World Cup: ‘You’re massive problem for Portugal’ – Nicky Butt to Ronaldo

Former Manchester United man, Nicky Butt, has noted that Portugal manager, Roberto Martinez has a ‘massive problem’ connected his hands successful 41-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo.

This is contempt Martinez defending his determination not to sub disconnected the Al Nassr guardant successful their disappointing 1-1 gully with DR Congo on Wednesday.

The Spanish manager refused to straight question Ronaldo’s mostly anonymous showing astatine his post-match property conference, alternatively pinning the blasted connected an evident deficiency of enactment successful attack.

Butt said on The Good, The Bad & The Football podcast, “I deliberation he’s got that overmuch of an ego, Cristiano. He’s a large lad but he’s got specified an ego and he’ll beryllium a monolithic occupation for that squad.

“He was erstwhile helium came backmost to Manchester United for a 2nd time, it was a problem.

“If you look astatine the fans [for Portugal’s gully with DR Congo] past night, they had astir 20,000 Portuguese fans and I reckon 18,000 had ‘Ronaldo 7’ connected their backmost truthful you’ve besides got that to woody with arsenic a manager arsenic well.”

Martinez told reporters aft the game, “We person to util...