Rojo says Solskjaer told him he HAD to play Maguire after X-rated rant about Man Utd star who was ‘making huge mistakes’

FORMER Manchester United defender Marcos Rojo has launched a scathing attack at old team-mate Harry Maguire.

The Argentine, 33, spent seven years at Old Trafford between 2014 and 2021.

But he made just one Premier League start in the 2019/20 campaign under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

This was because Maguire had arrived at the club for £80million – making him the most expensive defender of all-time.

And he was thrust straight into the starting line-up at the expense of Rojo.

Nearly four years on and club captain Maguire, 30, has now been ousted from the team since Erik ten Hag’s arrival – with Lisandro Martinez coming in to partner Raphael Varane.

And Rojo has claimed in an explosive interview that Solskjaer told him he had to select Maguire due to his hefty price tag – despite him making “mistakes every week”.

Speaking to TyC Sports, he said: “In 2019 I was playing in the Europa League, but I was really angry with the Manchester coach [Solskjaer] because he was putting Maguire [in the team] instead of me, who thank god finally they took him out from the starting line-up for Licha [Lisandro] Martinez.

“One day I went to Solskjaer’s office to tell him to let me leave for the other club or put [me] in the starting line-up, but he told me that Maguire had to play yes or yes because of the money they paid for him.

“He [Maguire] was making huge mistakes already and I told Solskjaer: ‘Son of a b***h let me play because this guy is making huge mistakes every week’.”

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Rojo ended up leaving Man Utd two years ago having won the FA Cup, Carabao Cup and Europa League.

He departed for Argentine giants Boca Juniors – where he is still playing now.

And he was recently handed a bizarre suspension after being sent off for a horror challenge against rivals River Plate.

Along with a one-match ban, the Argentine FA prohibited him from wearing the captain’s armband for a month.

After his dismissal, he said: “It doesn’t bother me. The classics are like that, gets a little too much.

“I made three fouls in the whole game, we didn’t make as many fouls, we made some tactical fouls, it’s not that we had an aggressive game or strange things.

“They played this way and everything was fine, they celebrated, and now that we did it a bit, it bothers us.

“We are calm with the things we did, how we faced the game and how we won it.”

Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk