Proving the doubters wrong and as a fan since watching him for Hull City, I fecking love it. The grief he gets off some of our fans is ridiculous, we’re a damn sight worse off without him. Also, he’s a fundamentally likeable bloke with his heart in the right place.
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We conceded in numerous games prior to his injury [momentum having stalled] & he played 90 minutes in shambolic defensive performances against Liepzig & Tottenham. He also wasn’t some mammoth when we lost meagrely at Leicester in a cup Quarter Final. Our defensive unit was far from impenetrable with him in it last season.
That being said, you’re damn right he’s a solid player for us & prior to the hatchet tackle has been as reliable to play as any other player in Europe but for a forum that belittles world cup winners this place doesn’t half like to re-write history for some.
I happen to think he’s more than ‘solid’ for us but heading into his 3rd season ‘our captain’ needs to deliver in United games that matter as much as any player.
Him & Varane bout to be the greatest defensive unit in the history of football don’t @ me
Uh, no.
We need to sign John Stones
Maguire is a good player but good God, saying he as good as Vidic is bit of a stretch.
Tonight is your day English United fans. Enjoy the moment. Maguire had a great game.
Tonight is your day English United fans. Enjoy the moment. Maguire had a great game.
What a great performance, proving to everyone why he was worth 85 mil!
Debatable really. You put Vidic in the modern game with fast pressing, you never know.
Maguire is miles better handling the ball than Vidic, that's for sure. Defensively we know who is better, but as I were saying, different times.
Ooh Robin van Maguire
There are multiple examples of Maguire not coping with ‘the modern game with fast pressing’, see Liepzig away or Instanbul when the defence allowed a route one ball to beat it.
Vidic was spun by Torres a few times amongst other poor performances but one won things as captain where as the others United career is still to be written.
It’s not debatable. Maguire has some way to go to match Vidic unless running the ball into midfield & passing it sideways counts as much as title wins nowadays.
This sites disrespect for club legends never ceases to amaze me, both centre backs with one clearly the superior defender but the other is better at ‘handling’ the ball so let’s forget about the defence.
Most teams don’t even press. This is a common “modern day football” misconception. The greatest pressing team of all time were Barcelona 2009-2011. Vidic played against them.
Glad Maguires getting recognition but let’s settle down a bit.
The greatest centre back to ever play the game.
MUFC fans like to say we’re not racist but there’s really something about English MUFC players being good that makes their legs weak and brains numb
Thats not what racism is dude. Obviously the best team in England should aim to have the best English players and the more good local players you have the better it reflects on your club. Its the same with every country.
Take a day off, little man.
Pretty sure it's the price tag.
Huh? Not sure what you’ve been watching for the last couple years but he is extremely vocal on the pitch. McGuire is damn good...it takes international tourneys like this to remind ourselves that there just aren’t that many great cbs out there.
My Captain, Always calm, Always finds the right option for a pass, Always there to relief his teammates off opposition pressure,
My Captain, not the quickest but makes up for that with his intelligent position awearness
My Captain, is an £80m Defender who is playing with the personality of one.
That's my Captain and i wouldn't trade him for no other. Love Love Love!!!
My Captain, not the quickest but makes up for that with his intelligent position awearness
My Captain, is an £80m Defender who is playing with the personality of one.
That's my Captain and i wouldn't trade him for no other. Love Love Love!!!
Biggest difference for England is how calm he is. When he doesn't get out of position taking panicky false steps he can mitigate his lack of agility to the point where he can be dominant. No disrespect to Lindelof but this tournament has shown what can happen if he has a quality center back partner that's quicker.
He's the same. Just more people are realising that's not a bad thing.
Exactly.
You don't even see people criticising him for slow passes now that England are winning.
You sure you understand what racism is, mate?
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He’s actually pretty darn good 
now get varane next to him
now get varane next to himSo you are going to just count the games which we lost or conceded some. Well I have news for you that even with the best commanding CBs in the past we have let in several goals.
The initial post I responded to painted him as infallible which he certainly hasn’t been for us. Apparently we ‘completely crumbled without him’, where as our form was on a downward trajectory for weeks prior.
