Ronaldo responds to Rooney’s Messi GOAT claim: “No football friends” | OneFootball

Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney formed one of the best duos of all time in European football, and one of the most memorable at Manchester United. However, now retired, the English striker has admitted on several occasions that, in his view, Lionel Messi is the greatest of all time, and superior to Cristiano.

In recent days, Cristiano Ronaldo was interviewed by Piers Morgan and addressed the statements made by his former Manchester United teammate. And, after the British journalist pressed him for an answer, he finally gave one: “I have no problem with that, he can choose whoever he wants.”

And although that was his initial response, the journalist was not satisfied, asked for more, and Cristiano Ronaldo elaborated: “Believe me, Piers, I have nothing against him (Rooney). It’s fine, for me it’s not a problem, I respect him and I thank him for what he said about me. If we see each other, I’ll shake his hand, give him a hug, everything’s fine.”

“When we played together we had a good relationship, I wouldn’t say we were friends like the ones I have who come over once or twice a week to eat with me, but we had a good relationship,” he explained about his relationship with Rooney.

“I don’t have football friends who come over to my house for dinner or lunch,” Cristiano Ronaldo emphasized. “When I refer to friends, for me it’s a different word. In football I’ve had good relationships with my teammates, but they’re not friends. Friends, for me, is a very, very, very deep word.”

Rooney chose Messi over Cristiano Ronaldo

There have been many times when Wayne Rooney has been asked who, in his view, is the greatest of all time. And he has always chosen the Argentine. “Cristiano Ronaldo or Messi? Messi. I’ve said it before: the two of them are probably the two best footballers who have ever played, but I just think Messi is, in my eyes, the greatest of all time,” he confessed in a conversation with the podcast Pardon my Take.

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