Disrespectful Man United have betrayed me & made me a black sheep, says Ronaldo in explosive Piers Morgan interview

 CRISTIANO Ronaldo has had enough.

He’s had enough of the sniping, the sneering, and the endless blame-game bulls*** that’s been flung at him over the past few months.

Ronaldo, 37, is the highest goal scorer in football history and for me, and many more qualified to pass judgment such as Zinedine Zidane and Carlo Ancelotti, the greatest to ever play the game.

He’s also the most-followed human being on Instagram, the modern-day metric of star power, and is about to pass half a billion followers.

But right now he feels angry, and disrespected, and he’s not going to stay silent any longer.

As he prepares to fly to Qatar for his fifth — and almost certainly last — World Cup, he wants to have HIS say.

We sat down for a 90-minute TV interview for my show Piers Morgan Uncensored that is by far the most explosive he has ever given.

Ronaldo finally sets the record straight about what he calls the “most difficult period of my life”, both professionally and personally.He says he feels “betrayed” by the way he has been treated by Manchester United, annoyed that he’s been made a “black sheep” who is blamed for everything that has gone wrong at the club, and believes he is now being actively forced out.

At work, he has had three bosses in just over a year.

For the first, his former team-mate Ole Gunnar Solskjaer who was sacked just weeks after Ronaldo returned, he has nothing but respect.

For the other two, Ralf Rangnick and current manager Erik ten Hag, he has little good to say.

Of Rangnick, who had spent just two years of the last decade as a manager, he says: “If you’re not even a coach, how are you going to be the boss of Manchester United? I’d never even heard of him.”

I don't have respect for him because he doesn’t show respect for me.

Of Ten Hag, who suspended Ronaldo last month for refusing to come on as a last-minute substitute against Tottenham, he says: “I don’t have respect for him because he doesn’t show respect for me. 

“If you don’t have respect for me, I’m never gonna have respect for you.”

As for some of his most vociferous critics, like another former team-mate Wayne Rooney who has publicly attacked Ronaldo for months and urged United to get rid of him, he is witheringly scornful of their headline-grabbing motives.He says: “I don’t know why he criticises me so badly . . . probably because he finished his career and I’m still playing at high level.”

Then he chuckles and adds: “I’m not going to say that I’m looking better than him. Which is true . . . ”