Cristiano Ronaldo has given Ruben Amorim major piece of advice for Man Utd job

Cristiano Ronaldo has told new boss that he cannot play down expectations at his new club.

Amorim at Old Trafford on November 11. After a largely dismal time under , excluding the triumph over in May, United fans and hierarchy alike will be itching to see the Portuguese take his place in the dugout. However, Amorim has been told he must aim for the very top from day one by former and Red Devils star Ronaldo.

took issue with ex-manager Ten Hag's proclamation that United would struggle to compete for the and other top prizes. The Al-Nassr forward, who fell out with the Dutchman before seeing his contract terminated in November 2022, also claimed that the club was in need of a complete rebuild.

Amorim comes to United fresh off the back of winning two league titles with Sporting CP and so will be familiar with the intensity that comes with lodging a season-long title challenge. This should see him in good stead, as speaking on Rio Ferdinand's 'Rio Presents' podcast earlier this year, Ronaldo insisted that whoever calls the shots at United simply must aim to win the and .

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"Manchester, they need to rebuild everything, in my opinion,". "The coach (Erik ten Hag), they say they cannot compete to win the league and .

" coach, you cannot say that you’re not going to fight to win the league or Champions League. You have to be, to mentally say: ‘Listen, maybe we don’t have that potential, but I cannot say that. We’re going to try.’ You have to try."

Ronaldo lasted just a few months under Ten Hag in his second spell with United before departing after giving an infamous interview to Piers Morgan, where he criticised a number of individuals at Old Trafford. Ronaldo endured with the ex-United manager.

Ten Hag's frustration with Ronaldo is believed to have peaked when the striker refused to come off the bench in the dying moments against in October 2022. The majority of the squad then disagreed with the player's behaviour and felt he needed to be reprimanded before it went too far.

However, several players even felt that Ten Hag went overboard with the punishment he dished out to , with some reportedly suggesting he even tried to humiliate him. Ronaldo was told to train away from the first team, but Ten Hag took that further when he banned him from entering the dressing room, with even reporting that Ronaldo had to ask an academy player to go in and grab a pair of trainers he had left in there.

Ronaldo later blasted Ten Hag and claimed he did not have any "respect" for him. "I don’t have respect for him because he doesn’t show respect for me," he said in the interview.

Ten Hag later at Ronaldo for the former star's claim that the Dutchman lacked the ambition to be United's head coach. “He is far away in Saudi, far away from Manchester, so everyone can have an opinion and is entitled to have an opinion, so it's okay" he said in September of this year.

However, Ronaldo's relationship with compatriot Amorim appears to be in a much healthier state. Not many fans will be aware that United's new manager even once with Ronaldo for the Portuguese national team.

One showing waiting on the sidelines to be introduced, only for it to be revealed that the player he was replacing was the former United striker. While Amorim and Ronaldo never played together at club level, Ronaldo has since reportedly as 'the poet'.

In a far cry from his opinion on Ten Hag, Ronaldo apparently bestowed the nickname on his former international team-mate after being majorly impressed with how he talks to the media, as well as his players.

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