I have news for you, context matters.
No one said he hasn’t had good game whereas after a Quarter Final win for England people in here are calling him as good as Vidic & acting as if he played no part in some of our worst defensive displays last season.
‘Our captain’ indeed.
Hang on, what the feck is this?
In April we won 6, draw 1, lost none. Then May started and we lost away to Roma, a nothing match which we'd already wrapped up in Manchester with a 6-2 twatting. We then won the following PL game versus Villa in which Maguire got injured.
We then went from 7 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss (in a nothing game), conceding 8 goals in 9 games to...
2 losses, 2 draws (including EL final) and 1 win, conceding 9 goals in 5 games.
Of course we fecking crumbled without him. What the funk are you babbling on about?
The quality has always been there, people just refused to see it for a long time due to a mixture of his price tag, not being exotic enough, and the lack of a proper defensive partner and strong keeper.
He’s a top defender and he still has room to grow. Get him a decent partner and we’ll be a much stronger team next season.
He’s a top defender and he still has room to grow. Get him a decent partner and we’ll be a much stronger team next season.
This
Stop singing and give us Varane.
Oh yeah I was just joining in the fun getting carried away with the rest of the folks in here. Steve Bruce is a much more legitimate comparison! He’ll need a few more years of consistent performances for us but I could see him reaching that sort of status.
We were conceding goals prior to his injury was the point.
In the last 3 games Maguire played [the Villa one he didn’t even play the full 90] we conceded 5 goals. . . but, but, ‘the Roma game was a nothing match’ so. . .
Of those games we crumbled, we conceded 4 to Liverpool with our best available team & were woeful against Villarreal - if we’re discounting the away Roma game then allowances should surely be made for the fact we were playing u23 teams at points towards the end the season.
He was sorely missed against Pool & Villarreal, but context only matters in Rome apparently.
By your ‘logic’ we’re blaming the fact we couldn’t muster more than 1 goal against Fulham on him, calm down.
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There's been definitely an exaggeration to the effect his absence had on the team, the goal we conceded in the final could've easily happened with him on the pitch. As a matter of fact, we conceded a similar goal against Everton while he was in no man's land.
That said he's a good player and performing well for England, we need him as his reliability is very important.
That said he's a good player and performing well for England, we need him as his reliability is very important.
Really weird post.
Best CB of the tournament so far. The Italians second for me.
It just feels so good this bulldozer of a CB is our player.
It just feels so good this bulldozer of a CB is our player.
Wtf
That initial post being whatever it is, I find the last line of this post and similar one in the earlier one incredibly disrespectful towards him and what he has brought to the club. You are ignoring everything, and just focussing on some performances which came just after his incidents in Greece.
He may be no Vidic, but he is a top tier CB in the world currently and if you give him similar quality partner at United, you will see how much it transforms our defence further.
I think the whole Greece debacle is an important point. It definitely resulted in a shaky start to the season before he grew into it. It's important that he's having a great tournament, hopefully that carries through to next season with a potential new defensive partner.
fecking ell, you are actually gonna pull out Rome away? Where we started Bailly and DvB and were absolutely out of sight?
That’s your evidence we were already on a downward trajectory? Cause I mean, that is the only game. The other two games of your selected 3 we conceded one per game.
So fecking Rome away, proof that we were set to utterly crumble to fecking pieces after Maguire’s injury despite. Give your head a massive wobble.
We led 1-0 at HT, 7-2 on aggregate. So we swapped Shaw for Telles after 45, Williams for AWB at 45, Matic for Pogba at 63.
From a 1-0 (7-2) lead we played a back 4 with 3 backup players.
Honestly, your post is so dumb it almost makes me angry.
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‘Forget the context of your post & what it was intended for it criticised a player I like so I’m going to take offence.’
I later go on in the post you’ve not really read to say I rate him higher than the initial posters ‘solid’ categorisation.
His poor performances post Greece? Did you watch him after Project Restart? Spurs away, Southampton, Bournemouth - again this is the mental gymnastics people play with this guy that I just don’t get.
He is a damn good CB, he is not without fault.
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