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The solution to "who should partner Maguire"
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We should sell maguire to the dippers and cut our losses. They'll pay top dollar for a CB.
You are most certainly right if you want to defend like a team at the bottom of table, sittning low and heading balls away. But if you want to to defend with a higher line you need defenders who can turn and run, that´s not Maguire. The way I see it Ole wants a higher defence line and that is why I think Lindelöf and Bailly is our best centre half pair. Some times you need to kill your darlings to make progress.
I don't know why all looking to blame the defenders. We are not conceding goals in the big games. Striker/winger is what we most need.
How many goals have we conceded because Maguires lost a race? Far less than he's prevented by being excellent in the air.
Stones and Dias aren't exactly Usain Bolt either and look at them. There's an obsession with pace for centre backs on here, it's replaced 'we need ball playing centre back' that we heard for years.
You're another Goldbridge muppet aren't you? This "we defend too deep" crap is just that. Crap. We are constantly holding a high line but drop off as our opponent gets possession in our end. This doesn't change whether it's Lindelof and Maguire, Bailly and Maguire or Bailly and Lindelof. Goldbridge has an agenda and looks for excuses. Just like how he always moans about "2 defensive midfielders protecting our back 4". We just got a clean sheet against Chelsea and we were NOT sitting deep. We were well at them with our FB's constantly overlapping and McFred in and around their 18. It's all agenda. I'd like to see a different partner for Maguire, but if I had a nickel for every time Maguire's pace cost us a goal, I'd have about 15 cents. His lack of pace is quite possibly the most over exaggerated problem that we have ever had.
I think you’re all in for a shock, Ole appears to love his Scandy CB. You’re all in denial.
Yup, it gets stated on here as though we have a mid 30’s Laurent Blanc at the back.
Lets put a player who can't pass well, often out of position, loves a tackle, loves a last ditch tackle, at he heart of our defence. Yes, lovely plan.
I second this yup.
I think AWB would look much better with a proper right winger in front of him. The problem is his deficiencies in attack are clearer when he’s essentially the only one playing on the entire wing.
That means the priority, as it has been for the last 5 years, and will remain for the next 5 years, is to buy a right winger.
Completely agree. We needed a ball playing centre back for years. Maguire is good on the ball. He can take it forward, he can pick a pass. Whether you want him to do that stuff is a different matter (I'm personally happy with him taking the ball up the pitch).
Now, apparently none of that stuff matters because we now only need defenders with pace.
To me, Lindelof and Maguire are both good defenders, they just don't necessarily work well together. So you need the pacey one to complement Maguire. I'd keep Maguire and find a partner for him because I consider him a bit better than Lindelof. I think positionally he is a bit better, little bit less error prone, always fit (although Victor isn't injured much to be fair).
Putting AWB there is madness though. For one, its the classic caf error of wondering if we can slot a player in another position for no real reason. Two, on the flank he loses his runner fairly often. It is fine because he uses his pace to get back to them, then usually slide tackles or forces them to make an error. If he does that at CB, its probably too late because they are already through on goal.
That's one way to look at it, the more impactful reason to want a quicker center back is to play a higher line and shrink the pitch.
No one, we should sell him. And buy a new partner for Bailey/Lindelof
I know it wont happen.
I know it wont happen.
I agree.
This is the worst suggestion for changing a players position that we've seen on this site.
KG???
You don't improve your team by selling your best players and Maguire is in fact our best central defender. This isn't my opinion. It's a fact...
I agree with him!I know many have their opinions set on Maguire but surely he’s been the better of our defenders this season.
You would sell him and rely on Lindelof and Bailly in his place? I think that‘s mental, Bailly is injured every 30 seconds and Lindelof is awful 50% of the time.