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Prospective Manchester United owner Thomas Zilliacus has credited Erik ten Hag for his strong decision on Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Finnish entrepreneur believes United are ‘significantly better’ without Ronaldo in the attack.

And he has hailed Ten Hag for making the strong decision at such an early stage of his Old Trafford tenure.

He told NOS: “From what I’ve seen, he’s a brilliant manager. What he did with Ajax was amazing, and what he’s done now with Manchester United is equally amazing.

“Because early in the season, things didn’t look very good. And he had the courage, which I really admire, to tell even big established stars such as Cristiano Ronaldo, ‘look, this is me running this, and this is how I need to do’.

“And that led Ronaldo to leave the club, which now seems to have been a good move because the club is doing significantly better without him.”