Jamie Carragher has dug out Manchester United goalkeeper Andre Onana for his conduct in the direction of Harry Maguire and claims he would have instructed him 'the place to go' if he was his team-mate. The United stopper got here below fireplace for unleashing a verbal tirade in the direction of Maguire in a pre-season match in July, and the Liverpool icon has accused the Cameroonian of contributing in the direction of Maguire feeling 'damaged'.

The 30-year-old confronted scrutiny once more throughout the worldwide break after coming off the bench and scoring an personal purpose within the 3-1 pleasant win over Scotland. Three Lions boss Gareth Southgate jumped to Maguire's defence and steered he's unfairly handled by former footballers and pundits, however it appears Carragher is on his facet.

The Sky Sports pundit known as out United followers for jeering their very own membership captain over a chronic time period, earlier than he singled out the incident in a pleasant towards Borussia Dortmund when Onana screamed at his team-mate for permitting Dortmund an opportunity on purpose. And he thinks the goalkeeper is culpable for undermining Maguire, who was changed as United captain by Erik ten Hag.

"Manchester United fans jeered Maguire during pre-season games in 2022 and 2023. One of the most distasteful incidents of all occurred during the friendly with Borussia Dortmund in July, when new signing Andre Onana started yelling at Maguire, in my view disgracefully playing to the gallery to endear himself to United fans," he wrote within the Daily Telegraph.

"I watched that in disbelief, but it said everything about what has gone wrong. Maguire was still the club captain then. He should have reacted furiously, put Onana in his box and demanded respect. Instead, he has the persona of someone whose confidence and authority is utterly broken.

"It was the same story when Cristiano Ronaldo returned and stories emerged about energy struggles within the United dressing room. That is when the undermining of Maguire gained momentum."

Carragher then doubled down on his comments when responding to an article in The Guardian, which had taken the side of defending Onana's actions, tweeting: "I’m effectively conscious of Onana being demonstrative in any respect his golf equipment, and I like the very fact he communicates.

"But to carry on like that in a pre-season game when you’ve been at the club 2mins, to the club captain, was way over the top. Any player worth their salt (Keane, Vidic, Rio, Stam… and me!) would have told him where to go & to get back in his goal.

"I felt he was making an attempt far too exhausting to point out the followers what he was about. The level was Maguire is that damaged he didn’t say something again. When he was effectively inside his rights to take action."

Maguire appears set to be ignored once more by Ten Hag when returning to membership motion as United put together to face Brighton. Lisandro Martinez and Victor Lindelof are prone to begin in entrance of Onana, who will retain his place between the sticks.