“I have never seen a 36-year-old player as fit as Cristiano Ronaldo”

Ralf Rangnick, Manchester United’s new coach, assured that he has never seen any player so fit with 36 years as Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Portuguese arrived this Thursday at the figure of 801 goals in his sports career with the two that he did to Arsenal.

However, the role that Cristiano will play at Manchester United with Rangnick, a coach who intends to instill a system of pressure that involves the whole team, is an uncertainty.

“You have to adapt to the players you have available“, said the German, who offered this Friday his first press conference as coach of the ‘Red Devils’.

“To see Cristiano yesterday in the second half, at 36 years old … I have never seen a player so fit. He is still a footballer who can make a difference easily. Yesterday I saw Cristiano press, so I think he is more than willing to do it. His companions they will have to do the same “he added.

The German will have the first opportunity to give Cristiano the starting role this Sunday in the duel at Old Trafford against Crystal Palace.

The Portuguese striker has said goodbye this Friday to Michael Carrick, the interim coach who has led ManUnited between the departure of Solskjaer and the arrival of Rangnick.

Cristiano Ronaldo has posted a message on Twitter in which he emphasizes that Carrik was “a high class player and it can also be a great coach, nothing is impossible for him. “And he claims to feel” proud to have played with him on the field and later on the bench. “

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