Insight provided into chances of Ronaldo replacing Maguire as Man United captain

By Conor Laird


Printed: February 18, 2022 12:00 am

Final Up to date: February 18, 2022 12:06 am

Phrase stemming from the English media on Thursday night time factors in direction of recent stress within the Manchester United dressing room, amid rising strain on the shoulders of captain Harry Maguire.

The topic of Maguire’s standing as lead member of Ralf Rangnick’s squad has in fact come again to the fore in a significant method of late.

This comes owing to a lower than spectacular stretch of kind on the a part of each the English worldwide himself, and United as a collective unit.

In flip, it has been prompt that the previous Leicester Metropolis star could possibly be relieved of the burden of the captain’s armband at Outdated Trafford, in a bid to rediscover his greatest kind.

WATFORD, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 20: Harry Maguire complains to match referee Jonathon Moss throughout the Premier League match between Watford and Manchester United at Vicarage Highway on November 20, 2021 in Watford, England. (Photograph by Alex Pantling/Getty Photographs)

And, on Thursday, a recent perception into exactly this chance has been offered.

The information comes courtesy of David McDonnell of The Mirror, who goes so far as to counsel that ‘Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Maguire are embroiled in an influence battle over the Manchester United captaincy’.

Ronaldo, Maguire and Ralf Rangnick are understood to have held discussions over the prospect of United’s veteran attacker taking up the duty of the armband for the rest of the marketing campaign.

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The membership’s present skipper, nonetheless, stays ‘reluctant’ to comply with as a lot, amid fears of dropping his function as captain of the membership on a everlasting foundation.

Maguire has been left to really feel ‘undermined’ by the extent of Ronaldo’s affect within the dressing room at Outdated Trafford, with it considerably even claimed {that a} rising variety of the membership’s stars consider it’s only a matter of time earlier than the Portuguese certainly replaces his defensive teammate as Rangnick’s chief chief on the pitch.

EXCLUSIVE Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Maguire in Man Utd captaincy row as Ralf Rangnick faces recent disaster

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Turning attentions again in direction of the motion on the pitch itself, Manchester United will in fact return to motion this coming Sunday, in a highly-anticipated Premier League showdown with long-time rivals Leeds.

The conflict marks an important one for either side, with Marcelo Bielsa’s Peacocks within the midst of a tense battle towards the drop again to the Championship.

Sunday’s guests to Elland Highway, then again, stay within the thick of the combat for a top-4 berth, having climbed again above West Ham into the English top-flight’s closing Champions League spot courtesy of a 2-0 downing of Brighton on Tuesday night time.

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