Portugal manager Fernando Santos and Cristiano Ronaldo . Image: Alamy Stock Photo PORTUGAL COACH Fernando Santos admitted on Friday that Cristiano Ronaldo had been unhappy to be dropped to the bench as he pleaded for a line to be drawn under the affair.
The Portuguese football federation denied the report and Ronaldo himself took to social media to state that the squad was “too united to be broken by outside forces”. Santos said five-time Ballon d’Or winner Ronaldo never threatened to leave the team camp, although he was upset about being dropped. “Of course, he accepted. We had a frank and normal conversation, he has never told me he wanted to leave our national team.”
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