Piers Morgan Uncensored - Piers Morgan Uncensored: Cristiano Ronaldo Exclusive

Episode Date: November 16, 2022

On tonight's edition of Piers Morgan Uncensored, Piers hosts part one of a world-exclusive interview with Cristiano Ronaldo where he lifts the lid on his return to Manchester United, how he's been treated by the club and how the club has 'betrayed' him, in the most explosive interview of the year... Watch Piers Morgan Uncensored at 8 pm on TalkTV on Sky 526, Virgin Media 606, Freeview 237 and Freesat 217. Listen on DAB+ and the app.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is Piers Morgan Unsensored, and this is the interview the entire world has been talking about. Cristiana Ronaldo, one-on-one. From London, this is Piers Morgan Uncensored. Welcome to a special edition of Piers Morgan Unsensored. Cristiano Ronaldo is a football megastar. In my opinion, the greatest player to ever grace the game. He's also one of the most famous people on the planet. He's the other toughest year of his life on and off.

to pitch, facing personal tragedy and a barrage of criticism from fans, pundits, even his own coaches. Everyone else has had their say. Now, it's his turn. And Cristiano is most definitely uncensored. Cristiano, let me start just by asking you. Why are you doing this interview with me? Because I think it's the time to say something. And because I like you.

As simple as that. Well, don't say that in public. Well, I like you too, and I appreciate it because I think that you've had to sustain a lot of criticism this year in particular, probably more than at any stage in your career. And I think it's time to set the record straight and to clear up a few things,

not least, I suspect, for the fans of Manchester United. You must be wondering what the hell's been going on. Oh, as I say, many, many times the fans, I'm always going to, say good about them. They are the most important things in the football. You play for them. They're always in my side.

I feel that every time when I go, when I walk in the streets, the fans coming to me and they appreciate what I did, what I do for football. And for me, it's the most important in the football. The fans, for me, is everything. I want to take you back to last year, last summer. You're at Juventus. and there's massive speculation about where you're going to go.

And the big rumor is that you're going to go to Manchester City. So first of all, how close was that to happening? Well, honestly, it was close. It was close. It was close. It's something that they spoke a lot. And Guardiola said two weeks ago, I guess, that they try, They try hard to have me. But as you know, as my history in Manchester United,

your heart, your feeling the way, the history that you did before make the difference. And of course, as well, Sir Alex Ferguson. So I was surprised in the same way, but it was conscious decision because the heart, speaking loud in that moment. You were a Manchester United Legend.

So when you say your heart led you, it's because of that, the history you have with the club and the relationship you maintained with Sir Alex, with the fans. I think it was the key. It was the difference in that moment. But I cannot be loyal if I would say that Manchester City wasn't close.

But I think I think, I did conscious decision. I don't regret in some point. And as you mentioned before, Sir Alex Ferguson was the key as well. Did you speak to him before you came back? Yes, I did. Yes, I did. I spoke with him. And what did he say to you to try and persuade you?

He said to me that it's, it's impossible for you to come to Manchester City. And I say, okay, boss. So I took the decisions and I repeat with very, I was with conscience that it was a good decision. You came back and it couldn't have started better. You played at Old Trafford. You won four one against Newcastle.

You scored twice. Sir Alex was there, loving it obviously, the return of the prodigal son. Your mother was there. the return of her own son. Your mother was crying, obviously. Obviously, yes. But what a comeback.

How did that feel that day when you came off the pitch? Well, that feeling was amazing. But not only the day of the game. I felt before the week, before that everything changed. The world speak about me. Cristiano back home, back where they belong. So it was a special moment to be back to Manchester United, to perform for...

our fans and of course to score two goals was the best welcome that I received in Old Trafford it was memorable day and unbelievable day too the Viva Ronaldo chart went out yes Viva Ronaldo you like hearing me back of course I did as I as I told it before the fans for me they are everything two things happened I think within 24 hours of you re-signing for United one you broke the all-time record for shirt sales in 24 hours. You actually beat a guy called Messi, PSG. You must have been happy about that. Of course I do. As you know, I don't follow the records. The records follow me. So it's good. Another one in my book. And the other one was the Manchester United tweet announcing that you were

rejoining the club was the most tweeted, or most liked tweet, I think, in Twitter history. It was good, as I told it before. It was a good moment. Nobody expect because things change around, in my opinion, in 72 hours, which is you plan or they spoke not only in Manchester City but other clubs too, spoke about your name that you will change Juventus for another club. But Manchester United wasn't there, wasn't in that pot of that teams. surprise everybody, even me, to be honest.

