Erik ten Hag has said Harry Maguire’s status as captain offers no guarantee of a return to the team, especially as the manager has the “immense” Raphaël Varane in his squad.
Maguire was dropped in favour of the Frenchman for Monday’s 2-1 win over Liverpool and Varane impressed in central defence with Lisandro Martínez.
United are at Southampton for Saturday’s early kick-off and Ten Hag was asked whether the captain not playing was awkward. “Yeah but I think that doesn’t mean when you are captain you are established to always play,” he said. “Especially when you also have Varane in your squad.
We have options. Varane: his stature is immense and in pre-season we took a decision to build him physically so he had a bit of a slow start.
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