Cristiano Ronaldo has responded to weird claims made about him from a former team-mate at Actual Madrid.
In his 9 years at Actual Madrid Ronaldo received all the things he probably might have, scoring a whole bunch of targets within the course of. However whereas the latter years noticed him hyperlink up with Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale, he initially performed with Kaka, Raul and Rafael van der Vaart.
Dutch midfielder Van der Vaart solely performed one season with Ronaldo in Madrid, however highlighted the Portuguese ahead’s selfishness – in addition to making a weird declare about his manhood.
Cristiano Ronaldo responds to weird Rafael van der Vaart declare
Ronaldo and Van der Vaart at Actual Madrid (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
“I at all times inform this joke: Ronaldo is the one participant whose penis I’ve by no means seen,” Van der Vaart advised Talksport’s TheLineUp podcast. “He was at all times the primary one to coach and the final one to depart.”
He continued, including that Ronaldo’s starvation for targets usually got here on the detriment of the temper across the group.
Ronaldo and Van der Vaart enjoying towards one another for his or her nationwide groups (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
“He was extremely egocentric,” Van der Vaart mentioned. “If we received 6-0 and he didn’t rating, he wasn’t joyful, however after we misplaced, he was joyful if he scored two. Did he play only for himself? No, it was simply his want to attain. Ruud van Nistelrooy was the identical.”
Clearly irritated with the feedback from his former Actual Madrid team-mate, Ronaldo reposted a number of the remarks on Instagram accompanied with a four-word response: “Who’s that man?”.
Whereas Ronaldo has performed together with his fair proportion of superstars, it is extraordinarily unlikely that he’ll have forgotten about Van der Vaart, with the pair having spent everything of the 2009/10 season collectively beneath Manuel Pellegrini, earlier than the Dutchman departed for Tottenham .
Certainly, Ronaldo scored 33 targets in 35 video games for Los Blancos in all competitions, whereas the team-mate he fails to acknowledge managed seven targets and 7 assists in 31 matches.