After a few weeks, things weren't going well at Manchester United. The club just wasn't firing, and in the end, Oli Ganesolskar, the manager, got sacked. And that's within like two months of you coming back. What were you feeling about what was going on at United? And what did you feel generally about the club itself and the state that the club was in compared to when you'd been there before? To be honest, when I signed for Manchester United, I thought everything was changed because it's 13 years that I changed. I was in Real Madrid nine years and three in Juventus. And when I arrived, I thought everything will be different, you know, the technology, the infrastructures and everything.

But I was surprised in a bad way, let's say, in that way, because I saw everything was the thing. the same. And Manchester, it wasn't in that moment that, as you mentioned, that all he was suck. Michael Carrick, he assumed the job for two games, Villarreal and Chelsea away. And everything was so fast, but surprised me a lot, instability in the club. Everything was kind of the same that I... It hadn't moved on. They stop on a clock, in my opinion, which is something that surprised me. I didn't expect.

And slowly and slowly they start to change, even the windows, the new players. What's tough for me because I didn't expect that. Because when you were there before, if Manchester United wanted a player under Sir Alex Ferguson, They normally got their man. Now it's a very different environment. After many years of failure since Sir Alex retired, United weren't getting the top players anymore. So were you surprised by that dynamic changing as well?

Because you would have been used before to them if they wanted top players, they got them. I was surprised. I thought when I signed that they signed in that year, Sancio and Varan plus me, that things will be in the way that Manchester should be. As you mentioned, well, Sir Alex Ferguson left a big gap in the club. Not only Sir Alex Ferguson, but one person that I thought made the difference, David Gill,

the president, a very, very good man. And the structure around Sarah Alex Ferguson Fulgence was very important too. I knew it that Manchester United wasn't the same, but I don't see that it was so big gap, so big things that go through by the last 10 years and it was the thing that surprised me more to be honest. There's little things like even the swimming pool the players used, the saunas, all these facilities, nothing had changed since you'd left in 2009. Nothing changed. Surprisingly not only the pool, the jacuzzi, even the gym, even some points of technology, the kitchen, the chefs, which as I appreciate lovely, lovely persons, they stop in a time.

which is it surprised me a lot. I thought I will see different things, different, as I mentioned before, technology, infrastructure. But unfortunately, we see many things that I'm used to see when I was 20, 21, 23, so surprise me a lot. You'd also, of course, as you said, you've been at Real Madrid and Juventus,

where you saw them moving all the time to progress, progress with technology the latest thing to improve performance level. So you were able to compare what you'd experience there with what was not happening at United. In United, the progress was zero, in my opinion, to compare with Real Madrid and even Juventus, that they follow the recent worlds. So the technology, especially the terms of training, nutrition and conditions of it properly and to recover better than before. Surprise me, Manchester right now to compare with that club,

I think it's behind, in my opinion, which is something that surprised me. A club with this dimension should be in the top of the tree, in my opinion. And they are not, unfortunately, they are not in that level, But I hope the next years they can reach to be in a top level. Up next, Ronaldo's scathing verdict on what's gone wrong at Manchester United. When you look at, I mean, United have had some of the best managers in the world

follows Sir Alex Ferguson. And they've all been relative failures compared to other stages of their careers. Do you think that partly that's down to the structural element of this, that just isn't the support that top managers need? I don't know what's going on, but since the Sarah Lex Ferguson left, I saw not evolution in the club. The progress was zero. For example, you have an interesting point that how the club as Manchester United after Suck OLE. They buy, they bring sport directive Ralph Rechnick, which is something that nobody understands.

