Nah that's nonsense. The manager is in charge of the players. If he expects them to stay then they should stay. Who do you refer to when you say "club"?
And? When he's speaking to the team, can he speak in English?
What
Yep, have you seen his fans defending him and excusing his behavior for just about everything!
Thought it was clear?What
Ronaldo and company will know that Ten Hag should have the final say, and if he said no or even wasn’t asked it’s a lack of respect for the coach. It’s like as a kid asking your mum because your dad said no.
@MrEleson you've had a shocker throughout this.
It’s likely that under previous management, senior players were given privileges, so to speak (and perhaps Dalot shared them as Ronaldo’s buddy).
Did they play in the match too? No. But hey - narrative.
There is a brigade on here who act as the civil police whenever anyone raises the slightest of doubt that, things are actually not right, or not changed despite what the club briefs. Sheep is probably a fitting description for that lot.
He says in the interview that he told the team how he felt
Genuinely in stitches
That's why I asked about his English....it seems a bit hard to believe that he ordered the team to stay for the entire game and 25% of the team still left. That is the theory of this, right?
The club actually said it's "not unusual for players to leave early". I think more is being made out of this because it's Ronaldo, but he wasn't the only one the other day and clearly this used to happen under previous managers.
They were in the match day squad? I actually don't know.
Uh, no, the "theory" would be that he assumed it would be obvious to the players that you don't leave in the middle of a game, and when some of them did it anyway, he called them out for it.
I mean, to be fair, we had Pogba last season. It's very hard to say that Ronaldo was more toxic than Pogba. Not justifying Ronaldo in any way but I wouldn't want Pogba to lose his crown as king of the douches.
