Angry and confused. Man thinks he's Rooney
Maguire is no longer United captain
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I'm reading that as a sarcastic dig
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If I were in Maguire's shoes, I'd be upset enough to hand in that transfer request immediately to West Ham or Everton. There are principles of how a club ought to be properly run.
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It sounds to me like the club are trying to find a way to move him on in the most cost effective way with the stumbling block being his outstanding wages which he won’t get near anywhere else. He’s within his rights to expect United to cough up every penny of the difference and United are quite reasonably thinking that he would rather cut his losses rather than his career.
Yet when I do this on Football Manager the squad mutiny within a week.
This is a powerplay to force Maguire to look elsewhere. I heard West Ham have come into some money recently 
He definitely has captain material, but making him captain would be going down the same path Ole did with the fridge, making him captain soon after joining. Licha would be a good captain post Bruno
The club, rightly, would have given him the option I’d imagine. Pretty respectful allowing him to release the news as he sees fit. I’m glad I don’t work for half the posters on here.
The captaincy isn't really important. Unless you want to credit Maguire with us getting 3rd and a trophy last season.
It's a ceremonial role represented by a piece of cloth. A hold-over from cricket where it actually means something.
It's a ceremonial role represented by a piece of cloth. A hold-over from cricket where it actually means something.
I doubt even ETH will be capable of that, sadly.
Ashley Young was an ideal captain: long serving, popular with all factions in the dressing room, exemplary professional, vocal on the pitch. Yet people constantly moaned about him.
In a nutshell Harry, “Take a fecking hint”.
You don’t remember Robbo or. Keane then? Other greats that went before them such as Bobby Charlton. A good captain is worth his weight in gold, he gets the team going by leading by example and other players look up to them and respect them, they are the managers mouthpiece on the pitch, well a good one is and that is something we have lacked for quite some time.
I don’t see another club giving him equal to the wage he’s on just now and I can’t see him dropping to 100k a week. I reckon we will have a Bale and Madrid situation here for the next 2 years.
Harry finally taking the hint *slow hand clap*
As I said earlier only this or being dropped by Southgate is the only way it would get through to him
Martinez, Bruno and Casemiro could all do that without being club captain.
If they'd been captain instead of Maguire, we wouldn't have performed any better last season.
He's shit the bed a lot, and he's clearly not at the level required, but I don't have as much hate for him, or think he's as bad as he's looked, as some.
All that said, dropped as a first choice player, stripped of the captaincy, by a manager who clearly has no faith in him... even if just for personal pride, he'd surely look to get out as soon as possible now?
All that said, dropped as a first choice player, stripped of the captaincy, by a manager who clearly has no faith in him... even if just for personal pride, he'd surely look to get out as soon as possible now?
He is a first choice starter for England who wants to play every game in club football and has competition for his international spot if he doesn’t play at all.
He will go to West Ham, they have Europa league to offer and will be a decent team.
It's the right timing with minimal fuss.
Edit: Also him being given captaincy is an indictment of the toxicity and fragility in the dressing room at that point in time rather than just Ole's misjudgement.
Edit: Also him being given captaincy is an indictment of the toxicity and fragility in the dressing room at that point in time rather than just Ole's misjudgement.
Fun fact - it’s ten years to the day since the angry and confused Rooney quote.
That's freaky
Nobody is gonna pay this numpty the ransom we are paying at £190k a week. He's going to leech every last penny of his contract until 2025, we are stuck with him.
Time to read the room, Harry. Thanks for your service.
Angry and confused
Again.. does any other player do this? posting about it publicaly.
Prestige of playing for United (plus being able to say "I'm the Manchester United captain"...until today) + 200k/w salary which no other club will come close to matching. This might change though now that he's no longer that captain.
Different people have different priorities.
It'd be pretty rare, especially while also leaking to journos about how upset he is.
Should've done it last season.
I wondered if there was a real need to do that since we know most of the time our vice captain will take on the captain role during matchday as Maguire is unlikely to play in the first team. This just creates unnecessary attention to our team.
The possible reason for doing that is to force a move out of him.
The possible reason for doing that is to force a move out of him.
Nothing comes close to this fecking transfer, absolute worst transfer in our history.
Exactly this, BF is not captain material.
The mass social media vilification and vilification of Maguire should never have happened. Sadly I doubt the Deli Ali interview will change the Uber turds who comment on every football related video with a Maguire reference.
On the statement, it’s fine that he wants to be vocal and speak up. He hasn’t said anything negative towards anyone in it and maybe cathartic for him personally and for his image. I do hope he leaves this summer -for Our and his sake as well.
The most upvoted comments to Maguire's twitter post are oppos moonlighting as united fans and telling him it was a bad move and he needs to stay...
I would be laughing if it wasn't so sad.
I would be laughing if it wasn't so sad.
Mourinho tried to be ruthless but idiot Woodward was always there to thwart him and protect his financial assets/players (e.g., Pogba and Martial).
Ruthless doesn't mean acting like a twat and taking 0 responsibility.
Sanchez?