'I'm not blaming Cristiano Ronaldo but...' - Ralf Rangnick admits striker not a 'pressing monster'

Ralf Rangnick has refused to blame Cristiano Ronaldo for the club's poor season, but admits the striker is not suited to a pressing style. Ronalso was one of the few bright lights in a dismal season for United, scoring 24 goals across 39 games in all competitions.

Ad/> But he has come under fire from fans and pundits for not pressing high up the pitch, a quality that has come to define Ralf Rangnick's football at previous clubs. Premier LeagueRonaldo set to miss Manchester United's Premier League finale at Crystal Palace in front of Ten Hag16 HOURS AGO But Rangnick refused to blame the striker for the failures of his time in charge.

«Cristiano Ronaldo, and I’m not blaming him at all, he did great in those games,» he said. «But he’s not a pressing monster.

He’s not a player, even when he was a young player, who was crying, shouting 'hooray, the other team has got the ball, where can we win balls? »The same with quite a few other players so we had to make some compromises at one stage, maybe we made a few too many — that’s also possible." Rangnick has criticised the club's lack of action in the January transfer window, especially with regards to reinforcements in attack. But as the German takes on a behind the scenes role at the club, he promised that incoming boss Erik Ten Hag will having backing in the transfer market.

«We spoke about the last transfer window in January where we and the board decided not to sign any players but this is different now,» he added. «In this summer window there will be some new players and Erik will also have some influence on which kind of player he wants.» «That [signing new players] will happen in this window and hopefully the next two windows and I think it's obvious to everybody for the