Your opinion on Maguire in general is based on this season only really. He's played against plenty of premier league attackers as a mainstay of our defence for the previous 2 seasons in which we had the 4th and 3rd fewest goals against in the league
Sure, I suppose we'll ignore the amount of cock ups he had last season, largely a part of why we kept falling behind in several games, and the absolute disaster strike he has been this season.
The fact is it seems nobody wants to admit that Maguire was a below average defender at Leicester, an occasionally stable defender here, and I have no idea why.
Could be the usual English bias. Especially considering most people were mocking our interest in Dias because apparently he was "too bad and just mid table" but Maguire was one of the apparent "top 4 defenders in the league". No, he really fecking wasn't.
He's been an awful captain by the standards of Manchester United and an awful player for us, who gets praised because he does the bare minimum, at a club who is supposed to demand the very best.
I have never seen a defender at this club be responsible for as many goal conceding mistakes as he has been game after game after game and yet still remain in the side and somehow people still defend him.
That moment when he pulled down Shaw against Spurs last season will forever haunt me.
The club needs to accept he's been a flop and move on.
My opinion was based on the fact that I didn't think he was good when he was at Leicester, and I was baffled when he was signed by us, and I have not seen anything to state he offers enough for a team that wants to win the league and CL.