Breaking news: Harry Maguire reveals who is he handing the captain hand ban to ,after fans boo him during international duty ,as he mention name of next captain which will be captain against Leicester .

 The Man Utd captain was booed

 while on international duty and while

 he has been widely backed by his 

peers he needs to up his performances

Ralf Rangnick has been pretty 

straight when it comes to answering 

journalists’ questions in press conferences

 during his four months at Manchester United.

But there was one question on Friday 

lunchtime, at the club’s Carrington 

training base, that the German manager

 did not have an explanation for.

He, along with many others, could not 

understand why Harry Maguire was 

booed while playing for England over

 the international break.

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Three Lions' boss Gareth Southgate 

was strong in his condemnation of the 

fans' reaction and Maguire’s international

 team-mates have all come out to 

back the Man Utd captain.

“I can’t get my head around what 

has happened at Wembley tonight,” 

Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson 

wrote on Instagram.

“Harry Maguire has been a colossus

 for England. Without him, the progress

 made at the last two tournaments 

would not have been possible. To 

be booed at his home stadium, for 

no reason? What have we become?

"What happened tonight was just wrong. 

As someone who wants to win with 

England, I feel fortunate to share a 

dressing room with him. We all feel the same!”

The bemusement for most came because

 Maguire’s performances in an England

 shirt cannot really be faulted. He was

 named in the Euro 2020 team of 

the tournament and was a key figure 

in helping Southgate’s side reach 

the final.

He has played for England 14 times

 since October 2020, with 12 wins, 

no defeats, 10 clean sheets and 

has scored six goals. They have only

 conceded five goals in his last 

19 appearances in an England shirt.

It was only nine months ago his 

name was being sung down Wembley 

Way as fans basked in the excitement

 of reaching the Euro final.

Yet here we were back at the same 

venue less than a year later and 

he was being booed.

We don’t know why some of those 

inside Wembley decided to boo him during

 the game against Ivory Coast on 

Tuesday night.

Presumably it is because he has 

been in poor form for United recently

 and the fans felt like he didn’t deserve

 his place in Southgate’s latest squad.

Based on performances this season 

United fans do indeed have reason

 to be aggrieved with the centre-back’s

 displays but not England fans.

The Old Trafford supporters are 

expected to show their support for the

 29-year-old when they host Leicester

 at Old Trafford on Saturday evening.

“I speak regularly with him since I came

 here and he knows my position towards

 him, he's been a very valuable player 

and the captain of the team and the 

club,” Rangnick said on Friday.

“I didn't understand what was going

 on at Wembley but I’m pretty sure 

it won't happen in our stadium with the

 Red Army behind the team and the 

club and the captain.

"He's a very important player and he’s

 been playing well for Manchester 

United and England in the last couple

 of years.”

Club supporters are fiercely loyal 

to their players and Maguire will discover

 that when he leads the team out on 

Saturday afternoon. But their loyalty 

isn’t blind and, while they are expected 

to vocally back the defender, there 

is an acceptance that performances 

do need to improve.

The reverse fixture against Leicester 

was one of Maguire’s worst displays 

of the season. He was rushed back 

into the starting XI after injury and 

he looked slow, rusty and generally 

poor as he was jeered by the home 

supporters at the King Power Stadium.

His inclusion in that line-up also caused

 issues in the United dressing room and

 more questions were raised over 

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s management.

Rangnick does not have the same 

loyalty to Maguire as Solskjaer did. He 

is not afraid to drop him and has left 

him out of the team on three occasions

 since he arrived in December.

Maguire has discovered that he is not 

undroppable despite the captain’s armband

 and the club privately acknowledge that

 there is room for improvement in his

 displays of late.

For all the criticism thrown at the 

£80 million ($105m) man, a lot of which

 has been justified, there is the feeling

 that while his on-field displays can 

be critiqued his actions off it cannot.

Online cynics suggest he has undertaken 

certain tasks as ‘good PR’ after some 

poor performances but his recent 

behaviour is in keeping with what he has

 done since he joined.

He has always retained a keen interest

 

 in helping the younger players at the club 

and asked if he could speak to the under

-18s ahead of their FA Youth Cup semi

-final at Old Trafford before cheering

 them on from the stands last month.

More recently he has met with the 

families of some of the U18s players 

when they signed their first professional

 contract.

His help for Paul Woolston, the 23-year

-old who was forced into early retirement 

due to injury, has also been commended

. Maguire met with him for half an 

hour on the day he found out he had to 

hang up his boots to offer a range 

of opportunities that the goalkeeper 

is going to explore.

That was a classy touch and not something

 to detract away from his own displays

. But no number of nice gestures will

 distract from poor performances on 

the pitch. The only way to silence the 

boo boys and those doubting his ability

 is to up his level on the pitch.