AC Milan veteran Zlatan Ibrahimovic believes that people will never know the 'true story' behind Cristiano Ronaldo's exit from Manchester United.

The Portugal forward left United days after giving an interview to Piers Morgan, where he criticized the club's hierarchy and manager Erik ten Hag.

United then allowed Ronaldo to terminate his contract by mutual consent before the World Cup.

“His exiting United, I think when things happen, we will never know the true story," Ibrahimovic told reporters in Dubai.

“They say what they want to say, he says what he needs to say to protect himself, then you have the coach that says these things to protect himself.

“Then the club says things – not like me, I will tell you how it really happened. But we are all different. Everybody is careful about their image.

“For me the perfect image is being yourself. The true story we will not know my friend."