Harry Maguire ought to see his Manchester United captaincy stripped if Erik ten Hag takes Ralf Rangnick’s recommendation over choosing a new chief.
Maguire has installed numerous disappointing performances this season. His bad shape coincides with that of the membership. They sit sixth within the Premier League with four matches left.
Reports recommend Ten Hag will make a few severe modifications when becoming Manchester United boss this summer time.
Maguire is one of the players who could lose his beginning spot if his shape doesn’t pick out up on the stop of this season and towards the begin of the next one.
The England international could characteristic when United host Chelsea in the league on Thursday night.
At the pre-in shape press conference, Rangnick was asked if Maguire have to live as United captain under Ten Hag. He responded (via Metro): “I recognize your question, but again I assume it doesn’t make experience due to the fact you don’t realize which sort of players may be here, what the institution will appear like.
“I can most effective inform what I even have done in the past once I was the pinnacle train or the supervisor. In Germany it’s referred to as ‘in shape kapitan’, so the captain of the group.
“I strongly trust that the captain must be elected by way of the team because he’s known as the team supervisor, and we usually did that.
“We continually had a board of 4 or five gamers, we known as it the ‘spielkapitan’, elected by using the players. The participant with the highest amount of votes was the crew captain at the stop.
“That’s how I did it, I recognize that no longer quite a few head coaches do it that way.”