They may have been Manchester United teammates for six trophy-laden seasons, but Cristiano Ronaldo and Gary Neville's relationship has disintegrated over the last month.
This has culminated in Ronaldo hitting out at Neville in his startling Piers Morgan interview and the latter responding sarcastically on social media. Divisions between the two former colleagues were heightened in mid-October, when former the England defender exclusively told Mirror Football that Ronaldo must "accept that he won't play every single game".
This advice did not go down well with the five-time Ballon d'Or winner, who remains as determined as ever to play every game, even aged 37. A matter of days after Neville made his comments, Ronaldo refused to come off the bench against Tottenham, making it abundantly clear that he will not "accept" being a squad player rather than a starting XI mainstay.
