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Cristiano Ronaldo and Erik ten Hag<\/strong><\/p>\n Erik ten Hag has insisted Cristiano Ronaldo is happy at Manchester United, despite concerns the striker could leave in January\u2019s transfer window after a lack of game time.<\/p>\n Ronaldo was an unused substitute in United\u2019s heavy defeat against rivals Man City on Sunday. Ten Hag said he resisted the temptation to bring on Ronaldo \u201cout of respect for his career.\u201d<\/p>\n Ten Hag told reporters in a news conference on Wednesday the 37-year-old is \u201cpissed off\u201d when he doesn\u2019t play, but there is \u201cgood spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t bring him on out of respect, it\u2019s nothing to do with what\u2019s happening for the future or January or next year,\u201d Ten Hag said. \u201cI don\u2019t see he\u2019s unhappy, he\u2019s happy, he\u2019s training well, he\u2019s enjoying it. Everyone is training well, there\u2019s a good spirit.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s not happy that he wasn\u2019t playing on Sunday, but that wasn\u2019t the question.<\/p>\n \u201cThe question was about his mood when he\u2019s around and he\u2019s happy. Of course, he wants to play, he\u2019s pissed off when he\u2019s not playing.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Ten Hag thanked City and Pep Guardiola for teaching his side a lesson in the derby.<\/p>\n United were 4-0 down at half time at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday and eventually lost 6-3.<\/p>\n Ten Hag said the result was a \u201creality check\u201d after wins over Liverpool and Arsenal, and insisted he expects a response when the squad travel to Cyprus to face Omonia FC in the Europa League today.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you beat Arsenal and Liverpool, now we get a reality check with Manchester City,\u201d Ten Hag said. \u201cWe know we have to step up. So thank you for the lesson Pep and City, we will take that, we have to understand.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you\u2019re in a process it won\u2019t go only upside, you will have setbacks.<\/p>\n \u201cWe beat Liverpool, but on Sunday we had a bad day at the office and we got beat. We have to accept that, but we can\u2019t accept our performance, that was unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cristiano Ronaldo and Erik ten Hag Erik ten Hag has insisted Cristiano Ronaldo is happy at Manchester United, despite concerns the striker could leave in January\u2019s transfer window after a lack of game time. Ronaldo was an unused substitute in United\u2019s heavy defeat against rivals Man City on Sunday. Ten Hag said he resisted the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5093,3160,2298],"class_list":["post-1217273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-angry","tag-playing","tag-ronaldo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217273","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=1217273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}