The six things Manchester United need to fix this summer

Pick a new captain

In hindsight, Ralf Rangnick might have kept Harry Maguire on for the remainder of the defeat to Atletico Madrid. Maguire is an occasional threat at set-pieces and Rangnick ought to have known his withdrawal, and the relinquishing of the captain's armband, would provide some cheer to sections of a crowd that mock-celebrated Marcus Rashford's substitution earlier this season.

Maguire might already be at St George's Park, back in his happy place of the England camp. Players can dismiss social media noise but when it is amplified by matchgoers then sometimes there is no coming back. Maguire is not viewed as a credible captain by many United supporters or by some of his teammates and the 18-day gap between matches is not going to prevent the topic from arising at Rangnick's next press conference in two weeks.

Bruno Fernandes, a regular starter who will have spent two-and-a-half years in the United pressure cooker come the start of next season, has captained the club a number of times and would be a logical long-term inheritor of the armband.

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Goodnight, and good luck

Uruguay announced last night Edinson Cavani is in their squad for this month's World Cup qualifiers against Peru and Chile, so it is safe to assume Cavani is out of United's next match with Leicester on April 2. Cavani has not been involved in any of the post-internationals fixtures this season.

The 35-year-old is one of five players whose contracts are scheduled to be shredded on July 1. Paul Pogba, Jesse Lingard, Juan Mata and Lee Grant are the others. It would be senseless to make an 11th-hour offer to keep any of them.

Sell, sell, sell

There is a saying that a bad decision is better