DBasia.news – Cristiano Ronaldo’s actions in the match against Tottenham Hotspur has left a question on his future at Manchester United. A dark story that has involved Erik ten Hag at Ajax Amsterdam has the potential to repeat itself.
As previously reported, Ronaldo left the field before the match against Tottenham ended. Then word got out that he had refused Ten Hag’s orders to come on as a substitute towards the end of normal time.
This disgraceful behavior led to sanctions from the club. Manchester United removed Ronaldo from the first team until the match against Chelsea, this weekend.
During this period, Ronaldo will not train under Ten Hag. Instead, he will join the Manchester United U-21 team.
This problem seems to be deja vu for Ten Hag. He had faced a similar experience while dealing with Ajax.
The moment in question occurred when Ajax hosted Heerenveen in the 27th week of the 2017-2018 Eredivisie. At that time, Amin Younes acted like Ronaldo by refusing Ten Hag’s orders to come on as a substitute before normal time ended.
Ten Hag wanted to bring on Younes shortly after Ajax took a 3-1 lead through Donny van de Beek’s goal in the 88th minute. This change is nothing but the purpose of buying time.
Ten Hag then called Younes who was sitting on the bench to get ready. But the player ignored the instructions and looked away.
After the match, Younes was frozen from the Ajax first team. He was then put into the reserve team or Jong Ajax.
“It’s a shame it turned out to be like this, but I don’t regret it. Amin removed himself from the team and then quit,” Ten Hag said at the time.
“I sincerely wish him the best.”
Tragically, Younes was never re-involved into the first team until the end of the season. Then he left for Napoli on a free transfer.
Another similarity is that Younes had asked to leave in the winter transfer market or a few months before he rejected Ten Hag’s instructions. However, his desire was not achieved and returned to continue his career with Ajax.
Ronaldo also experienced a similar story last summer. It’s no secret that he had asked to leave despite the difficulty of finding an interested club.
Reflecting on this experience, Ronaldo is on the verge of exiting Manchester United. It is possible that Ten Hag will kick him out in the next winter transfer market.
Had that happened, Ronaldo might have played his last game with Manchester United. Ten Hag will not easily forgive the the Portuguese superstar.
But Ronaldo still has a chance not to have the same fate as Younes. One way that can be taken is to have a big heart admitting mistakes and apologizing to Ten Hag.