This guy is not even a coach. A bigger club like Manchester United bring sport directive. Surprise not only me, but all the world. Well, it was a ridiculous decision, wasn't it? Of course. In my opinion, you have to be honest. If you're not even a coach, how you're going to be the boss of Manchester United? It's something that I should see that Manchester is not followed not the right way

to reach the best. successful like other teams like for example Liverpool or Manchester City Chelsea they are one step behind or two because of this kind of mistakes in my opinion that they should improve and change probably the the staff or the people the directives or presidents I don't know who is the who is the problem there but since that show a lack of ambition to you when they replaced Oli Ganesolska,

who a lot of fans liked, but he obviously wasn't delivering the big titles that United wanted and were used to. But to a point, someone like Ralph Ranning, I mean, I'd never heard of him. And I'm thinking of... Nobody. And I'm thinking, has you heard of him?

No, of course. You'd never heard of this guy. Nobody. And the people who I speak, nobody knew it with him. Suddenly he's... Did you call him the boss? Of course. I respect.

We have to call because he's... to call because he assumed the job. Regardless, all the coaches that I had in my career, I call them boss because if they assume the job, we have to call in that way. But in the end, deep inside me, I never saw him as a boss because I saw some points that I never agreed and he stopped in the time as well,

because if you're not being a coach, the next five years, you're gonna, you know, you're gonna, the identity of to be a coach, so surprise me a lot. But in the same way, don't surprise me a lot, because if you see the structures, they keep it in the same, so the coaches didn't surprise me, but it was a tough moment. What was extraordinary was very quickly after Ranick took over,

it started briefing journalists that you weren't pressing enough, and that maybe it would be a good idea if you moved on from the club. And I'm like, who is this guy? And why is he saying this to the man who's scoring the goals? To be honest, but it's something that I don't understand. It's the new coaches that coming around, they think they find the last Coca-Cola in the desert, which is that I don't understand the football

that invents many, many years. But I respect any coach have a different approach, different opinions, different mentality, but kind of some points that you are, not agree. So I'm always like that in my life. I'm always been besides the best coaches in the world, Zidane and Chilotti, Morino Fernando Santos, Aligri. So I had kind of some experience because I learn from them. And when you see some coaches that they're coming, that they want to revolution the football, I not agree. I have my opinion. They agree. They agree, they don't

that disagree. But it's part of the business because in the end of the day, I'm in the club to win and with my experience I want to help like always and I some coaches that don't accept and that you know it's part of the job did you know what he was doing running or not at a club like United no they don't they knew with the club very well but they don't know the main of the dimension of the club inside the history of the club which is for me surprised me even more, which is when you do suck Ollie Solskair, you should bring a top manager, not sport directive. Did you think it was right to get rid of Solskar or would you have kept him on?

Well, it's not, well, I love Solskair. I think it was a top person because what I keep inside my heart, it's the heart of the person's and Oli for me is a top person. Coach, of course, he didn't look for what he wants. It's hard to assume after Sir Alex Ferguson. But I think he did a good job, for sure. He needed more time. But I never doubt that he's going to be a good coach in the future. But it was a good experience.

I was so pleased to work with him even a short period. What about the younger players? specifically their mentality, because it seemed to me just from what I was reading, when you were originally at Manchester United as a young 18-year-old, that you had huge respect for the older players, the Keens and these guys in the dressing room, and you would soak up their experience, their wisdom, and so on. Did you get that same respect, do you think, from the younger players? I don't mean that they don't respect the experienced players or the oldest players. I don't, I don't I think that word is the best one, but they live in a different era.

I can see my kid they have 12 years old. The mentality are not the same. They are not suffering. What's the difference? The anger. I think the anger. I think that they have the things more easily. Everything is easily.

They don't suffer. And I think they don't care. I don't mean only a few in Manchester United with all the teams, all leagues in the world, the younger, and they are not the same of my generation. But we cannot blame them because it's part of the life, you know, the new generation and the new technologies that avoid, they distract them for another thing.

But they are not the same. They listen, but this is why we have two years. You listen from one side and they go away from another side. So don't surprise me, but in the same way, it's a little bit shame, because if they have the best examples in front of your eyes, and if they don't at least copy what you did for me, it's kind of weird, because I remember when I was 18, 19, 20s, I'm always looked to see the best players, Van Nist Roy, Ferdinan, Roy Kinn,

and that gigs. This is why I have the successful that I have in longevity, because I take care of my body, my mentality, my head because I see these guys and I learn from them. When you try and give advice to these younger players, what do you say to them? What do you try and guide them to be like? I think the best advice, I'm not the kind of guys to like to give advice, is I prefer to be as an example.

