ESPN FC’s Craig Burley can’t understand the decline of Raphaël Varane, with 35-year old Jonny Evans preferred at centre half.

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  1. He is finished he got exposed in 19/20 season when Ramos got injured/suspended and Ramos covered his mistakes and in Copenhagen game United are threatening until Evans injury once Varane came Copenhagen become very strong

  2. Varane is mediocre. He’s glass and he knows it. He never slides to block a tackle bec he knows he’ll break. Ball playing is average. Plus he’s always injured. Can’t be 1st or 2nd choice CB if your always with the medics.

  3. Man Utd wasted all their money on Onana and Mount. They should invested in Central midfield with Douglas Luiz and another Centre back like Inacio. Kept De Gea, and he would have kept many more clean sheets. Now they have a play from the back goalkpeeper who is useless because they keep getting dominated in the midfield.

  4. Varane has always been a complimentary piece to senior CB. He looked his best next to Pepe or Ramos but when they weren't in the line up to organize the defense the back line always looked suspect with him as the leader. His best years were 12/13 to 16/17, he always looked like he was going through the motions after that.

  5. This isn't that hard to understand. Ten Hag has already explained what is going on. These "pundits" are puzzled by something that is already know. Ten Hag said it was for tactical reason. As some have mentioned in these comments, Ten Hag doesn't fancy playing both Varane and Maguire together. Ten Hag had multiply combinations last year of his CB's. Martinez and Varane were the most preferred pairing as they started 17 games together. In the other games Varane started he played with Shaw and Lindelof each for 3 starts. At no time did Ten Hag play Varane with Maguire. Maguire, to his credit is playing decently and as a Manager it's should be understandable to Ten Hag is allowing Maguire to continue because he has earned his place, which is saying a lot considering where he came from. Back from the abyss. Varane will have to wait his turn to get back and it will surely come as Maguire still has a stinker in him at some point. But of course our learned panel of experts are baffled. Nice work boys.

  6. He was never good, he was just a fill-in in a Galáctico team. It's easy to look world class when CR7, Bale and Benzema score you 5 goals a game and win you 5 Champions Leagues.

  7. Nothing is wrong, it's just crazy the agenda haters have against United. Throughout the entire length of football, no one player has been consistent their entire career. Players go through dips in form and others go through streaks of greatness. Atm Varane is having a dip in form, and Maguire and Evans are playing very well for themselves. Ten Hag is a good enough coach to know to play your best preforming players. Fake fans and outsides need to relax, respectfully. 4 out of 5 wins in the prem🤷‍♂️

  8. Varane, big macguire, case-meatloaf, midget martinez, fat shaw, shaky hands onana, grandpa evans, rashfock, ladyboy antony, sister haaland, suckho etc etc… this team really sucks and super unlikeable, Manure is finished!!!

  9. Varane was pretty good back in the day at Madrid. Type of player who starts getting a lot of injuries and just gets washed up near 30. We did good getting rid of him at a great time.

  10. It's hard to understand for Laurens because he doesn't know anything. Varane is average. He hesitates, is positionally poor, and doesn't know how to defend. His best attribute is in the air.

  11. He was finished before he even got to Old Trafford … let's face it, you don't go to Old Trafford from a club like Real Madrid unless you're after an easy life!

  12. Ten Hag had already addressed this matter – he believes the partnership that are currently built is need not be disrupted. When Martinez returns, Ten Hag wants Varane to continue the partnership he had going with Martinez and doesn’t want Varane out with another injury

  13. Buying players like Varane and casemiro, as good as they were, were supposed to be players that lead eventually to younger promising talents.

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