{"id":295936,"date":"2023-10-30T17:24:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T17:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=295936"},"modified":"2023-10-30T17:24:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T17:24:52","slug":"harry-maguire-would-be-a-much-better-captain-than-bruno-fernandes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/soccer\/harry-maguire-would-be-a-much-better-captain-than-bruno-fernandes\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Maguire would be a much better captain than Bruno Fernandes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Harry Maguire would be a much better captain than Bruno Fernandes and Erik ten Hag made a mistake by handing the armband to the Portuguese star, says Chris Sutton on Mail Sport&#8217;s podcast &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Harry Maguire lost the captaincy in the summer after being dropped last season\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>United were outclassed by City in the Manchester derby and lost 3-0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s podcast It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chris Sutton believes Erik ten Hag should take the armband off Bruno Fernandes and suggested Harry Maguire would be a much better choice to be the Manchester United captain.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman handed the captaincy to Fernandes on a temporary basis after dropping the England international last season, before eventually officially stripping Maguire of the captaincy in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>United were comprehensively outclassed by City at Old Trafford with Fernandes again coming under scrutiny for a perceived lack of leadership in the 3-0 defeat to the Premier League champions.<\/p>\n<p>And Sutton, speaking on the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s <span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!<\/span>\u00a0podcast with Ian Ladyman, insisted the Portuguese was not captain&#8217;s material, a point he first made in August.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You look at the great Manchester United captains of the past. [Roy] Keane, [Bryan] Robson, [Steve] Bruce, [Nemanja] Vidic and [Gary] Neville.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/16\/77177465-12689013-Chris_Sutton_believes_Harry_Maguire_would_make_for_a_better_capt-a-8_1698684793660.jpg\" height=\"374\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/16\/77177471-12689013-Fernandes_replaced_Maguire_as_Manchester_United_s_captain_in_the-m-7_1698684789213.jpg\" height=\"374\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Chris Sutton believes Harry Maguire (L) would make a better captain than Bruno Fernandes (R)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/14\/77177895-0-image-a-81_1698677492210.jpg\" height=\"322\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chris Sutton (right) believes ten Hag should take the armband off Fernandes and suggested Maguire would be a much better choice to be the Manchester United captain<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They&#8217;re captains with a bit of clout, a bit of authority. [They are] somebody you want to follow out of the tunnel where you feel you&#8217;d run through a wall with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I never felt the same about Bruno Fernandes. I think he&#8217;s petulant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s like the talented, spoiled kid down the park when things aren&#8217;t going, who then takes his ball home. That&#8217;s the way he seems to me.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>When he lost the captaincy in the summer, Maguire revealed he was &#8216;extremely disappointed&#8217; after ten Hag outlined the reasons for his decision in a conversation with the defender.<\/p>\n<p>Maguire was expected to leave the club after he was stripped of the armband, but a move to West Ham never materialised.<\/p>\n<p>The former Leicester defender has since returned to the starting XI amid an injury crisis and scored the winner as United beat Copenhagen in the Champions League last week.<\/p>\n<p>Maguire started against Jonny Evans on Sunday and Sutton suggested ten Hag&#8217;s decision to strip him of the captaincy had backfired.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ve defended Ten Hag up until now [but] that was on Ten Hag to change the captaincy and for Bruno to come in,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And there were reasons because Maguire wasn&#8217;t gonna play, but I&#8217;d much rather stand behind Harry Maguire in the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;d rather him leading me out rather than the word Bruno.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/16\/77183163-12689013-image-a-9_1698684925845.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sutton suggested that Erik ten Hag&#8217;s decision to strip Harry Maguire of the captaincy backfired<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/14\/77177477-0-image-a-67_1698676945333.jpg\" height=\"515\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Roy Keane said that Fernandes&#8217;\u00a0body language was the &#8216;opposite to what you want in a captain&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Sky Sports on Sunday, former United captain Roy Keane singled out Fernandes\u00a0saying the Portugal midfielder&#8217;s body language was the &#8216;opposite to what you want in a captain&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;The first thing I would do is take the captaincy off him. I know it&#8217;s a big decision but Fernandes is not captain material.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s a talented player, but what I saw today, he&#8217;s whingeing, he&#8217;s moaning, he&#8217;s throwing his arms up in the air constantly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It really isn&#8217;t acceptable. When you&#8217;re talking about where do they make changes &#8211; board level, managers &#8211; I&#8217;d start with that because the manager is capable of doing that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Fernandes is a brilliant footballer but he&#8217;s the opposite to what you want in a captain.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12689013\/Harry-Maguire-Chris-Sutton-captain-Manchester-United-Bruno-Fernandes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Maguire would be a much better captain than Bruno Fernandes and Erik ten Hag made a mistake by handing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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