That’s a good point, I hadn’t realised it but he has missed a fair few games this season.
I suppose it’s more weird that he was indestructible, he’s a big lad, not exactly young anymore……he should be injury prone
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I suppose it’s more weird that he was indestructible, he’s a big lad, not exactly young anymore……he should be injury prone
Feel like he missed a fair chunk of last season as well.
It's quite a lot of time out for a guy who doesn’t actually put that many 90 mins in.
Personally just had enough of carrying injury prone players.
Low-key yes but he's still available for most of the games and think he'll be useful for us next season. Then in 2026 don't extent the contract when he's 33 and get someone else.
His form was pretty good prior to this latest injury, but I can't help feeling that we look a better side without him. Defence pushes higher up rather than sit deep to cover for the lack of pace.
That’s been there from day one, the moment he was signed, United became a defensive countering team.
Maguire is suited to defensive low block. No big team would pick him up, he’s a liability 1v1 with any tricky attacker.
He’s done alright in his time but time for him to go.
Aye, it's not a coincidence we have less Everton kind of games without him where we look like amateur in defence and opponents score from almost every chance they create. Even yesterday when Leicester created some good chances nobody made a mess out of defending and we defended well.
He is simply too slow in some situations and too mistake prone, I think he makes the defenders and goalkeeper more nervous too.
A non blundering defender gets us what Maguire does on his best days. He’s better than Lindelof but that’s just about it.
The youngsters have stepped up. At the very least next season he won't be needed.
I would hope we can add one more CB in the summer so we don’t have to play Maguire even when we have an injury
I'd be down to cash him on him in the summer, although I think Amorim will keep him around. Only experience around quite a few young guys.
We'll be going into the summer with: Licha, Heaven, De Ligt, Maguire, Yoro, Maz as our CB options, not counting on Shaw for obvious reasons. Looks pretty thin tbh.
We'll be going into the summer with: Licha, Heaven, De Ligt, Maguire, Yoro, Maz as our CB options, not counting on Shaw for obvious reasons. Looks pretty thin tbh.
I'd say that he's a fairly decent player to have around for another season. With De Ligt about to cement his place as the starting CCB, an experienced homegrown backup with a seemingly very professional and determined personality isn't he worst backup to have in the squad.
Yes, his wages are obviously to high for his output, but with a very limited resale value and a transfer fee that is likely to be shared 50/50 with the player (as reported with the other +1 year players last summer), I'm struggling to see the obvious alternatives/replacements for him. Especially when focus should be on new ST, AM, CM, RWB and perhaps even GK as well.
Yes, his wages are obviously to high for his output, but with a very limited resale value and a transfer fee that is likely to be shared 50/50 with the player (as reported with the other +1 year players last summer), I'm struggling to see the obvious alternatives/replacements for him. Especially when focus should be on new ST, AM, CM, RWB and perhaps even GK as well.
If we get a decent bid for him then it's time to cut ties. But if we don't, I'd keep him for next year for cover.
If we sell Maguire - we need to replace him. I just don’t think that’s hassle we need this summer.
I don’t think we can count on Martinez at all. So we are not that well stocked.
How much would it cost to replace Maguire? £30-50m? Heaven is a once in a generation bargain.
Those saying to sell him in the summer - how much are you expecting to even get from him? He's 32, has a year left on his contract, on nearly £200k a week and mostly a back-up these days. I'm not sure anybody is paying more than £10m for him to be honest.
I think more he will push for it? He's only got one 3-4 year deal left at his age and it looks certain it won't be here. I think we can easily get £15-20m for him. He's solid just not elite. The blades might come up, maybe an emotional return for him there + makes sense for a team who want to play a bit more defensively/direct because he's really good in that setup.
Nearly £10 million in wages as well.
For a guy who is picking up quite a few injuries it's expensive.
I'd say if there's an opportunity to move him on take it.
Dalot probably becomes one of the CB options as well assuming we're signing a RWB.
No chance. He will get a better deal the following summer when leaves on a free and no one is forking out 15-20m on a 32 year old earning 190k
I guess it depends on what is more attractive.
Paying a small fee for a 32 year old, or waiting a year and signing a 33 year old (who likely won’t have played much) on a free. His wage isn’t really a big deal if he wants to leave now, and we also don’t know if that’s what his actual base wage is it’s worth saying.
Maguire will stay and collect the bag. This has already been proven with the West Ham situation the other summer.
No one is forking out 15-20m AND dishing out a high salary for a player his age
Branthwaite (assuming we don't go for him), Maguire, Tarkowski and O'Brien would be an absolutely unit of a back four. Probably would have suited Dyche more but I wouldn't rule out Moyes.
Fingers crossed
Oh yeah, for sure, and ideally get someone experienced too given how young the rest of them are, that's what I meant.
The fact that we exercised the one year option on him means we’re probably OK with him staying as rotation/back-up, even with such high wages. If we were concerned about wages, we probably would’ve let him go on a free this summer.
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The most threat we've seen upfront all season.
Start him up front from now on
Got on the end of crosses. Something our "strikers" are absolutely allergic to
He almost scored twice. That header had to go in though, imo.
It was behind him, no way he was getting that on target even with his massive head
Shame about that last chance, if he was able to take a better shot or just pass it to Hojlund it's a certain goal. Still, great impact sub and almost got us result.
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I've said it quite a few times on this forum, Maguire would outscore Hojlund or Zirkzee if he played upfront all season.
Fellaini-like without the goals.
I really believe that, at least in PL, we'd score more goals with Maguire as striker. It doesn't mean that he'd score plenty of goals, but his presence would bring more opportunities for others to score.
If he is actually deploy as an striker, he more than probably will produce more memes than the current tons of them that already exist defending.
One thing it's when Man Utd sends evryone to head the ball to save the day, another it's to see constantly Harry trying to control long high balls, face defenders with his back facing the rival's net, trying to pass in tight spaces, etc etc etc...in fact after just naming three secnarios among many he'll have to face, I'm all for it just for the entertaining value.
At this time, I'm willing to cling on any hope, which Maguire gave a bit on that cameo. It may or may not work, but why not just try and see if it continues to work or not.
At the same time it will destroy any resembrance of hope of Rasmus actually getting better and for real, jokes aside, Harry can become a nightmare in a full time striker role. On the other hand, Man Utd must create some sort of system where he can have it as easir as the team can for him to go foward by surprise or be avaiable on every dead ball situation near the rival's net if he is in the field.
Nah.. Amorim's system doesn't allow a CB to go venture as a striker often. Probably only once or twice in a whole game, which will be really difficult to make any impact.
Maguire when played, always on every dead ball situation. So that's already happened.
Rasmus can play every other half, just like he's been in some (if not most games) anyway. I don't see how this will "destroy" any hope. He rarely play full games.
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Pretty good. Guess he can't play whole 90 minutes atm so Amorim took him off after 60 minutes.
Hope he wasn't injured and it was just a precaution. Decent. Could be a set piece threat against Lyon.
Olympique Lyonnais 2:2 Man Utd
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Decent game and I thought we lost a bit of cohesion when he was subbed.
Yeah he shouldn't have come off
Brings balance to that back 3. Fair play to him.