This is a very ignorant thing to say. Just because someone is in a "poorer situation" than you are, doesn't mean you can't suffer from depression, an illness. It's about as ridiculous as saying "How could Andy Cole suffer from kidney failure. He should man the feck up, there's always someone in a poorer situation."
Maguire is not as bad as people make out. Everyone was loving him during the World Cup. Yet as soon as he joins United, the anti United crowd suddenly decide he's awful. And then the pro united crowd do as well.
You always get twitter videos posted with the caption "£80 Million hahahahaha" and stuff like that. It was the same with Lukaku. Thing is, you could probably make a clip of any player making a mistake. You could probably find a clip of Robert Lewandowski missing an open goal and caption it something like "Best striker in the world?!?!"
Kidney failure is different. I’m flabbergasted that you actually think that’s a good comparison. Depression? Yes it’s very real, but I truly doubt that Maguire’s suffering from depression. BUT if he is, he should approach the club’s sport psychologists. Or seek external help if the club’s options are lacking. And he should definitely communicate it openly. IF he has communicated it openly to Ole and staff, then the issue stems from shite man management at our club.
Top players make mistakes, sure, they are human after all. But have you seen the spurs match? Have you seen how Maguire wrestles Shaw to the ground? There was no feckin need to, so that’s not a mistake, it’s a less intelligent player making a dumb decision. Such a player shouldn’t be in our team, much less our captain. His performance against spurs was amateur at best. Sure it was a collective shite performance, but shoot me if I’m wrong to expect more from our captain.
I was never for his transfer, especially at the price we bought him for. He’s not worth even half that - but that is on the manager and scouting team, not him. Whoever identified Maguire as our saviour for our defence deserves to be sacked. He does not fit the manager’s system, period. Ole HAS to adjust our system to accommodate him.
Maguire has never been a top defender and he will never be a top defender. He will also never fit a high press system if the system only plays 2 CBs.