Maguire made a relegation battling Adams seem like peak Lukaku by giving up possession and strangely taking a BLM knee while Adams scored. I mean WTF was that?
Not biting at your Liverpool comments, since they're a bit premature after 2 games... And no one here denies that VVD is world class, he would comfortably be the best CB at United since Vidic.
Maguire on the other hand, is really worrying me. Not because of those 2 weekends but in general. Thought he looked average to awful for most of last season and the Caf seemed to agree that we overpaid heavily for him.
While Lindelöf had worse slips overall, he at least contributed somewhat offensively, Maguire hardly ever made forward passes and his slowmotion turn-arounds kept putting us under pressure. They both had their good stretches, but it certainly was not a season to write home about defensively...
Somehow, probably because of his solid EC campaign, Maguire convinced the fanbase that he was a WC centre back.
It seems like some kind of wishful thinking that suddenly, the fans looked at our CB duo as poor (Lindelöf) and top class (Maguire) instead of two solid but error-prone Dmen.
In that case, a WC defender like Varane, would solve our problems instantly, because the poor one can be replaced. In reality, if he wasn't our captain and transfer record CB, it could become an open battle for that 2nd spot.
I'll give it some more time, but 2 games in to the new season, I've already seen 3 sequences of him that really made me question his defensive awareness.
