A dozen members of Michael Carrick’s roster will be duking it out at the World Cup this summer but much of the spotlight was initially stolen by the Manchester United players not jetting across the Atlantic.
Harry Maguire—and the rest of his relatives—made his feelings about a snub from Thomas Tuchel abundantly apparent on social media. Neither of United’s top scorers in the freshly concluded 2025–26 campaign, Bryan Mbeumo and Benjamin Šeško, will be taking part in the tournament either—although that is a consequence of international failings rather than any individual omission.