I am certainly on the side of the court not wanting Zlatan near the captains role. I'm not going from the past either, he's scored some goals, which as a forward he's meant to do for us. However, like the rest of the team, he hasn't done much else to impress me. We saw when things were "good" against Bournemouth and Southampton the flicks and tricks came out and came off, but since the Hull game he's laboured through games, his touch has let him down and he's guilty of slowing our play down when we break.
As I said yesterday I could find a case to drop all of them for poor performances, mistakes etc, but we know it isn't going to happen, nor should it. If we are to drop Rooney the next two in line for the captaincy are Carrick and Smalling, as I've heard nothing to suggest they've been replaced as vice captains.
Carrick isn't going to be playing, I think he's been kept on for his experience and as a squad player, all be it closer to playing that Schwiny. He's an OK captain, but he's not the vocal, motivator that most people seem to want. Smalling, anything I say will be misconstrued as I'm not his biggest fan. However, he seems to be more from the Rooney school of captaincy than the Keane school, and at least with Rooney he'll go say something to the ref, Smalling just walks away and doesn't do much.
For the long term two players who could be captain material are Bailly as has already been said, and I think given a year or two Shaw could develop into captain material, I think he needs a settled run in the side to build his confidence up to speak out.