{"id":36168,"date":"2023-07-17T07:16:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T07:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=36168"},"modified":"2023-07-17T07:16:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T07:16:31","slug":"harry-maguire-stripped-of-manchester-united-captaincy-by-erik-ten-hag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/07\/17\/harry-maguire-stripped-of-manchester-united-captaincy-by-erik-ten-hag\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Maguire stripped of Manchester United captaincy by Erik ten Hag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Harry Maguire has revealed that he has been stripped of the\u00a0Manchester United\u00a0captaincy by Erik ten Hag. The England defender retained the armband last season despite losing his first-choice status and the move comes with United willing to listen to offers for the 30-year-old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

West Ham are interested in Maguire but their proposal of a loan, potentially with an option to buy, is unlikely to appeal to United at this stage and wages make the deal difficult. Maguire received a considerable salary increase, in line with the rest of the squad, as a result of United qualifying for the Champions League and that means it is\u00a0more challenging\u00a0to find a new club. It is understood Maguire has given mixed messages to West Ham regarding a readiness to join but he will need regular games to stand a chance of retaining his England place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAfter discussions with the manager today he has informed me he is changing captain,\u201d\u00a0Maguire tweeted. \u201cHe outlined his reasons to me and whilst I\u2019m personally extremely disappointed, I will continue to give my all every time I wear the shirt. So I wanted to say a massive thank you to the Manchester United fans for all their brilliant support whilst I\u2019ve been wearing the armband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the day I took on the role, three and half years ago, it\u2019s been a huge privilege to lead Manchester United and one of the proudest moments of my career to date. It\u2019s one of the greatest honours in club football. I\u2019ve done everything I possibly could to help United be successful \u2013 on and off the field. I will always be grateful to Ole Gunnar Solskj\u00e6r for first giving me the responsibility and I wish whoever now takes it on every success and they will have my full support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A statement on the club\u2019s website read: \u201cEveryone at Manchester United thanks Harry for his contribution as captain over the past three-and-a-half years. The manager will announce the new captain in due course, after he has informed the players.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ten Hag hopes to sell Maguire and other fringe players to increase the money available for signings.\u00a0Mason Mount has joined\u00a0from Chelsea for an initial \u00a355m, which amounts to almost half his \u00a3120m budget. United are poised to complete an\u00a0initial \u20ac50m (\u00a342.9m) move\u00a0for the Internazionale goalkeeper Andr\u00e9 Onana, who is due to travel to Manchester once a final check on payment terms has been completed. Ten Hag has spoken to Onana over the past couple of days to confirm the deal will go ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The manager also wants a striker and is interested in Atalanta\u2019s Rasmus H\u00f8jlund. If Maguire leaves Ten Hag may also try to sign another centre-half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maguire,\u00a0bought by United\u00a0from Leicester for \u00a380m in August 2019, started only eight Premier League games last season, including on the final day after qualification for the Champions League had been secured. Bruno Fernandes was the regular captain and is expected to be confirmed as Maguire\u2019s successor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harry Maguire has revealed that he has been stripped of the\u00a0Manchester United\u00a0captaincy by Erik ten Hag. The England defender retained the armband last season despite losing his first-choice status and the move comes with United willing to listen to offers for the 30-year-old. West Ham are interested in Maguire but their proposal of a loan, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":36169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[9306,7452,5249,1911,8924,169,1258,5557,9026,7470,5247,7090,803,2416,69,491,12773,3874,301,7225,5460,12791,11252,115,5612,10691,11973,13256,267,5261,9030,6988,6584,10333,6218,3954,594],"class_list":["post-36168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-appeal","tag-bruno-fernandes","tag-budget","tag-champions-league","tag-chance","tag-chelsea","tag-england","tag-erik-ten-hag","tag-fans","tag-fernandes","tag-football","tag-games","tag-goalkeeper","tag-h","tag-harry","tag-harry-maguire","tag-increase","tag-lead","tag-leicester","tag-loan","tag-maguire","tag-manager","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-united","tag-money","tag-onana","tag-one","tag-players","tag-premier-league","tag-salary","tag-success","tag-successor","tag-travel","tag-wages","tag-west-ham","tag-will","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36170,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36168\/revisions\/36170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}