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Gary Neville blasts Man Utd fans for ‘BULLYING’ Harry Maguire over controversial decision

Gary Neville blasts Man Utd fans for ‘BULLYING’ Harry Maguire over a controversial decision made by new boss Erik ten Hag this week.

The former footballer turned Sky Sports pundit has taken to Twitter to condemn Manchester United supporters, which some of them furious at ‘Slabhead’ remaining as captain going into the upcoming season.

The centre back was often been criticised by fans and pundits alike for his displays in an underwhelming season for himself and the club last season, going trophyless again.

As reported by Sportsmail last month, the England defender’s future looked to have been in doubt after his form and leadership was called into question by some of his own teammates.

However, in a show of support for the 29-year-old, new Red Devils boss ten Hag revealed on Monday that Maguire will keep the armband, saying in a press conference during United’s pre-season tour of Thailand: ‘I have to get to know all the players, but he’s an established captain and he’s achieved a lot of success.’

When hearing the news that Maguire will be captain once again, Neville tweeted ‘Good!’ sparking a backlash on social media.

Within half an hour of his post, Neville had 400 replies with many furious at what he had to say – leading to the club legend to hit back.

After replying to some supporters on the social media platform, Neville reiterated his stance by tweeting: ‘So the same United fans fuming with me for applauding the decision to keep Maguire as captain seem to be without knowing criticising the new manager for his decision. Maybe support Maguire and stop bullying him on here! The new manager obviously likes him.’

The 47-year-old’s retort came after being called a ‘p****’ and a clown by some users on social media.

After being called a ‘p****’, Neville quote-tweeted a reply: ‘You having a go at me or our new manager that selected him as the captain?’.

In reply to: ‘You’re just an established clown who just advocates for English players even when they’re useless,’ Neville hit back with: ‘Sorry to inform you it’s a Dutch manager that’s selected him as captain not an English clown.’

In a softer stance, one United fan tried to reason that patience had worn out for Maguire among supporters.

‘We did support Maguire countless times, but he doesn’t have the backbone to lead the team,’ they wrote.

This led to Neville saying: ‘ETH thinks he does!’.

Erik ten Hag insists Man Utd are not prepared to let Cristiano Ronaldo leave the club.

Ronaldo has missed the start of pre-season training due to a family issue but it emerged two days before his expected return to United’s Carrington training complex he wanted to leave.

The 37-year-old is unhappy at United’s slow movement in the transfer market and failure to qualify for the Champions League, which triggered a 25% salary reduction in his contract.

Ahead of United’s first pre-season friendly against Liverpool in Bangkok, Ten Hag was asked whether he would let Ronaldo leave and replied: “No, we are planning for Cristiano Ronaldo for the season and that’s it and I’m looking forward to working with him.

“I have read but what I say is Cristiano is not for sale, he is in our plans and we want success together.

“I spoke with him before this issue came up, I had a conversation with him and I had a good talk. That is between Cristiano and me, what I can confirm is we had a really good conversation together.

“What I said before, once again, I had a really good talk together.”

Twitter users reacted as Gary Neville blasts Man Utd fans for ‘BULLYING’ Harry Maguire over the controversial captaincy decision…

@deansmele10: He was atrocious last season, Gary

@olesthewheel1: So was all the players

@AlAhmed72901403: Bullying him he’s not a united captain ffs

@Donny_DS_: We did support Maguire countless times, but he doesn’t have the backbone to lead the team.

@Lucasglory___: Nobody supports a player with 4 relegations apart from Gary Neville.

@Utd_TJJ: @GNev2 Where was this energy for Fred last season or Paul Labile Gary?

@SackThemAllNow: Maguire is rubbish lad been an awful signing

@FutbolFanatic08: It’s not bullying Gary it’s criticizing him from a football standpoint because of his performances recently.

@ab_bohara: Only if maguire stepped up Gary. He never has once shown any leadership skills on the pitch and the unnecessary PR from his team just irks everyone more and more.

@Owenzy90s: It probably means that Ronaldo is off. There was a power struggle for the captaincy under Rangnick. I think Maguire would be a good fit at Salford, but we have to accept ten Hag’s decision.

@JamesBricknell3: Bullying? Grow up. He’s not good enough, we’ve seen it for 3 years

@jayrad198900: Bullying? The only bullying he gets is by every striker in the Prem

@Mike87_United: Yeah you’d never advocate bullying another human being on twitter would you Gary…

@RedReveal: So much heightened emotion put on captaincy. Yes, it’s a big deal, but out there on the pitch, where it all counts, you need leaders across the pitch. No issue from me.

@Mike87_United: If he wasn’t English you wouldn’t give a shit let’s have it right.

@ashtiano: Last season’s disasterclass ought to have consequences Gary – you were there, you saw how bad it was, and how bad he was in particular. This was the chance for a fresh start & a departure from last season’s awful standards.

@Darryl_lal: Think it could of caused more issues if you removed Maguire. Other senior players can stand up and lead without an armband. The thing is if we sign Martinez are saying Maguire is going to start over Varane who’s taking £300k+ a week???

@AJ220598: There shouldn’t be any abuse to anyone for an opinion. My question is just simply why give it to someone who was one of our worst players last season, who showed no example or standards which is what makes a captain. He got it after 6 months at the club and it was wrong decision

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