The comments, reported by The Guardian Sport and BBC News, concern Ronaldo’s second spell at Manchester United and Ten Hag’s tenure as manager. The Guardian Sport reports that Ten Hag said Ronaldo failed to complete a post-match run, a detail not included in the supplied BBC News summary.
According to The Guardian Sport, Ronaldo returned to Manchester United in August 2021, before Ten Hag was appointed manager in April 2022. The two therefore overlapped at the club during the period addressed by Ten Hag’s comments.
The Guardian Sport reports that the relationship deteriorated after Ronaldo refused to come on as a substitute against Tottenham in October 2022. The same account says Ronaldo later criticised Manchester United publicly in a television interview, describing the sequence as part of the breakdown between the player and manager.
Ronaldo’s Manchester United contract was mutually terminated in November 2022, according to The Guardian Sport. That decision followed the events described in the publication’s account of the relationship between Ronaldo and Ten Hag.
The Guardian Sport also reports that Ten Hag alleged promises made by Manchester United’s owners went unfulfilled and linked those unfulfilled promises to his dismissal by the club in October 2024. The supplied material does not identify which promises he said had been broken.
The supplied reports establish their publication date but do not establish when or where Ten Hag made the comments, including whether they were made at Old Trafford. The available material also does not provide a fuller setting or format for the remarks.