Because I'm an example. I'm there every morning and do the same stuff. I'm probably the first ones to arrive and the last one to go out. I think the details speak for itself. Because as I told it before they'll listen one thing and in two minutes they already forgot

and do it whatever they think it's better. This is why I say I like to lead by example and someone they follow me not much but see I find that

I just find that incredible that if I was a young football and I had Cristiana Ronaldo at my club that I wouldn't want to spend every second watching him, listening to him, observing the way you go about your business. And yet from what you're saying clearly, they're not interested. They don't care. Someone's yes, but most of them know. But for me it's not surprise me. Not surprise me because they're not going to have

logivity careers in my opinion. It's impossible. It's impossible. to see, for example, my generation, you see many players, they reach 36, 37, 38 and high level. I think this generation, you're going to count by your hands, or many going to reach in that level? Because this year of preparation, it helps a lot. Who are the players in the world that you most admire for their mental strength, their attitude? It's a difficult question because I always can say what I'm. I see from my highs, for example, if you tell me what I see, for example, in Manchester United, I can mention probably Dalot, Diogo Dalot.

Example is young, but he's very, very professional. And I'm not doubt that you're going to reach, you're going to have longevity in the football because he's young, he's smart, intelligent, and he's very professional. You have a few ones more, but like him, it's difficult to see probably Martinez, Casimirio's 30s. But I will say that lot. Coming next, Ronaldo opens up on the toughest moment of his life. So, Randix comes in, it's your second manager, it's not working, the results aren't great,

you're still scoring goals regularly for Manchester United. You're about the only one who is. But then you get hit by an awful episode in your life, probably the worst time of your life, where you're... where your partner, Georgina, she's pregnant with twins and is actually giving birth to these two babies. And your baby's son doesn't survive. And I don't think I can imagine I have four kids,

you have a lot of children. You can't imagine a worse thing to happen than to go a full term of a pregnancy, particularly for the poor mother in that case, but also for you. What was that like for you? that time in your life? It's probably the worst moments that I passed through my life

since my father died, you know, when you have a kid that you expect that everything will be normal and you have that problem, it's hard, you know, as human being that I am in Georgine, why we had quite difficult moments because we don't understand why happened to us. It was difficult, to be honest, was very, very difficult to understand what's going on in that period of our life. As you know, the football carry on.

They are so fast, many competitions. The football don't stop. We have many, many competitions. And passed through in that moment was probably the most difficult moment that I had in my life. Me and my family, especially Gio, that was. What's tough? She said she was giving an interview about the new series of her TV show. And she said in an interview, a big piece of my heart shattered.

And I asked myself how I could carry on. I had the answer nearer than I thought. I looked into the eyes of my children. And there I saw the only way of doing it being all together. Yeah, I saw too. Yeah, this is why what we did. I grew up my family, especially GEO, and we had the difficult moments, but we say,

listen, we have more kids, we have one that born, Bella, that we have to be happy too. In such a difficult situation, again, where you're mourning the terrible loss of your little baby boy, but also celebrating the birth of your beautiful daughter. I try to explain sometimes to my family and even my close friends, they say, I never felt to be happy and sad in the same. moment. I never felt. It is hard to explain. So difficult. So difficult. It's you don't know if you

cry or you don't know if you smile. Because it's something that you don't know how to react. You don't know what to do, to be honest. And of course I remember very well that I look like I don't know the word that to define what I felt in that moment but it's it's crazy feelings, it's crazy emotion. But as I told before, I have to hold it all, I have to hold that we had at least Bella, which is the most important, one die and one survive. But it was, it's difficult to explain. How did you explain it all to your other children? It must have been so confused about it. In the beginning, you arrive at home and the kids start to say,

where is another baby, where is another baby? Of course, Cristiano, I had conversation with him in the day because he's 12 years old, he knows, he understands everything. And I had a nice conversation with him. We cried together in his bedroom. And he explained, and it's kind of, he doesn't understand. He understands, but in the same way, he was a little bit confused. The other ones in the beginning, in the table, the kids start to say,

