Former Real Madrid coach Bernd Schuster doubts Cristiano Ronaldo is trying to undermine coach Rafa Benitez.
It's claimed Ronaldo has complained to Real president Florentino Perez about Benitez.
But Schuster told AS: "I have my doubts about that. Cristiano is too professional for that, too cooperative.
"I've never seen him criticising a coach like that before, not here or at any other team, he learned at the English school of discretion, and he learned well. I don't believe it. Managers always talk to players and sometimes with the senior ones about tactics. The unpleasant things are what they talk about outside the club."