I feel the same
5
Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 32
- Clean sheets
- 7
- Goals
- 4
- Assists
- 1
- Yellow cards
- 9
its not that he's a bad player, hes actually a good defender. But when facing an attacking onslaught he goes deeper, and deeper and deeper. He cannot engage with a player head on and win the ball without potentially fouling them.
Exactly why he's sh*te and the issue. We end up with huge gaps between our CB/CM and this is part of the issue. We can't squeeze teams higher up the park.
Look at how often when Martinez played LCB and he'd try to come forward, teams would knock it in behind him and Maguire doesn't have the pace to cover or he's so deep he's created the space.
It's not rocket science. What other top team plays with a CB as slow and limited as him?
Saw a video with Minteh where he said Maguire was an underrated player. High praise given most of his other answers were Messi.
Everton 2:2 Man Utd
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Does he have an injury that prevents him from jumping?
Imagine still starting Maguire at CB in 2025
I was chatting with my mum when we pulled two back, so can't comment on that period of the game, but my god that was a return to the Maguire-meme days.
Only have ourselves to blame everytime he fecks up which is often
He's here going on to 2026.
He both mentally and phyisically slow, terrible combination for a EPL player
Whoever decided to give him that extra year should be heading out the door.
Honestly he was so so bad
Oof.
Most of this board were happy to keep him. Mental when we know this is what he can turn in.
God I wish we’d shipped him out when we had the chance to, unfortunately we need him because of injuries.
He currently can't even do the basic things that we used to praise him for. Falls on his arse too often now and gets outjumped by average centre forwards numerous times a game.
I sometimes wonder if time just goes more slowly in Maguire's mind. It's as though when he's looking at the ball he loses all sense of what's happening around him.
Hopefully that was the worst of him this season. Lost so many headers. Was more focused on diving and having a go at the ref. Usually he leads by example but today we got bizarro Maguire.
7 years of Maguire
I know it was a lazy decision.
I thought he was awful today. An absolute liability. Thought the entire back 3 + keeper were a mess.
It goes slightly unnoticed, but it's impossible to play a high line with this guy in the center of your defense because he instantly drops 10 yards off his man because of his lack of pace. He was absolutely dreadful today.
“Redemption”
Lack of standards are appalling at the club, the fact so many of you were onboard for a 1 year renewal whereby we pay him £190k a week to serve that garbage. We absolutely deserve everything happening to us
Lack of standards are appalling at the club, the fact so many of you were onboard for a 1 year renewal whereby we pay him £190k a week to serve that garbage. We absolutely deserve everything happening to us
It’s depressing, he clearly has his own way of playing which is a complete mismatch to the rest of the squad.7 years of Maguire
Horrendous pretty much all game again
He has a good game when we are pinned back. But in an open game or when we need to step up, he reverts to type. Plugged a gap this season but hopefully won’t see out his contract.
The pairing of de Ligt and him is really the fecking worst. They are similar players - slow, cumbersome and simply not good enough. One is bad enough, starting the two of them together is a disaster.
He improved for the final 10-15 minutes, but up until then he had a really bad one.
De Ligt was such a poor buy when we already had a similar but better player.
He is like the defender version of Onana. Just makes everybody else nervous and always capable of a horrific error. Was also weird how he kept diving for pens instead of trying to freaking get his slabhead on the ball.
I will be honest don't think he was that bad. Could of done better with both goals. But hardly disastrous.
Second goal In particular, de ligt gets caught ridiculously high up the pitch, Maguire goes from trying to cover the entire left side of our half, to charging backwards into a one one situation in the centre of the box and than trying to head a ball out from under our own bar from a standing position. Literally a one man band, all while Maz overcommitted, de ligt was nowhere, Onana made a decent save than refused to take command and Dalot, ugarte and Casemerio slowly jogged back watching the game rather than playing it.
Granted though is wasn't a particularly good performance either.
Second goal In particular, de ligt gets caught ridiculously high up the pitch, Maguire goes from trying to cover the entire left side of our half, to charging backwards into a one one situation in the centre of the box and than trying to head a ball out from under our own bar from a standing position. Literally a one man band, all while Maz overcommitted, de ligt was nowhere, Onana made a decent save than refused to take command and Dalot, ugarte and Casemerio slowly jogged back watching the game rather than playing it.
Granted though is wasn't a particularly good performance either.
"Improved"? When he had feck all to do and Everton ran out of steam.
Maguire hasn’t developed and is still the slow cumbersome player who is prone to mistakes. He needs upgrading with someone imposing, but fast and agile. I would like Diomande
Maguire is not the “better” player, and it has been quite evident for a couple of seasons. Barring a handful of games this season, Maguire has been bang average to poor like the majority of his United career.
I've always said that hes on 56k dialup with a 500ms ping
Bad game from him today...lucky to escape a yellow for four on Beto, should have helped on 2nd goal. Need to get Yoro more minutes.
Shocking performance. I’m fairly confident that there’s alcohol in his system presently.
We don’t have the money for Diomande I’m afraid. Diao at Midtylland looks a good bet, string, fast and front foot.
MDL is the better player but both are nowhere near good enough. At least there's some hope with MDL. Signing an aging Maguire up for another year is Woodward-era behaviour.
Nah he was poor today. Unfortunately others just as bad.