Gary Neville admits he ‘lost faith’ with former Manchester United teammate Cristiano Ronaldo shortly after his arrival at the club – but when he finally caught up to the then-superior Wayne Rooney, it added up to ‘the best United team I’ve ever seen’.
hit the ground running at following his move from Everton as a teenager in 2004, but – who had arrived from Sporting the year before – initially flattered to deceive and looked a far inferior player.
Gary Neville: ‘Cristiano Ronaldo frustrated Manchester United players’
However, while Rooney arrived with the barrel-shaped frame he would have for the rest of his career, Ronaldo was able to transform his body and mind from a lightweight idiot to an imposing Adonis with robot-like precision, eventually…