On a visit to Lisbon this week, former goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel, who played for Manchester United in the 1990s and for Sporting Lisbon for two seasons, answered questions from the Portuguese newspaper. In Pula. The former Danish international (129 international matches) spoke, among other things, about the difficulties that the Red Devils have been going through for several seasons, most notably the famous interview in which Cristiano Ronaldo He presented it to Piers Morgan in 2022, criticized the club and left shortly after.
” I love Ronaldo. For me, he is the best player of all time. I understand he was going through something he had never been through before: adversity, not being in the team, not being No. 1. But this interview did not help the club. He needed to let his anger be heard, but now was not the time. We can't disagree with what he said, but it wasn't his place to do that, and it didn't help. When you're Cristiano, you have a certain attitude, you say what you want, but the truth is that he didn't help United, he brought the club down a little bit. »
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