within the squad.
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