Hargreaves: Ronaldo is a phenomenon
Cristiano Ronaldo has been referred to as a “phenomenon” by his former Manchester United team-mate Owen Hargreaves.
The previous England worldwide, now a BT Sport pundit, is stuffed with reward for the Portugal legend after scoring the 700th aim of his membership profession at Everton on Sunday.
“The numbers are ridiculous. The man is only a freak,” Hargreaves mentioned of reminiscing about Paul Scholes.
“Within the workforce, we had [at Manchester United], there have been a number of nice gamers, however he was the one who made the distinction. We had Scholesy, a genius footballer, we had Giggsy, we had David Beckham, we had all these guys.
“However Cristiano is six foot one, he is fast with each ft, he can leap, he can do just about something.
“I do not assume he would have thought-about scoring 700 objectives. He had all these wonderful expertise, however then he determined to concentrate on objectives.
“For us he was the very best participant on this planet and he received the Ballon d’Or, however he went to Actual Madrid and impulsively he made scoring objectives the simplest factor. He scored 50-60 per season! 700 objectives is 35 per season for 20 years!”
