The problem is that Lindelof's downsides are exacerbated by the fact the rest of our defense is pretty weak, it's not like Ferdinand or Vidic or Evra or Neville or Stam or Pallister or Bruce and so on and so on were infallible, it's just that usually they were alongside defenders that were capable of picking up slack for any mistakes made. For example, the ball that went across our box, if its Ferdinand or Vidic in Shaw or Maguire's place, guarantee that ball gets cleared instead of ending up in the back of the net.
It was a mistake to buy Maguire considering we already had Lindelof, Maguire I just don't see it, as bad as Lindelof is he cost less than half the price than Maguire and yet i feel like he offers nothing that Lindelof doesn't, except maybe headers? Either way, Maguire is not going to be dropped considering the money spent, so we do need to replace Lindelof with someone more competent, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen, which means its someone we already have on the books that's going to have to partner Maguire.