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2024-25 Performances

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5.7 Season Average Rating
Appearances
26
Clean sheets
6
Goals
2
Assists
0
Yellow cards
8
edgecutter said:
He's going to be a year older and looks like he is being found out in the back 3. There has to be better options than just keeping him on 200k for another year.
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If we are playing 3 CBs. To replace Maguire in the summer. We need to buy 3 CBs.

We are losing Lindelof and Evans. If Maguire went then.

That leaves: De Ligt, Yoro, Maz and two players who cannot in any way be relied upon to keep fit in Martinez and Shaw. Oh a a kid who has never played a senior game.

As it is, we need two CBs this summer.
 
ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg said:
If we are playing 3 CBs. To replace Maguire in the summer. We need to buy 3 CBs.

We are losing Lindelof and Evans. If Maguire went then.

That leaves: De Ligt, Yoro, Maz and two players who cannot in any way be relied upon to keep fit in Martinez and Shaw. Oh a a kid who has never played a senior game.

As it is, we need two CBs this summer.
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I agree, but I don't think it was a good idea to have him around. He's a failure of a signing on far too much money for what he offers. We need to be more savy in the market and never spend 80 million on a slow cumbersome centre back.
 
chris123 said:
It goes slightly unnoticed, but it's impossible to play a high line with this guy in the center of your defense because he instantly drops 10 yards off his man because of his lack of pace. He was absolutely dreadful today.
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Agree and I can't see us ever being good until we can address this. We will never be able to play an aggressive modern style of football on the front foot with Harry Maguire in defence. It is criminal to also start De Ligt alongside and Casemiro infront. Just asking to be torn to shreds
 
It's just incredible/hilarious he's lasted this long - should have been forced out years ago.

Easiest game plan in the world when teams play against United - press Maguire to death and he will panic and fumble.
 
Gandalf Greyhame said:
You know how it feels ridiculous that we let Lingard play 150 times for us? We're going to feel the same about Maguire once he's replaced.
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Most already feel like that. He's overstayed his welcome by about 5 years. He's basically a Michael Dawson level defender, and we got absolutely rinsed by Leicester for him.
 
He had a bad day today, a really bad day but he’s been one of our better centre halves this season.

Is he our future? Of course not, but recently he’s been nowhere near as calamitous as he was today.
 
He belongs at a mid-table club which plays a low defensive line, and it's a shame we weren't able to cash in when West Ham were interested in the summer. That's basically his level IMO.
 
The Maguire and Antony transfers (albeit overseen by different people), are the two worst recruitment decisions this club has made and has set us back years.

Absolutely disgraceful.

It’s just common sense you need to recruit athletes who can play football. At the very least if they are having a bad day they can often get themselves and their team out of trouble with sheer pace and power. If you have neither as in the case of Antony, you are always up against it.
 
He had redeemed his United reputation somewhat in the last 12 months or so with some steady performances, but the last month or so has been a return to "classic" Maguire. Slow, tentative, error prone.

Is Johnny Evans injured, I don't think he could be that worse an option as the central CB at the moment! He's surely not as slow as Maguire and wouldn't make as many mistakes!
 
Pav1878 said:
The Maguire and Antony transfers (albeit overseen by different people), are the two worst recruitment decisions this club has made and has set us back years.

Absolutely disgraceful.

It’s just common sense you need to recruit athletes who can play football. At the very least if they are having a bad day they can often get themselves and their team out of trouble with sheer pace and power. If you have neither as in the case of Antony, you are always up against it.
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Speed, athleticism and physicality seem to have been things we have almost completely ignored for a long time. Consequently we are now one of if not the weakest teams overall in those qualities.

Maguire has his uses in certain games but he is painfully slow in everything he does. Second goal is perfect illustration of what you are talking about, bit of pace and he cuts out the cross which isn’t very good and that’s the end of the attack. Instead he can’t quite get there then is too slow to react and flat footed.
 
united for life said:
He really looked overwhelmed in the center of that defense. If i recall, he played really well as a left sided CB for england’s back 3. Why not play him as such with de ligt in the center?
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The (generous) praise he was getting this season was based on his form at the centre of the 3.

He's just not very good. Exposing him to more 1v1 situations in the wide centre back role is not going to help anything. His ability on the ball is even worse on the left side as he's on his weak foot.

You can't fix being slow. Slow reaction times, slow running, slow turning, slow to execute his passes.

Baffled that we extended his contract, it's time to start building a squad without the players who have proven they're not good enough over many years.
 
You would think for player playing CB with no pace in premier league, you would try and improve your game intelligence to make up for it but no.
 
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Was at his worst today, like a poor under 12 player for the two Everton goals and then damn lucky he didn't give a penalty away. With Martinez out for the season he needs to at least cop on and do the basics right.
 
Pav1878 said:
The Maguire and Antony transfers (albeit overseen by different people), are the two worst recruitment decisions this club has made and has set us back years.

Absolutely disgraceful.

It’s just common sense you need to recruit athletes who can play football. At the very least if they are having a bad day they can often get themselves and their team out of trouble with sheer pace and power. If you have neither as in the case of Antony, you are always up against it.
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Maguire obviously wasn’t worth the fee paid but had 2 between good to brilliant seasons. There’s multiple players we’ve signed since who you can argue barely had 2 brilliant games
 
If I had to describe his performance today with one word: Lethargic. Some of the things that our CB's were going today: real headscratchers.

De Ligt had a shot on our goal that ended up in a corner. Maguire ball watching for the 2 goals. Onana punching it into the danger zone consistently. Nothing reeks confidence in the back line at the moment. No wonder we are leaking goals.
 
Can't believe (well i can actually it is united after all) in 2025 United gave him a new contract.

This club will never learn.
 
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