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Ronaldo<\/strong><\/p>\n Former Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney has said that the club must let Cristiano Ronaldo leave if they are to build a successful team for the future under new manager Erik ten Hag.<\/p>\n The 37-year-old Ronaldo, who re-signed for United from Juventus last season, reportedly wants a move away from Old Trafford after the team\u2019s failure to qualify for the Champions League.<\/p>\n \u201cI think United should let Cristiano Ronaldo go. It\u2019s not that Ronaldo can\u2019t play in a Ten Hag team. He can play in any team,\u201d Rooney, who now manages Major League Soccer side DC United, wrote in a column for the Times.<\/p>\n \u201cRonny will always score you goals. But my personal view is that United aren\u2019t ready to challenge for the title now, so the aim has to be to build a team that can win the league in the next three to four years, and you have to plan for that.\u201d<\/p>\n United kicked off their Premier League campaign at home to Brighton & Hove Albion yesterday and Ronaldo was named on the bench.<\/p>\n He netted 24 times in all competitions last season, emerging as one of the few bright sparks in an otherwise forgettable campaign for United that saw them finish sixth.<\/p>\n Ten Hag this week said he was happy to have a \u201ctop striker\u201d like Ronaldo in the squad and looking forward to working with him.<\/p>\n Rooney, who is United\u2019s all-time leading scorer, added he was hopeful that Ten Hag would be able to establish a clear playing style at his former club.<\/p>\n \u201cI couldn\u2019t work out what they were trying to do in terms of game plan, or see any patterns of play,\u201d Rooney said of last season.<\/p>\n \u201cI think one of the big things you\u2019ll see from Ten Hag is him really trying to put his stamp on the playing identity.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Ronaldo Former Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney has said that the club must let Cristiano Ronaldo leave if they are to build a successful team for the future under new manager Erik ten Hag. The 37-year-old Ronaldo, who re-signed for United from Juventus last season, reportedly wants a move away from Old Trafford after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1170487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3156,697,2298,4520,700],"class_list":["post-1170480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-leave","tag-man","tag-ronaldo","tag-rooney","tag-tells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}