The crumbling of Casemiro: Maybe it’s time for Manchester United to cut him free

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The Brazilian’s decline is there for all to see - and the evidence was beginning to stack up even before Monday's tragicomedy at Palace

At this stage of ’s professional life, perhaps the kindest way to sum it up is that he is finding out, the hard way, one of the irrefutable facts about elite sport. Wilfrid Diamond, a U.S. sportswriter in the 1950s, put it best: “Age is a mighty important subject for a champion, because it’s the one opponent he can’t lick.” At 32, perhaps Casemiro will resent being told his .

And can anybody make an argument, a year on, that he was wrong? Carragher put it in even stronger terms in his punditry role for Sky Sports after Monday’s loss to Palace: “Casemiro should know himself, as an experienced player, that he should have another three games left at the top level: the next two league games and the Cup final. Then he should be thinking, ‘I need to go to or Saudi.’ “His agent, or the team of people around him, need to tell him, ‘This has to stop’.

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