Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher claims that Cristiano Ronaldo is longer 'worth the hassle' for managers following his Manchester United departure.
The Red Devils and Ronaldo parted ways last month after the player criticised the club, teammates and manager Erik ten Hag in an interview with Piers Morgan.
Carragher claims previous managers have always accepted Ronaldo's character and behaviour due to his exceptional performances on the pitches.
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"Ronaldo hasn't changed, he's always been that sort of character, everyone's known that – but he was worth the hassle," Carragher said on on Steven Bartlett's Diary Of A CEO podcast, as per talkSPORT.
"And that's like everything in football, when we talk about a manager making a decision, can you put up with that?
"You don't cut off your nose to spite your face, but when it gets to that stage where you're thinking 'this is becoming more of a problem,' when a manager looks at you as a player, every manager wants the same thing: high performance, low maintenance. That's it.
"When it starts getting weighted to the high maintenance and the scales are more tilted towards high maintenance, it's time to go."
