Cristiano Ronaldo refused to acknowledge travelling Manchester United fans despite Erik ten Hag's assistant coach Steve McClaren reportedly asking him to applaud them after their 4-0 defeat away at Brentford.
Josh Dasilva, Mathias Jensen, Ben Mee and Bryan Mbuemo netted one each to lead the Bees to a thrashing of the Red Devils on Saturday.
According to Manchester Evening News, Ronaldo and McLaren were spotted on the sidelines having a discussion at full time, before the former went down the tunnel and into the dressing room.
Manchester United have now lost both their two first games of the season under new coach Ten Hag.
Ronaldo had previously handed in a transfer request, missing large part of the team's pre-season preparations.
The Portuguese star was introduced into the starting line-up and played the full 90 minutes at the Gtech Community Stadium. However, he couldn't prevent his team from losing to Brentford.
Ronaldo snubbed the Manchester United fans, but some players did head to the supporters after the final whistle.
The selection of players included David De Gea, Scott McTominay, Anthony Elanga, Marcus Rashford, Bruno Fernandes, Donny Van de Beek and Diogo Dalot.
Captain Harry Maguire didn't go over to the travelling fans, but he did applaud them from distance.
Criticism of Manchester United's summer business
Meanwhile, TV pundit Gary Neville hit out at the club for having failed to strengthen the team with solid new signings this summer.
"Manchester United have known for eight to 10 months they've needed to rebuild the squad for the summer," he told Sky Sports.
"Ralf Rangnick described it as open heart surgery. To not get the players in early - the quality of players, the number of players - is baffling and difficult to forgive.
"It's not a stalled market - teams have got their business done. Every club seems to have a plan and Manchester United's seems to be, 'let's just look at the Dutch league or players that have worked under Ten Hag'.
"That is not a strategy - you can't do that. That was 15 years ago. You've got to have players identified and the work's been done with the agents."
lekcdemnpy
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wudbimnprz
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Ronaldo needs to leave Man United
you should leave United not cr7
wudbimnprz
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Last match was mostly because of De gea fault and who cares they want to blame cr7 for it.
exactly......everything started with the goal keeper but nobody is accusing him, instead cr7 is one taking all the blames....but for the why?????
FrankUtd
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No Cristiano Ronaldo no All Football
cuzdeiklru
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Rubbish and useless talk or news
Weobciloyz
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Ronaldo drinks water and eat food.. this will be next headline.🤣🤣🤣
Weobciloyz
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Last match was mostly because of De gea fault and who cares they want to blame cr7 for it.
bizcklpt
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Like I say 10 year ago he just play for himself not a team play
Abdullah7Khan
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CR7 not a defender or not a goalkefer... and you know all goals and error from these playerss...
Covid-21
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That should be the last thing to care about atm
Soyamntuy
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So what
ItzUsha
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maguire should be dropped play varane n martine play the other guy in front of shaw n play van beek defensive mid field. build the team from scratch. play the youngsters
Not a Man Utd fan but this is the best comment I’ve seen so far..kudos to you for your football knowledge and vision, what Ten Hag needs now is to start from scratch just like you stated, starting playing players who are hungry for game time and want’s to deliver.. young young players who will fight like their life depends on it to just prove a point.. players like Malacia, Van de beek, Zidan, Savage, Varane, Martinez and even Garnacho and Wan Bissaka… put away all this ego and big players out and start from the little who will die to prove a point.. the earlier he realizes that these big big ones can’t do more than they’re doing now the better it will be for him.. start building the team with the younger ones and let the big ones start fighting for their place back.. those are the boys that did it for him during that preseason and it’s time to start believing in them or never… just my verdict as a football fan✌️
Zokapee
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Leave this man mehn!! Let this man breathe wTF!!
BigBoss999
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They don’t deserve applaud for the humiliating match and he knows that and the fan knows!!! What a disgusting 🤮
Cetcilmy
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gula cr7
EmeraldJ
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Leave him alone. He is a goal getter not a man on picnic
miodeksu
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Bcos of u the team look faded Cr7...blame u first before blaming others
Piubemort
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Ronaldo needs to leave Man United
Prisarth
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So is this one to an issue 🥱🥱🥱
Ronacekmop
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Never return to your Ex
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literally
Ronacekmop
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every team ronald went to after real madrid turn to immediate problem. juventus one of the most consistence team within europe fell n now it has to be rebuild . man utd shoild let him leave to anyone
yes I think so
Abelmartin
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I am back where I belong, I am home[Crylaugh]
21741774(deleted)
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wat exactly did CR7 do AF??
Duwaiksyz
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All football if you have the chance to kill Cr7 you will... you guys are so pathetic 🤦
Vatabcemsy
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every team ronald went to after real madrid turn to immediate problem. juventus one of the most consistence team within europe fell n now it has to be rebuild . man utd shoild let him leave to anyone
Vatabcemsy
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maguire should be dropped play varane n martine play the other guy in front of shaw n play van beek defensive mid field. build the team from scratch. play the youngsters
saf_saif
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He Deserved better
j1collins
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Never return to your Ex
j1collins
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never return to your Ex
Dante408
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all sports please remove the above post,my entire family uses the app, this is wrong
JoyNg
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Cristiano Ronaldo made his professional football debut for Sporting CP on this day 20 years ago 🐐 And the rest is HISTORY😍😍🐐👑
RicarMoreno
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GOAT CR7 🤣🤣🤣🤣