Ronaldo complains of fans not praising him enough - Ferdinand

Rio Ferdinand has revealed that his former Manchester United teammate Cristiano Ronaldo still complains about not getting enough praise.

Ferdinand claims that Ronaldo still ‘moans about’ how he is regarded by others in the game whenever they speak on the phone.

‘Talent wise, you knew he had it but the mentality was something I thought was different to all these other kids,’ Ferdinand told The Beautiful Game podcast.

‘It was just elite thinking, elite programming, you just think, ‘woah, this kid ain’t satisfied with scoring a last-minute winner away at Fulham’. He wants to do that in the Champions League, he wants to do that for Portugal, the bar was always just being raised and raised and raised.

‘Even now when I chat to him on the phone I’d sit there and I couldn’t even tell you the stuff he moans about.

‘I’m thinking, ‘bruv, cracked it, you’ve conquered the game, but you’re still worried about what people are saying or you’re worried that you’re not getting the adulation that you think you should be getting’.

‘That’s key to what drives people like this. They’re different, they’re made different to all of us.’

Ferdinand spent six years with Ronaldo at United and the pair won three Premier League titles, the Champions League, the FA Cup and the Club World Cup during their time together at Old Trafford.