Carragher mocks Ronaldo 'fan boy' Rio Ferdinand in WhatsApp group

Jamie Carragher has urged Rio Ferdinand not to be a Cristiano Ronaldo 'fan boy' in a Twitter spat between the pundit duo.

Erik ten Hag left Ronaldo on the bench in the brutal 6-3 loss to Manchester City and Ferdinand slammed the Dutch boss for not turning to the legendary forward.

Ferdinand said on his YouTube channel: "You can't have your top scorer, who scores 24 or 25 goals a season, on the bench. I'm sorry.

"People keep talking about it... And I see Roy Keane talking about it and I totally agree: why are we so concerned that people aren't doing all the time? What's he good at? The hardest thing to do in football is to score goals and this guy does it as well as, if not better than, anyone."

And the former Manchester United centre-back used a Twitter video of his thoughts on CR7 in response to Carragher's belief that it was 'laughable' for people to think Ten hag should have played the striker .

Carragher tweeted on Monday: "The idea that ETH got it wrong yesterday by not playing against Ronaldo is laughable," the Anfield icon wrote. "Ronaldo played Brentford when it was 4-0 at the end!! It's not a dig at CR but Rashford's pace on the counter attack as we saw against Arsenal/Liverpool was at 100% the best option.'

Along with the video, Ferdinand replied: 'Carra, are you still upset he didn't shake your hand at Old Trafford? The hardest thing to do in football is to score goals. '

Ferdinand has been quick to defend his former team-mate since returning to Old Trafford at the start of last season and Carragher's response suggested Rio was asked by Ronaldo to defend him on WhatsApp.

"No, I'm so glad it went viral," Carragher wrote.

"Rio I know how it works, it's your mate and you/Evra and the others are on the whatsapp group and he's asking you to come out and defend him, don't be his fan boy you're Rio Ferdinand for FFS!"

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