Can't believe the stick this guy gets here after every goal we concede. I get that some people have agenda's against players like Pogba and the pre 2020 version of Martial, but Maguire?
Granted he is not perfect and yes obviously we overpaid for him but how is that his fault?
The guy played 49 times for us this season. He is the most reliable CB we have had for the last decade by a country mile. The guy is a born leader, fantastic in the air, great tackler and scored some very important goals for us yet from reading the cafe you get the feeling he is a slightly better version of Phil Jones. Delighted we've got him, easily top 5 CB's in the league.
Wholeheartedly disagree, he isn’t top anything. Rating players in a list is silly, but he is no better than most of the starting defenders for the top 15 clubs. Throw Tyrone Mings in for Maguire and it’s not going to change much - Villa would still relegate and United would still be 5th. Terrible header of the ball at the other end, has the chance to score ten goals this season but makes every attempt look like a clearance. Lacks concentration, slow on the turns, lacks pace.. doesn’t hold the backline together at all. Born leader? Because he’s tall and English? I don‘t see any leadership ability with him at all, does he speak at all?
He is fit every game and battles hard on defensive set-pieces, but so did Chris Smalling. And I’ll tell you what... Maguire isn’t anywhere near a top level Phil Jones, which of course isn’t a player we have anymore... but needs to be mentioned regardless. Maguire is mediocre Premier League-defender, on par with players like Evans, Dunk, Mings, Tarkowski, Matip, Sakho, Christensen, Süyüncü and the likes. All either great headers or tackles, but severely lacking compared to the great defenders in the world. Also worth mentioning that the league itself has very few consistently great defenders. We’re not gonna win the league with Maguire as our «best» defender, forget about it.