Former Manchester United defender took a brutal dig at his Liverpool counterpart Jammie Carragher after he was snubbed by Cristiano Ronaldo for a handshake. United and Liverpool met on the Previous Trafford for his or her first conflict of the brand new season, as Jammie Carragher, Roy Keane and Gary Neville have been in for punditry for Sky Sports activities.
Man United supervisor Erik ten Hag benched Ronaldo alongside Harry Maguire for the crunch recreation as Liverpool nonetheless discovered it tough to deal with the house facet’s depth. Strikes from Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford meant United picked their first win of the season, whereas inflicting a primary loss on the Reds.
Cristiano Ronaldo retains long-time critic Carragher hanging
Jammie Carragher has lengthy doubted Cristiano Ronaldo’s return to Manchester United final summer season, over whether or not it has truly made the distinction to the staff or not. The Liverpool icon has even went on opine that Ronaldo’s arrival has stored United from enjoying the high-pressing soccer they wish to.
Final week itself, Carragher had stated that United ought to let go of the Portugal worldwide who desires to go away the membership for Champions League soccer. The previous Liverpool defender had stated: “I believe it’s higher for him [Cristiano Ronaldo] to go as a result of he desires to go, he feels that himself, it’s fairly apparent.
“He stated he’ll come out with an announcement in perhaps two weeks when the switch window closes, however I simply really feel with Ronaldo, this large change of tradition, high quality, no matter Man United must get on that path to chase down Liverpool and Metropolis over the past couple of years and begin that constructing course of, it seems like it might’t actually begin whereas Ronaldo’s there. Simply due to the presence of the person, the age of him as nicely, it simply seems like they should be bringing within the subsequent Ronaldo slightly than the outdated Ronaldo.”
Ronaldo now gave it again to Carragher after he gatecrashed the player-turned-pundit’s dialog with Keane, Neville and host Dave Jones. Whereas the 37-year-old shared a heat hug with former teammates Neville and Keane, he animatedly averted a handshake with Carragher who was left with a clumsy smile on his face standing between the 2.
Taking it to his Twitter, Ferdinand couldn’t cease himself from poking enjoyable at Carragher as he together with the movies wrote: “@Cristiano completely blanking @Carra23 there. Had you doing a 360 just like the outdated days.”
@Cristiano completely blanking @Carra23 there 😂😂😂😂
Had you doing a 360 just like the outdated days 😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/YcfM8d1M3k— Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) August 22, 2022
The Champions League winner with Liverpool too replied to Ferdinand, tweeting: “Unhealthy evening from begin to end! blanked by my good mate Ronaldo, Man Utd displaying battle & high quality & Liverpool in every single place!!”
In the meantime, Liverpool are nonetheless trying to find their first win of the season as they’ve now gone three with out one. They’re up subsequent towards newly promoted Bournemouth at house as supervisor Jurgen Klopp will demand a response from his gamers.
