Manchester United interim supervisor Ralf Rangnick has dismissed ‘nonsense’ claims that he’s spoken with Harry Maguire about relinquishing the captain’s armband.
A report within the Mirror on Thursday night time claimed Maguire had spoken to Rangnick about giving up the function, and that Cristiano Ronaldo was in line to take the armband.
Ronaldo is an icon for United’s youthful gamers and the report claims Maguire has felt marginalised by how a lot some gamers search for at to the Portuguese legend.
However, after Maguire hit out on the claims this morning by describing them as false and Rangnick has gone one step additional by saying the rumours are ‘nonsense’.
‘Nicely to start out with, I have to say that that is completely nonsense,’ stated Rangnick.
‘I've by no means spoken with any participant a couple of attainable change of captaincy, Harry is absolutely conscious of that and so is Cristiano and all the opposite gamers.
‘This has by no means been a problem for me, it’s me who decides who’s the captain and subsequently there’s no want for me to talk about that with some other individual.
‘Harry is our captain and he'll keep our captain till the tip of the season and there may be nothing else to say so as to add on to that.’
As ever, it’s been one other week within the headlines for United after Marcus Rashford was pressured to come back out to disclaim claims that there are divides within the dressing room.
However Rangnick insists ‘false’ tales don't hassle him and he says gamers ought to block out the ‘noise’.
‘I’m not pissed off in any respect as a result of I do know that it’s not the reality.I advised you already about Harry being the captain, it’s not a problem in any respect and it’s by no means been a problem for us and for myself because the supervisor,’ stated Rangnick.
‘All the opposite issues, to be sincere, I don’t hearken to that noise that a lot as a result of my full focus is on getting ready the staff for the following coaching and the following sport.However clearly I've heard about what was written.
‘I can solely inform you from my private expertise within the final 11, 12 weeks, sure, there have been gamers sad till the closure of the window as a result of, as I at all times stated, the squad was too massive and we had too many gamers who simply realised they might not get sport time.
‘I believe this has improved for certain, from what I can inform you the environment within the locker room is unquestionably higher than it was once a few weeks in the past for the explanations we simply spoke about.’
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