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2021-22 Performances

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4.6 Season Average Rating
Appearances
37
Clean sheets
7
Goals
2
Assists
0
Yellow cards
9
Red cards
1
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His bear hug tackling 'technique' drives me insane, so often he gets away with it too.

I always feel like the opposition has a goal or two in them whenever he plays, particularly if they play on the counter.
 
Revan said:
He has been utter crap during his time here except the second half of last season. So yes, form is only temporary and he regressed back to his previous self after playing pretty good for a few months.
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Would you put your life on to say Lindelof is a better centre back than Maguire? I wouldn’t dare to put my life on to say who’s better centre back among the two craps. Even if Lindelof plays instead of Maguire last night, do you think we wouldn’t conceded the similar goal? Because we kinda conceded similar goal vs Aston Villa with Lindelof.
 
UNITED ACADEMY said:
However, form is only temporary so Maguire can still be better than Lindelof when his form is clicked again but at the end of the day neither are good enough anyway. Both always make mistakes in important moment.
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He's 29 and has been shite all season. His weaknesses are slow on the turn, no pace, and poor positioning. Maybe he can improve on the positioning side but not on the others. Out of all of our CB's this season he has made the fewest tackles, interception and headed clearances. This is in a season where De Gea is top of the charts for number of saves in the league.
 
SadlerMUFC said:
Read my post again. First off, Verane doesn't even look at Verane. He completely ignores him.
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You misspelling the easiest name around is a minor issue but what the heck does this even mean? And it's not just those surface mistakes, your whole analysis equally lacks comprehension.
 
harms said:
You misspelling the easiest name around is a minor issue but what the heck does this even mean? And it's not just those surface mistakes, your whole analysis equally lacks comprehension.
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Sorry, I meant he doesn't look at Rodriguez. But go on....rubbish my post again with absolutely nothing to back it up other than agendas
 
SadlerMUFC said:
Sorry, I meant he doesn't look at Rodriguez. But go on....rubbish my post again with absolutely nothing to back it up other than agendas
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Let me check what Goldbridge had said on the matter... People have already responded to your post in relative detail — you are a poster with the clearest agenda on the matter.
 
harms said:
You misspelling the easiest name around is a minor issue but what the heck does this even mean? And it's not just those surface mistakes, your whole analysis equally lacks comprehension.
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Yet he knows more about football than most by his own assessment of himself.
 
Adam-Utd said:
I genuinely wonder if he thinks he's being sly. He's probably watched Fernandinho and thought, yeah I can get away with those too.

Unfortunately clotheslining attackers and getting them in sleeper holds isn't quite so obscure.

I think it's fair to say whatever injury he had before the euros has really badly effected him. What I don't get is why he didn't make these stupid errors for England?
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He looks like a man who needs a big break from football and psychological help. He can be so much better than the shit he is serving up this season
 
kouroux said:
He can be so much better than the shit he is serving up this season
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He is better and that's the strange thing. He was great at Hull and Leicester, there's a reason why many people wanted him - Pep included.

Since Greece incident and then his big injury before the Euros that he rushed back for, he's just not been the same.

Making him the Captain was a huge mistake.
 
I think his footballing acumen is being exposed. At Leicester and Hull you can be a great looking centre half by making tackles and winning headers and throwing yourself in front of a bus for the cause. Like goalkeepers at lower level teams. It’s easier to stand out.

Maguire had that extra bonus of also being good with the ball at his feet, stepping out and finding passes. Again, another plus.

But at a top club, where you might only concede 2 or 3 chances a game, you need concentration, positioning and temperament. The amount of times this guy loses the run of himself and steps in instead of jockeying or moves into areas that other players have covered leaving us exposed. He is actually just not very intelligent in a football sense. Makes the fact he is our captain even weirder.
 
Maguire is being forced to defend aggressively without the comfort of his own box behind him, and he's being exposed for it. He's consistently terrible with diving into challenges, and he's terrified at an attacker running at him.

Please get rid of this clown show. I'm also tired of the "he's just out of form". No, he's simply being shown what he's good at and what he isn't.
 
He reminds me of someone who's really bad at defending on FIFA, running full sprint towards every tackle and gets sold by every feint or 1 2. It says everything really.
 
