I mean Bruno is clearly an inadequate captain but who would you pick instead? Let me play Devil’s advocate here for a second.

I remember at the time there were reports of a disagreement between DDG & Maguire regarding the captaincy which effectively split the dressing room. I wonder if Bruno was the prudent choice that allowed ETH to avoid taking a side in that argument.

Also, Bruno was probably one of very very few players in the team at the time that ETH imagined would be part his future at United. If he were to change captain now, ETH would have to be very careful who he’d chose because there is a clear sense that he has his favorites, as evidenced by the Sancho incident, and avoid falling into the same trap as Ole with Maguire or Mourinho with Pogba in that they picked a captain that was very much the manager’s captain rather than the team’s captain.

I do think in an ideal world captains are made in the team rather than brought in. Its players, and I dont mean one player, that set an example, are most fervent, espouse the manager’s belief on the field, are very sensitive to changes in game state and, ideally, are level headed. It’s extremely rare that one person has all that and I think United’s bigger failing is that there isn’t a clear unified group which fill the gaps in Bruno’s captaincy.