EPL: Rangnick suggests Maguire may not be at Man United next season, reveals who’ll pick new captain

 

Outgoing Manchester United interim head coach, Ralf Rangnick has suggested that the Manchester United captain, Maguire, may not even be at the club next season.

He said that the question of who captains the team does not make sense for now since it is not even clear the players that will be at Old Trafford next season.

The German said that the squad would be allowed to pick the player that will captain them.

Just five months after the England defender left Leicester City for Manchester United, former boss, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer named Maguire captain of the team.

But Maguire has faced a lot of criticism for his performances lately and could now miss the rest of the campaign due to a knee injury.

Manchester United hierarchy announced last Thursday that Erik ten Hag will be replacing Rangnick as manager this summer.

And Rangnick said United’s dressing room should decide their own leader, but maintained that no one is sure about the players who would leave and those that would remain at the club under Erik.

Ahead of Manchester United’s Premier League clash with Chelsea on Thursday, the German was asked during his pre-match press conference if Maguire should remain captain under Ten Hag, he replied: “Again, I understand your question, but again I think it doesn’t make sense because you don’t know which kind of players will be here, what the group will look like.

“I can only tell what I have done in the past when I was the head coach or the manager, because in Germany it’s called ‘match kapitan’, so the captain of the team.

“I strongly believe that the captain should be elected by the team because he’s called the team manager, and we always did that.

“We always had a board of four or five players, we called it the ‘spielkapitan’, elected by the players, the player with the highest amount of votes was the team captain at the end.

“That’s how I did it, I know that not a lot of head coaches do it that way.”

When it was pointed out to him that Pep Guardiola adopts a similar approach at Manchester City, Rangnick added: “Yeah, so that’s what I would do if I was still the manager next season, but I’m not, so that is something for Erik to decide.”