Mom, where is the other baby? And Gio in the beginning, they start to say because, you know, she had a little bit barely because they had two with art process. And after one week, I say, you know, let's let's be frontal. Let's be honest with the kids. Let's let's say that Angel, which is the name, they go to the to the heaven. It's better to say in that way. And we start to use in that, in that way. kids always understand when we had shots in a table and they say daddy I did this for

angel and they they punt out for the for this guy which is I I say and I and I like it the most because you know it's part of the lives and I'm not going to lie to my kids to say the true which is this was a difficult process but in the same way I become more more father more friendly of them they become more more close to his daddy Especially me with Georgine as well. I was going to ask you that, because these things they can make all break relationships. Because the grief can be so intense. It can drive couples apart or it can bring them closer.

In my case, it was better in that way. I become more friendly of Gio. I was a friend, but I see more lovely for her and for my kids. And I start to see the life with a different perspective. You understand which is coming the point of, if you're going to ask me for sure, the preseason moments, for example, why I didn't go to the preseason. So I'm going to come to that. But it was just to finish in that chapter was the most difficult moment

the last since my dad died. It was this moment that I passed through the last six months. Do you feel your son is with you in spirit? For sure. For sure. Ashes is with me like my daddy. They are here in my house. Really? Yes, yes.

It's something that I want to hold for the rest of my life. I'm not thrown to the ocean or to the sea. I keep with me. They are next to my daddy. I didn't know if you check. I have a small church down. And I do? Yes, I do.

Like a little chapel? Yes. chapel and I keep my dad and my son. Do you talk to them? Yes, I do. I talk with them every time and that they are in my side. They help me to be a better man, to be a better person, to be a better father. And it's something that I'm really, really proud, the message that they send me, especially my son.

Amazing. You had an extraordinary reaction from football fans. obviously from Manchester United but I think you must have been just so surprised by the outpouring of not just support but Liverpool fans sang on the seventh minute

of their next game you'll never walk alone the cop the great infamous enemy of Manchester United what did you feel when you heard that I never ever expect that never I had opportunity now to say all English

community thank you a lot for that kind of that they had with me, not only Liverpool, but all England. I felt. I was at Arsenal when you played on the seventh minute, the whole crowd. I received a letter from the Queen family as well. Really?

Yes, I do. Which is his... From the Queen herself? Yeah, family. And surprise me a lot. Offering their condonances? Yes. Wow.

Unbelievable. This is why I say I respect a lot the English. community English people because they've been very kind with me and in that difficult moment on my life was spectacular the way they treat me me and my family in that difficult moments I should say straight to the crime and thank you thank you to all English community that helped me in that moment the when the Queen sadly died in September you posted a very nice tribute to her was part of the reason because of what they had been like with you.

Of course. They've been so kind of with me and this is why I did what I did. But it was unbelievable moment and never ever gonna forget that moment. You have a little girl, Bella. She's six months old now. Must be a great joy amid all that terrible sadness. Unbelievable. It was another member in the family.

They are the shine of the house. And we are so proud. Me, Georgina, and all my kids, they are very, very proud for them. They are spectacular, beautiful girl. And we are so happy. We are so, so happy. We are happy fathers. You're going to have more?

I'm not thinking now to thinking more kids. I think we're done. But we never know. The future, the God knows. But right now, we want to have a break. to enjoy these ones because they are little Bell 6 and the rest they are 5 and Christiana 12. We want to enjoy a little bit of these ones. Let's see the future. It's very difficult to play top level football at the best of times.

It's a hard business and full public glare of millions of people watching. To have to go back and play after this must have been incredibly hard for you, even with your mental strength. How did you find that? Difficult. Very difficult to play after that. But as I always have good support from my family and Georgina told me, go, go to play, go enjoy to do what you like to do. You're going to help for you to forget a little bit the situation.

