Cristiano Ronaldo did not take kindly to being shouted at by Sir Alex Ferguson, according to a former Manchester United team-mate.
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Superstar forward did not like Sir Alex shouting at himFiery Scot changed his approach as a resultFormer captain was not close with managerFollow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱WHAT HAPPENED?
Former United captain Nemanja Vidić was speaking on , brought to you by Sky Bet, about Ferguson's famous confrontational style. And he revealed that the man whose explosive rants were nicknamed 'the hairdryer' was forced to soften his approach due to Ronaldo's reaction to being on the end of one of his tirades.
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Vidic said: "What he realised – it’s not that he didn’t shout at me because he was scared of anyone, but he realised that with certain players, it would not help if he’s shouting. I think he changed that after he shouted at Cristiano Ronaldo. I don’t think Ronaldo took it well – maybe good for the English and British players, but he was careful with the foreign players."
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Vidic was named captain by Ferguson in 2011 after Gary Neville retired but the Serbian explained that he did not have an especially close relationship with the legendary manager. He said: "With the manager I never had a close relationship. If he asked me something I would tell him, but I never had that [relationship]. Rio [Ferdinand] or Fletch [Darren Fletcher] would talk more."
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Vidic left United one year after Ferguson retired in 2013. And he criticised successor David Moyes for not imposing his character on the team. "I felt like he was insecure with what he was going to do – was he going to play his football or was he going to let us play the football we were playing before. It was difficult coming to Manchester United, having a team which had just won the Premier League and having players who had won so many trophies for the club, for him to say that he was going to play his type of football. We thought that he was going to be more precise with his ideas, but he was more like, 'do whatever you think is right, do what you did before'. That’s something I think that we could have done better, or David could have had more character to state that this was the way we were going to play."