Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville has taken to social media to respond to ex-teammate Cristiano Ronaldo after the Reds forward suggested the pundit was only using him for fame.
Ronaldo criticised Neville and Wayne Rooney during his interview with Piers Morgan, with the 37-year-old also claiming that the club had 'betrayed' him.
Ronaldo claimed that Neville was attempting to 'take advantage' of him because he is the 'number one followed guy in the world' and that the Sky Sports pundit was using his name for 'fame'.
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Neville reacted to Ronaldo's comments on Twitter, tweeting: "Anyone for dinner?", which came in response to the United striker's claim that the pair were not friends and did not go out for dinner together.
Speaking about Neville, the former Real Madrid star said: "To listen as ex-colleagues or team-mates criticise you, when they only see one point of view. It's easy.
"It's easy to criticise, I don't know if you have a job in television that they must criticise to be more famous. I really don't understand it. It's hard when you see people who were in the dressing room with you criticising that way."
He added: "I think they take advantage of that because they are not stupid,' Ronaldo said. 'I'm the number one followed guy in the world. It's not by coincidence."
The Portugal captain also slammed his former strike partner Rooney, suggesting that the Reds' all-time record goalscorer was 'probably' jealous of him.
"Me too (I'm surprised about this). Piers, I don't understand. You should ask the questions to him," he said. "I don't know. I don't know why he criticised me so badly. Probably (it's jealously). Probably - because he finished his career in his 30s. I'm still playing at a high level; I'm not going to say that I'm looking better than him, which is true.
"It's hard to listen to that sort of criticism and negativity from people who play with you, for example Gary Neville as well. People can have their own opinion but they don't know what is going inside the training ground at Carrington - or even my life.
"They shouldn't listen to one point of view - they should listen to my point of view as well, because it's easy to criticise [when] you don't know the whole story.
"They are not my friends, they are colleagues. We play together, they're not coming, we're not ever having dinner together."
Ronaldo snubbed Neville prior to United's Premier League clash against West Ham in October, but made an effort to embrace former teammate Louis Saha - who was working on the panel for Sky Sports - and Jamie Redknapp in front of the 47-year-old.
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