Tyson Fury believes Cristiano Ronaldo is overshadowing other players at Manchester United

Boxing legend Tyson Fury has delivered his opinion on Manchester United’s disastrous 2021/22 season.

Speaking to The Mirror, the retired heavyweight champion claimed Cristiano Ronaldo’s empathic return to Old Trafford may have played a role in the club’s decline on the previous season, despite the Portuguese scoring 18 Premier League goals.

Manchester United finished second in the league in the 2020/21 season and were expected to mount another title challenge with the signing of Ronaldo.

However, United scraped a mediocre sixth-placed finish, consequently finishing a staggering 35 points behind City rivals, and eventual champions, Manchester City.

The season saw the club appoint three managers with Ralf Rangnick replacing Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as interim boss before announcing Erik ten Hag as the man to take the club forward.

Ronaldo is considered one of the GOATs of the sport and was considered to be the match-winner that United required to win back the Premier League title.

The Portuguese star scored 24 goals for United last season, finishing top scorer for the club, and was controversially named in the Premier League Team of the Season.

The superstar is reported to be happy at Old Trafford and is looking to go again next season under his new boss.

However, Fury has a theory that the return of Ronaldo played a role in Manchester United dropping from a second-place finish to a sixth-placed finish the following season.

The Gypsy King claimed: “It’s good news Ronaldo is staying on, but here’s a theory; when they didn’t have him the season before last, they finished second in the Premier League, then we had Ronaldo and we finished sixth.

“People will say, ‘Well, if we hadn’t had him scoring 20 goals we’d have finished a lot