Former Manchester United defender, Rio Ferdinand, has expressed a difference in opinion from Roy Keane regarding his comment on Bruno Fernandes.
Keane had voiced his criticism of Fernandes, recommending that Man United manager Erik ten Hag should remove the captain’s armband from him after the team’s recent 3-0 loss to Manchester City in the Premier League.
However, Ferdinand has now opposed Keane’s suggestion, asserting that it would be ‘unwise’ to strip Fernandes of the club’s captaincy, emphasizing that it would not be the appropriate decision to make.
Speaking on the FIVE podcast, Ferdinand said: “Who else is there? If there was somebody jumping off the page that you go, “Okay yeah he should actually go and get it,” I would say, “Okay you can consider that,’ but throwing out comments like that.
“Saying that is crazy. One of Erik Ten Hag’s biggest problems has been the amount of sagas there’s been outside of the pitch.
“We have had the [Mason] Greenwood situation, you have had [Jadon] Sancho, you’ve had Antony, now you want to create another one by taking the captaincy? Look at how that affected the team when Maguire went out of the team and he took the armband off him.
“These are big decisions. The armband at a football club is a massive decision that makes news for all the wrong reasons and you want to bring another saga to the table? I don’t think it is the right call at all.”
