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David de Gea has named Cristiano Ronaldo among the best players who shared a dressing room with his 12 -year -old spell on Manchester United. Now in Fiorentina, he looked back his time at Old Trafford and chose the five strikers who stood out as the most powerful.
The ex -Red Devils Porter explained how these attackers would keep it centered while training in an interview with the Repubblica (via Stretty News):
“Van Persie, Cristiano Ronaldo, Rooney, Ibrahimovic and Lukaku. But when they did not mark against me in training, they also frustrated.”
Van Persie pushed the club to his latest Premier League title in 2013, two years after Gea passed from Atletico Madrid to Old Trafford. Wayne Rooney was easily a club legend at that time. Zlatan Ibrahimovic had a productive season 2016/17, bringing the club to win the EFL Cup, the Community Shield and the Europa League.
Romelu Lukaku He could have struggled to impress Manchester United, but De Gea has reason for his admiration for the great Belgian striker. Cristiano Ronaldo left Old Trafford before the Spanish goalkeeper joined with the club. However, he returned for a second spell in 2021 and played until November 2023.
Former midfielder reveals how Cristiano Ronaldo changed his focus on physical form at Manchester United
Danny Drinkwater He has revealed how Cristiano Ronaldo's labor ethics changed his mentality when they were teammates in his career at Manchester United. The ex -Migcampista came to the Books of United as a young man and came to see the appearance of Ronaldo as a star.
Although Drinkwater never played for the United Senior Team, he recalls how Ronaldo returned from the summer holidays in the best form of his life. Told Rio Ferdinand present (through the mirror):
“I remember returning (in the preseason) and it seemed that, I don't know, it seemed that he broke the gym for a whole year, man. And I remember thinking:” Wow, as if it were in the first team and did it, as if we had ages to go there. “And I remember then I started taking the gym seriously.”
Drinkwater won the Premier League with Leicester in 2016 before a money transfer to Chelsea. Cristiano Ronaldo, meanwhile, won the Golden Ballon at Manchester United, before his Mega-Move Real Madrid In 2009, where he won four more Ballons.
Edited by Vaishnavi Iyer
