Ronaldo s upfront and never shakes the manager s hand - Craig Burley slams Manchester United and says their players are a disgrace to their profession × Follow Us Create Notifications New User posted their first comment this is comment text Link Approve Reject & ban Delete Log in Manage your profile Editing Story Queue Video Queue Editing Stats Writer Home SEO Redirection Admin Gaming Wiki Edits Taxonomy Home Edit Site Menu Mapping Dashboard Tag Pages Community Social Feed Queue Feed Center Notification Center Affiliate Home Manage Pages Bottom Tagline Dash Timeless Stories Logout Football EPL 2022-23 News Ronaldo s upfront and never shakes the manager s hand - Craig Burley slams Manchester United and says their players are a disgrace to their profession By Vatsal Vora Modified 17 Aug 2022 Follow Us Comment Share Manchester United suffered a humiliating defeat against Brentford. Former Chelsea midfielder and ESPN pundit Craig Burley has lambasted Cristiano Ronaldo and Manchester United following their 4-0 defeat against Brentford in the Premier League. The Red Devils were down by four goals by half-time with David de Gea's errors and generally shambolic defending costing Erik ten Hag's side dearly. United are currently winless in the Premier League after two games. They lost 2-1 to Brighton & Hove Albion in their opening league game at Old Trafford last weekend. Burley was particularly critical of Ronaldo, calling his antics a "soap opera." Following the final whistle, the forward looked dejected and even refused to shake hands with manager Ten Hag before walking down the tunnel. The former Chelsea midfielder also criticized David de Gea for his errors while stating that Manchester United had enough to defeat the Bees. Speaking on ESPN FC, Burley said: "Ronaldo's upfront and never shakes the manager's hand, that's been a soap story and David de Gea had an absolute nightmare. Even if you say it's an awful Man United team, I get it but it's Brentford, no closing down, no second balls, no fight, no passion." Burley added that Brentford players were hungrier, which could not be said about Manchester United's superstars. He also questioned the United players' professionalism after a second sobering defeat. "Let's just say to a man, those players are a disgrace to their profession. I'll tell you why, we can all lose games, we can all have bad performances but individually would any of those Brentford players really have got into that Man United team? But they are super hungry, they want to be in the PL." He added about the likes of Luke Shaw, Harry Maguire, Diogo Dalot and others: "I mean Shaw's an international, Maguire's played in a WC semi-final, Dalot is an international, Jadon Sancho is not worth a million, never mind a 100 million at the moment, Marcus Rashford, PSG want him, he wouldn't go to one of the newly promoted teams in the league." Sky Sports Premier League@SkySportsPL"It's a real achievement to spend a billion pounds and be this bad" Brentford's starting XI: £55mManchester United's starting XI: £424m121172078"It's a real achievement to spend a billion pounds and be this bad" Brentford's starting XI: £55mManchester United's starting XI: £424m https://t.co/SeNGiIohfX Craig Burley questions Ten Hag s tactics after Manchester United suffer defeat at Brentford Burley also questioned why Ten Hag hasn't been able to implement his preferred tactical set-up against Brentford: "Where's the new pressing game that Ten Hag's been saying? Where's the tactics, just outplayed and outfought by Brentford? That doesn't need 500 million in the transfer market to put right, that doesn't need new players." He concluded: "It needs new attitude and these players for some reason are reluctant to go on the field and do the basics, it's quite scary."talkSPORT@talkSPORTCristiano Ronaldo was visibly angry following Manchester United's hammering to Brentford #MUFC talksport.com/football/11704…17211Cristiano Ronaldo was visibly angry following Manchester United's hammering to Brentford #MUFC talksport.com/football/11704… Manchester United will look to pick up their first points of the season when they take on Liverpool at Old Trafford on August 22. Paul Merson predicts Arsenal vs Liverpool and other EPL GW 10 fixtures! Click here Poll : 0 votes Quick Links More from Sportskeeda Edited by Anantaajith Ra × Feedback Thank You! 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