It was difficult, but in the same point, I think helps for you to, you know, to don't thinking much about that, even to training was good. but as you know the football going so fast and you know trainings games even the national team the things going so fast you don't even have a time to settle and say what's going on you know because the things going so fast but was good help Georgina helped me a lot to give me that possibility to say she's she's a very strong woman yes she did

Yes. I mean really strong. Yes. Just to be your partner, it's probably not an easy time a lot of the time with all the attention all the time. But to go through what she's gone through and still be there. We help each other. But she struggle when she has young, which is she now she looked at life with different heights. Even she's young, but she's suffered, you know, she's born in Argentina. She has issues with his family as well.

well. She live alone. She has interesting life and histories as well, history. And she helped me a lot. She's very mature for his age. We, we help each other. Sometimes when I'm a little bit down, she pushed me up. And I do it to the other side. So we are a nice couple. We help each other. So I'm really pleased that she's on my side. Any movement on the wedding bells, Christina? I'm not thinking now about that, but I can see in the future. I think I deserve, she deserves, but it's something that's not coming now in my plans, but in the future, yes, I want. Tell me next, Wayne Rooney, Gary Neville, Ronaldo's got a message for both of you.

Four days after this terrible time in your life, United to get a new manager, Eric Ten Haag. Did you know much about him? A little bit. through Ajax the job that I did for Iax. You end the season with 24 goals for Manchester United, including 18 in the Premier League, six in the Champions League.

You were second in the golden boot for the English football. I mean, by any normal yard state, that's an incredible performance. And yet you were still getting criticised. It was almost like, well, it's got to be your fault, even though you scored all the goals. Were you as bemused as I was, that you were becoming the focal point for the criticism?

I think it's easy to point out when you want to cover other things to point out Christiano Reynolds. It's easy. Everyone now that press, they want to put me in the first page because they know they will sell more. The interesting will be different. And I'm used to live like that because, you know, as 37, I know and I learned many things.

When you are in the down of the wave, when you are in the top of the wave, you don't realize and you don't see things that you don't see before, which is I appreciate to have bad moments to see which people is in your side, who criticize you more, because they're looking for that. They don't like to see successful people. The people only try to bring negative issues. negativeism. And I felt the last four or five months that not only for me but even for my family as well, for Georgina, especially around the world, the press criticizes me even more.

Sometimes I don't understand why. Even Portuguese press that they criticize me a lot. I don't understand, but I still believe that the jealous is part of it. that. They want to cover many things that helps to shine other things. But listen, Pierce, I know I'm 21 years in the top of the game, so I know all it takes. So for me, it's not a problem. It's hard when you are a little bit down to listen to this criticism. Do you read it all? Do you read newspapers? Do you read social media? A good thing that I have. It's, I don't like to read because I know 90% of the times they lie. They are garbage.

The press, they are garbage. Not all of them, but most of them, they don't say the true. And they're like, the constant lie and the constant attack me and my family. They're always negativeism against my family. Why I'm going to read? Because I know they try to make me feel bad. me feel bad, me and my family, which is something hard to deal. But in the end of the day, I understand, but it's really, really hard.

The problem you have is you're too famous. You are the most followed human being on Instagram, but you have, I just checked, 495 million followers. I have just under 2 million on Instagram. 8 million on Twitter, so I'm catching you on Twitter slowly, but you're nearly at half a billion followers on Instagram. That's insane. You're bigger than all the Kardashians put together.

It's good. It's good. I feel proud for that. It means a lot for me because it means that people like me too. I'm charismatic. I think why I'm the number one. Sometimes I ask that questions to myself. Why me?

I'm not another one. Why do you think it is? To be honest, not just only because I play good football, because everyone knows, but I think the rest is relevant. You have to be charismatic. People have to feel some connection with you. I think to be good-looking helps too. I have the same problem.

Yeah, I feel the same way. To be honest, Pierce, I don't know the real reason, but I think I'm charismatic and I'm a pettive fruit. I don't know if we... A fruit that people want to bite. I don't know how you can say in English. Any particular fruit? Let's say strawberry.

But I don't know the reason. I mean, what's incredible to me is the power you have. Appetite, appetite. Appetite fruit. Appetite fruit. I don't know if it makes sense in English, but if you don't make sense, you learn. I'll research appetite fruit, yeah. I mean, I have a pinned tweet, and it's you telling me I have good abdominals,

which is a very good observation. And it's only 10 seconds long. It's had 43 million views this clip, so thank you. 43 million people have heard the guy who actually has got good abdominals. Tell me I'm having good abdominals. But it showed me that the sheer firepower you have in that world of social media.

