Piers Morgan, a British journalist known for having exclusives about Cristiano Ronaldo, further fueled the controversy around the Portuguese national team captain and Jorge Jesus, revealing new information about what happened.
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05/10/2026
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Vi'm gonna crack the varnish again. Piers Morgan gave, this Monday, new information about the controversy between Cristiano Ronaldo and Jorge Jesus so that the captain of the national team would abandon the internship and the case is not very well stopped at this time.
“There’s a phrase from Carlo Ancelotti when he talked about Luka Modric, when he didn’t put him on the field in Real Madrid, in a game, and didn’t put him warm. He said he wouldn't get warmed up by a player of that caliber if it wasn't to play him. This has nothing to do with money, fame, none of that. He was given absolute assurances as to how it would be used. It was one of the reasons that led him to continue his career in the selection ", began by affirming the journalist in his program Sports Uncensored.
About the way the Portuguese selector handled things, by allegedly making promises about the time that Cristiano Ronaldo was going to play, the British has no doubt that he acted incorrectly with a player like the Portuguese seven shirt.
“The new coach, Jorge Jesus, who knows him from Saudi Arabia, told him that he would play the first two games and rest the other two. And in the first game he was told he would play the 90 minutes. It was replaced at 67 minutes and was frustrated”, continued.
“ Then the coach apologized to Cristiano and the president of the FPF and said he would publicly apologize and say that this should not have happened this way. But he ended up doing the opposite. What Jorge Jesus did was to diminish and humiliate Cristiano Ronaldo, saying that all players are important – something that also irritated Cristiano”, explained Piers Morgan.
“Then he said he would give only 30 minutes in front of Norway, to which he replied ‘OK, if that’s what you want, I agree’. But the game comes, stays on the bench, heats up for 25 minutes and never gets on the field. He was even more irritated by lack of respect ", scored.
“ Jesus went back several times and Ronaldo said ‘go f****’ and called the plane”
When everything seemed to be about the minutes, the theme gained other dimensions and Piers Morgan admits something that Cristiano Ronaldo allegedly told Jorge Jesus after so many mistrusts in a few days.
“ You can even say that Portugal won both games, but when Portugal won the League of Nations, who scored in the final? Cristiano Ronaldo. So don't give me the conversation you're better off without him. Throughout this process, this coach looks Cristiano Ronaldo in the eye, the best Portuguese player of all time, and goes back in the word, and Ronaldo said ‘Go f****’ and put himself on a plane. Because the coach went to the press conferences to say exactly the opposite of what he said in private ", revealed.
Simon Jordan, another commentator of the program, began to consider that Piers Morgan was being partial due to his admiration for Cristiano Ronaldo, since he “did not hear what was said to the player and is speculating” because he was a fan of the Portuguese captain, to which the British journalist responded with the argument of “he is honest”.
“Cristiano does not think that he should play all the games or that he should always play the 90 minutes of the games. That's not what this is about. Why don't we ask Jorge Jesus if he apologized to Ronaldo, if the president of FPF also knows that it was said that the coach was wrong and if, in recent weeks, he treated Cristiano like any district player, who can treat as m****. It is incredibly disrespectful”, pointed Piers Morgan before finishing the discussion on the subject.
“ Let's not forget that Jorge Jesus was not good enough as a player to represent the national team and now he's trying to diminish the best Portuguese player in history. And one more thing. His financial impact on Portugal should not be ignored. He's the one who generates the most money and we'll see what the stands will look like without Cristiano Ronaldo. I think, unlike Messi with Argentina, Ronaldo will never have a final game for Portugal, because of a coach ", concluded.

