Previously, C Ronaldo did not report to Manchester United's Carrington base due to "family reasons". In the early morning of July 5th, Beijing time, an exclusive report came from the famous Portuguese journalist Pedro Sepúlveda. Ronaldo himself was still in Lisbon . He arrived at the Portuguese national team’s training base on the morning of the 4th local time to train alone.
Sky Sports reporter Lyall Thomas further confirmed that Ronaldo has been training at the Portuguese national team training base in Lisbon over the past few days. Eager for a move, it remains to be seen whether he will join Manchester United on Friday for a pre-season tour of Australia and Thailand. Due to family reasons, he refused to return to the team to prepare for the new season, but started training alone at the national team base. This also confirmed that Ronaldo had indeed "stopped training."
Previously, Ronaldo had publicly informed the club that he should let himself leave the team if he received a suitable offer. Manchester United continued to insist that Ronaldo, who had one year left on his contract, was "not for sale." However, Manchester United chose to accept Ronaldo's temporary refusal to return to the team to prepare for the new season.
In this regard, the British media "Mirror" bluntly stated that Ronaldo is likely to repeat the transfer farce of Harry Kane last year. Last summer, Manchester City repeatedly offered hundreds of millions of euros to Tottenham to buy Kane, and the England captain also expressed to Tottenham many times that he wanted to leave the team to win trophies. In the end, it ended in an embarrassing way because Tottenham took a tough stance. Although Kane was forced to stay on the team, the rift between the two parties was irreparable.
The situation of Cristiano Ronaldo is very similar. "Mirror" bluntly stated that although Cristiano Ronaldo has not yet developed to the level of Kane last summer, missing the first day of pre-season training will make Manchester United's senior management alert. Manchester United promoted Ronaldo's return last summer with great fanfare, and it would be very embarrassing for the senior management if he left the team after just one year. It can be said that Manchester United is now in "huge trouble".