It's just extraordinary. It's what I told you before. I have good things, which is you can sell your own product, let's say, in that way, but you have to deal with many obstacles in your life too. Do you care if people hate you? I mean, a lot of people love you, but obviously a lot of people don't. You're so big you're going to get both, but do you care about the ones who hate Cristiana Rana? I care the people who like me.

I'm not waste time for the people who don't like me. waste of time, these people they are not interesting on my life. I like to be around the people who love me. I don't waste my time to see the criticize of people who is next to me, ex-players, for example. I don't care about that. Well, I mean, one of your biggest critics has been, and I'm surprised about this. Me too. Wayne Rumi, for example, who you played with for many years very successfully and we're good friends with him. And yet all this year, three or four times, he's come out and attacked you in the media. Pierce, I don't understand.

You should ask this question to him, but I don't know. I don't know why he criticised me so bad or I don't believe that he's jealous of me. He says your behavior is unacceptable, United should sell you in a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, it's way ruined. It was one year ago or six months ago here in my house. you pick up his kids here and invite Christian to go his house to play football. I really don't understand people like that or if they want to be in a cover of the paper, of the news, or they want new jobs or whatever.

Is it jealousy as well, perhaps, so that you're still playing and still in the manualized? Probably, because he finishes his career with 30s, so I'm still playing high level. I'm not going to say that I'm looking better than him, which is true. That is inarguable. I mean, there's no contest. It's hard to listen that kind of criticise and negative about people who play with you. For example, Gary Neville as well.

Yeah, I mean, Gary Neville, you blanked him the other day on the pitch and he looked quite upset, actually, because he obviously likes being your friend, but he's been pretty critical of you as well. People can have his own opinion, but they don't really know what's going on, for example, inside the tree. training ground and Carrington area or even my life, they should listen not only one point of view.

They have to listen to my point of view as well because it's easy to criticize, but if you don't know the old story, it's easy, you know. But it's, as I said before, it's part of it. Are they still friends of yours or do you have a line where they are not my friends? They are colleagues. We play together. They're not coming. We're not have a dinner together, for example. But as I told you, Pierce before, it's part of my journey.

They keep criticise me, negativity every time. So I follow, I continue my trip, and I have to catch up the people who like me. Some of your ex-colleagues have been incredibly supportive. Rio Ferdinand has always got your back. Roy Keane always has your back. Whatever happens, he's always supported you. and has continued to do so. Does that mean a lot to you?

It means a lot because I was in the dressing room with them. They are part of my journey in football as well. As I mentioned many times, working for me was my best captain ever. Rehafer than they helped me a lot. It was my neighbor, I was his neighbor. So very, very good guys. Not just because they speak good about me, but they were there in the dressing room.

They are football players. They know how players thinking and the behaves, etc. And to listen to ex-ex colleagues or teammates to criticize you and they always see one point of view. Do you feel a bit, but do you feel a bit betrayed when they do that? Because you play together. It's easy. It's easy to criticize. I don't know if they have a job in television that they must criticize to be more famous.

I really don't understand. You think they use your name a bit to get attention. I think they take advantage of that because they are. not stupid and I really understand and I have to carry on with my life with criticize or when the people speak good about you but it's hard when you see people who was in the dressing room with you criticizing that way it must hurt you not good but but hardly I'm not gonna be more slim I'm not gonna sleep bad because of the criticize but it's not good to listen that disappointing a little bit

Yes, disappointing. Next on Uncensored, expect fireworks to an explosive second half of my 90 minutes with Ronaldo. Your baby daughters in hospital and the president of Manchester United didn't believe the empathy don't exist.

The glazes, they don't care about the club. What would your message be to Manchester United fans? The fans for me will be always in my heart. He was deliberately provoking him. I didn't felt that he had respect for me. Cristiano Ronaldo is 12 rules to life. Why not? Imagine the rest of the rats they're gonna criticize you too.

I'm just trying to work out how Wayne Rooney could hate you even more. They only speak about the black chip, which is me. It's not the force you at. Not only the coach, but the other two or three guys they are around the club. Yes, I feel betrayed. If you don't have respect for me, I'm never going to have respect for you. Do you think England have a chance?

I have a chance beside Portugal, in my opinion. That's it. You retire, right? Yeah, I retire. You won't want to miss it, whatever you're up to, keep it uncensored.