Read it and thought exactly the same. Complete puff piece - a very rose tinted view. Even the sky sports clip of audio commentary of the Sevilla game tried its best to avoid blaming him.
That's what English media does with (white) England players. See Kane, never anything negative, always defending him.
What about that celebration for England, not taking responsibility in interviews, the media leaks, getting into a fight abroad as United Captain regardless of the situation, multiple poor performances and clearly bottling it on the pitch on occasions etc etc.I’ve never warmed to him, but the dignified way he’s handled himself in recent times has rather impressed me. And yes it’s weird that people find grounds to further criticise him for stuff like this
The statement followed by this on sky sports.I’ve never warmed to him, but the dignified way he’s handled himself in recent times has rather impressed me. And yes it’s weird that people find grounds to further criticise him for stuff like this
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Nobody wants him.
If this is true I'm really disapointed with him.
Yeah he isn’t the most self aware. He’s from Yorkshire
Examples? His interviews are very dull but I don’t recall ones where he’s said anything amiss.
What media leaks? I’d hardly call his latest tweet a leak.
Ages ago. I was commenting on his recent behaviour.
Yeah he’s not good enough and has been getting worse. Where have I defended his performances on the pitch?
Oh he has and he deserves plenty of criticism. It’s weird that people feel the need to find fault with stuff that there’s really nothing wrong with.
He hasn’t been treated badly by the club. Not at all.
He can't go if no one wants him.
Re interviews: It's not that he has been saying controversial stuff, more that he pretty much never showed up for interviews after losses, leaving it to Bruno and especially DdG to handle it.Yeah he isn’t the most self aware. He’s from Yorkshire
Examples? His interviews are very dull but I don’t recall ones where he’s said anything amiss.
What media leaks? I’d hardly call his latest tweet a leak.
Ages ago. I was commenting on his recent behaviour.
Yeah he’s not good enough and has been getting worse. Where have I defended his performances on the pitch?
Oh he has and he deserves plenty of criticism. It’s weird that people feel the need to find fault with stuff that there’s really nothing wrong with.
Very True !!
its the ridiculous wages this guy was on that rubbed me the wrong way. That and hardly any real contributions on the pitch. Then goes and talks shite about the club after he left.
until he played a game where he didnt mess up, and was safe to come forward
Shaw has done plenty as well. Some of them have been pretty weird!
Fair enough about YorkshireYeah he isn’t the most self aware. He’s from Yorkshire
Examples? His interviews are very dull but I don’t recall ones where he’s said anything amiss.
What media leaks? I’d hardly call his latest tweet a leak.
Ages ago. I was commenting on his recent behaviour.
Yeah he’s not good enough and has been getting worse. Where have I defended his performances on the pitch?
Oh he has and he deserves plenty of criticism. It’s weird that people feel the need to find fault with stuff that there’s really nothing wrong with.
I think the great thing about ETH is that he’ll probably answer it once and make clear “that’s the end” and then the next journalist that inevitably tries to test him will get made to look silly. And that’ll be that.
If he stays on, there is a good chance that ETH starts playing kids ahead of him.
We pay players we buy too much. Sancho and Maguire are good examples where we could surely have paid them much less given their prior wages. As it is, we now have Maguire on a wage that most clubs can’t afford and he, understandably, has no desire to take a massive pay cut.
Goes as far back as Shearer booting a player in the head and getting away with it, sure there's examples further back as well.
Maguire is one of, if not the most derided and criticised player in the PL. His reputation has been pummelled in the last couple of years.
Agreed Sanchez was way worse especially considering how much damage his signing did to the wage structure, has always struck me as a cnut as well.
TenHag can shut that down quickly
The way Shaw has improved under ETG I’d be tempted to make Him captain, however I like the fact that he plays with no pressure and will like to keep it that way which only leaves Bruno, maybe give Shaw the armband when Bruno is unavailable/rested.
yup
Well, Sky are reporting it as well, and we know Maguire (or his reps) use them for PR (Keane hinted at that some time ago) ...You're telling me you don't just uncritically believe everything that some rando from The Sun says??
It's this. They can't fit it in the frame.
Hell, even the website supposedly in on the scheme to paint him in a good light has this article which is full of praise for the decision to remove him as captain:
Well he plays every game and he speaks good English.
