Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo urged his teammates to change the mentality in the dressing room, saying that the team’s failure to occupy one of the top three places in the English Premier League was not acceptable.
Manchester United’s new coach, German Ralf Rangnick, succeeded in stopping the team’s regression path in the “Premier League” since taking over from Norway’s Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who was sacked for poor results, but United are still in seventh place, 22 points behind their neighbors, Manchester City, leaders He was unable to achieve a qualitative leap in performance and results.
Ronaldo, the best player in the world five times, called for a change of mentality in the dressing room to face the poor level of the team, which led to the 1-0 loss to Wolverhampton in the last round of the “Premier League”.
The Portuguese star told Sky Sports: “Manchester United should win the league or take second or third place. I don’t see any other position for Manchester United.”
He added, “In my heart, I do not accept that our mentality is less than being in the top three in the English Premier League.”
🗣 "I don't accept less than the top three."
Cristiano Ronaldo says that #MUFC should not accept anything less than a top three finish in the Premier League this season.pic.twitter.com/wKVHPiGCQt
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) January 13, 2022
And the former Real Madrid star continued: “I think that to build good things sometimes you have to destroy some other things. New year, new life, I hope Manchester are at the level that people want, especially the fans. We are able to change things now.”