{"id":299051,"date":"2023-11-28T09:24:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T09:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usasportsradar.com\/?p=299051"},"modified":"2023-11-28T09:24:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T09:24:31","slug":"paul-ince-believes-bruno-fernandes-should-not-be-captain-at-man-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usasportsradar.com\/soccer\/paul-ince-believes-bruno-fernandes-should-not-be-captain-at-man-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ince believes Bruno Fernandes should NOT be captain at Man United"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Paul Ince believes Bruno Fernandes should NOT be captain at Manchester United and claims the Portuguese lacks the leadership required to wear the armband<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Paul Ince believes the Portuguese isn&#8217;t doing enough to improve his teammates\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fernandes has been criticised for his lack of leadership this season\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pressure is easing on Man United boss Erik ten Hag: Listen to It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Paul Ince believes Bruno Fernandes he&#8217;s not playing his best football and should not be Manchester United&#8217;s captain.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese enjoyed one his best performances of the season as United beat Everton 3-0 courtesy of Alexandro Garnacho&#8217;s wonder goal, but Ince remains far from impressed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don\u2019t know what I see in Fernandes as he is not a leader by the way he plays,&#8217; the former Manchester United and Liverpool midfielder told talkSPORT on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I feel at the moment he\u2019s not playing to the best of his ability.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Erik ten Hag\u00a0handed the captaincy to Fernandes<span>\u00a0on a temporary basis after dropping Harry Maguire last season, before making the switch permanent in the summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/08\/78312469-12798863-image-a-13_1701158524783.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Paul Ince believes Bruno Fernandes he&#8217;s not playing his best football and should not be wearing the armband at Manchester United<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/08\/78312691-12798863-image-a-14_1701158570852.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ince said Fernandes was not the right candidate for the role as he did improve his teammates<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><span>But Ince maintained Fernandes was not the right candidate role, suggesting his shortcomings as captain were evident as United endured a dismal start to the season with five defeats in their first 10 Premier League games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As a leader, you do it by organisation,&#8217; he explained.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My main thing as a captain was if I\u2019m not playing well, make sure the people around you are playing well. It shows how bad you\u2019re playing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That\u2019s your purpose as a captain, look around you and get others playing well. I look at Fernandes and it\u2019s all about him and I think if he\u2019s not playing well, then, you can see it in his body language.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes&#8217; perceived lack of leadership and his body language came under intense scrutiny last month after United were trounced 3-0 at home by Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Former United captain Roy Keane singled out Fernandes\u00a0after the defeat, arguing the Portugal midfielder&#8217;s body language was the &#8216;opposite to what you want in a captain&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The first thing I would do is take the captaincy off him. I know it&#8217;s a big decision but Fernandes is not captain material,&#8217; he said on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s a talented player, but what I saw today, he&#8217;s whingeing, he&#8217;s moaning, he&#8217;s throwing his arms up in the air constantly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/08\/78312479-12798863-image-m-16_1701158608602.jpg\" height=\"454\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese&#8217;s attitude has come under scrutiny this season as United have struggled<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/08\/77177477-12798863-Roy_Keane_said_that_Fernandes_body_language_was_the_opposite_to_-a-17_1701158794201.jpg\" height=\"517\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Roy Keane said Fernandes&#8217; body language was the &#8216;opposite to what you want in a captain&#8217; after United were beaten 3-0 at home by Manchester City last month\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It really isn&#8217;t acceptable. When you&#8217;re talking about where do they make changes &#8211; board level, managers &#8211; I&#8217;d start with that because the manager is capable of doing that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Fernandes is a brilliant footballer but he&#8217;s the opposite to what you want in a captain.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Mail Sport&#8217;s <span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!<\/span>\u00a0podcast with Ian Ladyman, Chris Sutton described Fernandes as &#8216;petulant&#8217; and not the right fit to captain United.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You look at the great Manchester United captains of the past. [Roy] Keane, [Bryan] Robson, [Steve] Bruce, [Nemanja] Vidic and [Gary] Neville.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They&#8217;re captains with a bit of clout, a bit of authority. [They are] somebody you want to follow out of the tunnel where you feel you&#8217;d run through a wall with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I never felt the same about Bruno Fernandes. I think he&#8217;s petulant.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the Portugal international showed plenty of leadership on Sunday, when he handed penalty responsibilities over to Marcus Rashford in the win against Everton.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes is United&#8217;s designated penalty-taker, but he felt Rashford needed a confidence-booster after scoring just once this season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/08\/78312845-12798863-image-a-18_1701158872317.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Fernandes\u00a0handed penalty responsibilities over to Marcus Rashford in the win against Everton<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;[I did it] because I felt Marcus [Rashford] needed a little bit of confidence, he needed his goal,&#8217; he told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Marcus is an excellent penalty taker too, I am 100 percent sure he could score that penalty. It is not about who takes it, it is about scoring and Marcus did it perfectly.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The win at Goodison moved United back up to sixth place, four points behind fourth-placed Aston Villa and six off league leaders Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag&#8217;s men face Galatasaray in Istanbul on Wednesday in a crucial Champions League tie they must win to keep their hopes of qualifications alive and then travel to Newcastle on Saturday evening.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12798863\/Paul-Ince-Bruno-Fernandes-Captain-Manchester-United.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Ince believes Bruno Fernandes should NOT be captain at Manchester United and claims the Portuguese lacks the leadership required [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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