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Tyson Fury makes clear his feelings on Man Utd player and gives Ronaldo theory

mirror.co.uk, 18 June 2022, 10:40
Manchester United-supporting world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury blasts Old Trafford prima donnas and tells Erik ten Hag he must create a team

By his own admission, Tyson Fury knows nothing about football management. But the WBC world heavyweight champion knows everything there is to know about creating a winning team.

Which is why new Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag might just want to listen to his observations about Cristiano Ronaldo and the rest of the squad he has inherited.

Fury said: "I'll be getting to Old Trafford a little bit more now I'm retired although, to be honest, every time I go there to watch them, they lose. And I don't do second place, I don't do losing, I don't do all that s****. It's win or nothing, so watching United at the moment, it's crazy because I don't get why these people aren't running after that ball for 90 minutes.

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"A lot of people blame the managers, the coaches, but at the end of the day there are too many prima donnas at Manchester United and the best thing that could have happened is having a clearout, like what's happening. They need to knuckle down.

"They need someone strict, like Sir Alex Ferguson, who's going to tell them what to do and if they're not listening say, 'It's the bench for you, I don't care how good you are or how famous you are, you're not playing until you decide to work hard'. The word 'team' means everybody pulls their own weight, they don't rely on someone else to score the goals or to run for them.

"It's everyone working hard for a common interest, a common goal, and that's winning. I know nothing about managing football but I know everything about winning and I know everybody has to muck in to get results. If I go into the gym on my own to train for a world title then I'm not going to be that successful.

"Which is why I have a full team — my masseuse, my strength-and-conditioning guy, my sparring partners, coaches, that sort of stuff — and we're all pulling in the same direction to go in there and get results, because that's what's needed. If some of these guys are pulling in different directions and doing it for their own benefit, we wouldn't be getting the results year in, year out."

Fury, who kicks off a meet and greet tour of Britain to speak to his fans later this week, has noticed an imbalance since Ronaldo's return a year ago. He said: "It's good news Ronaldo is staying on, but here's a theory: when they didn't have him the season before last, they finished second in the Premier League, then we had Ronaldo and we finished sixth. People will say, 'Well, if we hadn't had him scoring 20 goals we'd have finished a lot lower last season', but we didn't the season before and we finished a lot higher.

"When you have a superstar like Ronaldo, everybody relies on him to score goals and if he wasn't there they'd be scoring the goals themselves, like they did the season before last. I'm not saying he's a bad asset, he's a great asset, but sometimes with a star player, he carries the team and the young people are overshadowed by it all, they don't get their chance to shine because 'the great Ronaldo' is on the pitch."

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