Also agree. 2 CB's have to leave if we sign Maguire.
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Koscielny ffs 
I blame his veganism
Jones has an own goal in him almost to an extent of Wes Brown. Smalling has never scored so many own goals - whereas he actually did score some goals into the opposition net (although not many - on average 2-2.5 per season i guess)
Every defender makes mistake, that's not the issue, the issue is that he's not an intelligent player. He struggles to spot runs into dangerous areas, which runs he should follow and what he should prioritize. Silly fouls (also penalties) when the player is moving away from goal and all Smalling has to do is stay on his feet.
The most entertaining part of this thread has been the title changes
And I stand by what I said - there are others who need to be shipped out before him. Others with the same issues AND injury problems
I've always maintained that Chris "Mike" Smalling is like watching a lower league defender (maybe third tier) having the game of their life against a Premier League team in the Cup. That's not necessarily a bad thing - at least he's committed - but it is what it is, he's got that ceiling in terms of ability on the ball, distribution, etc
Which is fine, but that doesn't make him all that good either, which is the point.
If we sign Maguire we should play Lindelof next to him.
As a Leicester fan I hope you do this too.
so that's the second time within a week or so that Harry Maguire has become the most expensive defender in history and people have lost their marbles because of an outrageous fee. Poor Harry has probably undergone multiple medicals too, yet he's still sitting in Leicester's training camp. Wonder why?
if people would at least learn their lesson and didn't believe every shite "source" in the future, but I doubt it.
if people would at least learn their lesson and didn't believe every shite "source" in the future, but I doubt it.
Physically he's fine. Mentally, he has absolutely no brain. You can't be a centre back without thinking and Bailly never thinks, he reacts.
I should have made it clearer that I wouldn't advocate only signing Koscielny.Koscielny
But having Alderweireld and Lindelof as your main pairing with Koscielny ready to fill in for Europa League games would hardly be the worst thing.
As a Manchester United supporter i wouldnt like nothing more.
CB's should be shipped out in this order
Rojo - I mean what's the point
Jones - Cannot stay fit has an error in him
Bailly - Looks nervous, has regressed, become more and more injury prone
Smalling - Has errors in him, but can be generally reliable in terms of fitness
When We signed Smalling what did We see? A young, quick, strong, no nonsense defender that looked like to be the future of England. He played mostly at RB for the first year and did good so He had nice feet as well.
Enter Jones. He became the right back replacing Smalling, the new Duncan Edwards. From that point on, Smalling started to lose his footing more frequently, his defending was slowly becoming nonsense defending, his hair grew curlier and He appeared less in interviews.
Now apply that to McGuire. If We're about to sign him, What do We see? A commanding, ball playing CB with proper footing that would put Chris Smalling to shame? Ok.
First day in training, enter Jones.
Enter Jones. He became the right back replacing Smalling, the new Duncan Edwards. From that point on, Smalling started to lose his footing more frequently, his defending was slowly becoming nonsense defending, his hair grew curlier and He appeared less in interviews.
Now apply that to McGuire. If We're about to sign him, What do We see? A commanding, ball playing CB with proper footing that would put Chris Smalling to shame? Ok.
First day in training, enter Jones.
Maguire. MAGUIRE. To the letter son. THE LETTER!
Imagine someone post a rumour about Mcguire joining Atletico Bilbao, oh boi, that poor soul would have his ear full.
Every defender even world class ones like Stam and Vidic have shockers, so it's no surprise that a player of Smallings level can have them too. That was one game and he wasn't alone that day in being awful.
Do you judge every player solely on one performance or just Smalling?
Mother of God.Athletico* Bilbao
The fact that this is the game that everyone brings up when criticising Smalling says it all. He shouldn't have even been playing that game because he had broken his toe in a couple of spots (kind of a big deal for a football player) the previous match, but Mourinho had been pressuring him to play through it. He had to take almost two months off after that match to actually let it heal. That performance was all on Mourinho making such a stupid decision.
I don't buy this. He isn't good at all, his positioning is really bad, he panics, and he has a mistake on him.
Smalling and Lindelof are much better. Him and Rojo should have been sold years ago.
Don’t let fact and logic get in the way there. This is the Chris smalling bashing thread!
Wait, it’s not?!
Maguire has been having his medical for a week now!
Patience hun x
Can we do a word replacement on the Caf? Whenever someone uses Maguire it replaces it with McGuire? That'd be grand.
I think they may not want to sell one of their bettter players, I hope it's not that he doesn't want to come. I agree with your part in bold as I think he is a really good very big guy at 1.93m and 93kg, strong in the tackle and able to handle the toughest strikers, wins a lot of aerial duels and is good at interceptions. Think there is a reason Jose praised him "a monster" after they beat us last year.We can only assume that either they don't want to sell or he doesn't want to come said:
*MacGuaryrere akshully
McGyver would be better.
What makes you think it would be easy to sign Diop this late in the transfer window? How is he any better than who we have?
No one before the transfer window opened had Diop as a target, and he has had one season with West Ham where they leaked goals as well.
I would rather go into the season with Tuanzebe and Smalling alongside Lindelof than signing Diop. there is no logic to it at all.
Chris Smalling bashing thread
McGuiver, Mcguire and the rest is our brand new Atletico Athletic case.
HE DOESN'T HAVE MC IN HIS SURNAME FFS!
HE DOESN'T HAVE MC IN HIS SURNAME FFS!
McSlabhead.
So the answer to ensuring we don’t find ourselves in a Sanchez-style situation (an ageing player who has had injuries and will demand huge wages) is to buy somebody like Toby Alderweireld?
United don’t need statements signings. We need a centre half that can head the ball and play out from the back. Given availability, it seems Maguire is the best option we have - hence the interest.
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