Adam-Utd said:
Since Greece incident and then his big injury before the Euros that he rushed back for, he's just not been the same.
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It became a bit like the Valencia leg break myth. Maguire’s best form for us and probably ever came after the Greece accident.
 
harms said:
It became a bit like the Valencia leg break myth. Maguire’s best form for us and probably ever came after the Greece accident.
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I don't remember that, not immediately anyway. He was definitely a bit wobbly to start with.

Either way you can look at his debut against Chelsea. He was so commanding, looked assured and passed/carried the ball well.

He just doesn't have the same aura around him anymore, he's morphing into Phil Jones.
 
Too much, too soon. Most folks are unable to deal with the pressure, even in a well run club. He needs to be dropped for a while --which necessarily removes the armband -- to get his head straightened out. The poor decisions, positional ineptitude and general brain farts CAN be coached out of him but his shocking lack of pace will never improve. Above all Harry, work on your heading--- into the goal. How much of the abuse he's getting could have been avoided if he scored 6-8 goals per season? Where do we find out how many corners he has gotten a head to but hasn't scored?
 
Too much emphasize is being put on Maguire's shortcomings as a CB, which are 100% justified, he's midtable at best. My bigger concern with Maguire is him being the captain. We have been playing good lately, we start games strong, we make things happen, but. we've had some bad decisions go against us, either way, as a team we fall apart in the second half of the game, or when one of those bad decisions go our way. As a captain he should be lifting up the team, inspiring them, driving them, blasting them if need be, but he's not, the team has no fight, they have no leader, they have no inspiration. The biggest problem facing this club (on the pitch) is the weak mentality of the players, and having a weak man lead them, things will never change.
 
bdspeedy said:
Too much, too soon. Most folks are unable to deal with the pressure, even in a well run club. He needs to be dropped for a while --which necessarily removes the armband -- to get his head straightened out. The poor decisions, positional ineptitude and general brain farts CAN be coached out of him but his shocking lack of pace will never improve. Above all Harry, work on your heading--- into the goal. How much of the abuse he's getting could have been avoided if he scored 6-8 goals per season? Where do we find out how many corners he has gotten a head to but hasn't scored?
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He's 29, we aren't coaching him into a top class centerback, he is what he is, which is not good enough for this club.
 
Theres no way we can offlaod him either. We're stuck with him :lol:
 
The guy couldn't outrun cops on Cyprus, ofcourse he can't do it vs PL attackers.
 
VP89 said:
Theres no way we can offlaod him either. We're stuck with him :lol:
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Just stick him on the bench, don't make too many comments about it and the storm will blow over. At the moment Jones is a more reliable player. What yesterday showed was that Rangnick was too quick to bring Shaw, Rashford and Maguire back in the fold as starters because soon as they felt secure their bad habits crept back.

On a different but more serious note I do worry about his mental health and/or confidence going forward. The criticism he has faced this season is enough to break him a la Jones, there was a time when Jones became too much of a meme and I think with the exposure we have as a club such levels of ridicule can scar a player mentally for a very long time.
 
AneRu said:
Just stick him on the bench, don't make too many comments about it and the storm will blow over. At the moment Jones is a more reliable player. What yesterday showed was that Rangnick was too quick to bring Shaw, Rashford and Maguire back in the fold as starters because soon as they felt secure their bad habits crept back.

On a different but more serious note I do worry about his mental health and/or confidence going forward. The criticism he has faced this season is enough to break him a la Jones, there was a time when Jones became too much of a meme and I think with the exposure we have as a club such levels of ridicule can scar a player mentally for a very long time.
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To be fair I have not seen as much in Elanga as others seem to suggest (going forward). Telles has covid so that decision was thrust upon Rangnick.

I only see Maguire as a mistake selection really.
 
Adam-Utd said:
I don't remember that, not immediately anyway. He was definitely a bit wobbly to start with.

Either way you can look at his debut against Chelsea. He was so commanding, looked assured and passed/carried the ball well.

He just doesn't have the same aura around him anymore, he's morphing into Phil Jones.
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He was poor for a few weeks after Greece but in the second half of the season he had reached the best form that he’s had with us — that subsequently ended with us falling apart after his injury & him reaching the final of Euros with England. It looked like it could be the beginning of something great, but as of today it more and more resembles a purple patch (that was helped by a very defensive tactics that both Ole & Southgate deployed).

