Erik ten Hag's former assistant Benni McCarthy has claimed that the Dutchman has “wasted” Cristiano Ronaldo.
Manchester United’s manager, 54, has received a lot of backlash after the club got defeated 3-0 to Tottenham at Old Trafford on Sunday.
Benni, West Ham striker, has spend two years as Erik's assistant before he left in the summer.
During a conversation with Zero Zero, he said that his former boss “lacks a bit of that fire, that passion.”
CR7 joined Manchester United in 2003 and later on he left the English team in 2009 to become part of Real Madrid.
Benni continued, "If we work as a team and then let Cristiano do what he needs to do in his position, because he is the best in the world at it, that is ideal. I think Manchester United wasted a great opportunity to use Cristiano in the right way. But I was not the head coach and I could not be the one to make those decisions."
However, Cristiano Ronaldo re-joined Man Utd in 2021 but left less than 18 months later after a fall-out with Erik.