His debut against Chelsea was brilliant but he had started to make feck ups soon after and his first season was decent, but very inconsistent on a game to game basis. His best form was certainly after Greece, so I wouldn’t say that it was his undoing (just as Valencia’s best form actually came after the leg break even if the opposite makes for a more convenient narrative).
 
harms said:
He was poor for a few weeks after Greece but in the second half of the season he had reached the best form that he’s had with us — that subsequently ended with us falling apart after his injury & him reaching the final of Euros with England. It looked like it could be the beginning of something great, but as of today it more and more resembles a purple patch (that was helped by a very defensive tactics that both Ole & Southgate deployed).

His debut against Chelsea was brilliant but he had started to make feck ups soon after and his first season was decent, but very inconsistent on a game to game basis. His best form was certainly after Greece, so I wouldn’t say that it was his undoing (just as Valencia’s best form actually came after the leg break even if the opposite makes for a more convenient narrative).
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I certainly don't remember being as angry at him before his injury that's for sure.

He always had a bit of a wobble in him, but it's becoming far too frequent these days.
 
Adam-Utd said:
I certainly don't remember being as angry at him before his injury that's for sure.

He always had a bit of a wobble in him, but it's becoming far too frequent these days.
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Oh, he was never as bad as he is this season. He always had an odd mistake at him (that not always resulted in goal though), but Maguire of 21/22 is on course of having the worst individual season by any United defender that I’ve seen in my lifetime (it doesn’t help that usually players in a bad form got dropped and he keeps getting played).
 
GifLord said:
Rio: Maybe it's the hangover from the Euro's
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Pundits still peddling with this shit
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So Maguire finally got over EL final defeat? Good for him.

Only need until November to get over the Euro hangover, so he can endure the World Cup hangover for 2023. Maguire will be back in 2024.
 
harms said:
Oh, he was never as bad as he is this season. He always had an odd mistake at him (that not always resulted in goal though), but Maguire of 21/22 is on course of having the worst individual season by any United defender that I’ve seen in my lifetime (it doesn’t help that usually players in a bad form got dropped and he keeps getting played).
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Evans during a a few weeks under LVG probably matches it. Maguire looks like McTominay during that one game that he played as a CB under Mourinho.
 
RedRonaldo said:
Worst CB in the league. I don't think there's any contest.
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Yesterday he stopped us from scoring a goal and then was at fault for the goal we conceeded. That takes some doing. The score would have been 2-0 if he wasn’t on the pitch.
 
The thing is would glazers/the board swallow losing £60 mill if we sold him? I think £20 mill would be all he is worth, if we are lucky. He should have the captaincy stripped, given to Verane/Bruno/De Gea and dropped to the bench. Hopefully this would force him to rethink and want to move.
 
wolvored said:
The thing is would glazers/the board swallow losing £60 mill if we sold him? I think £20 mill would be all he is worth, if we are lucky. He should have the captaincy stripped, given to Verane/Bruno/De Gea and dropped to the bench. Hopefully this would force him to rethink and want to move.
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I have seen that several times, what is happening?
 
harms said:
You misspelling the easiest name around is a minor issue but what the heck does this even mean? And it's not just those surface mistakes, your whole analysis equally lacks comprehension.
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:lol: thats class
 
His front foot defending has been really good of late. Oftentimes, he has got in front of the opposition player, nicked the ball and started an attack. However, he didn't need to rush in yesterday. By doing so, he left a massive gaping hole in our defence, which as a result, allowed Burnley to exploit the space.

In his case, I guess he thought McTominay was the wrong side and because of that, he wanted to try and dispossess the Burnley player as soon as it was played in to him. However, worst case scenario, even if McTominay couldn't get there, had Maguire stayed in the back line, then Burnley play it wide or somewhere else.

It was a rush of blood but a costly one. Before that, and even after, Burnley hardly had a sniff, but it's been too often this season that our players, not only Maguire, have been making these mistakes, which has cost us big time.
 
He must be responsible for at least 10 goals by himself this season. His drop off from last season is remarkable.
 
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