Harry Maguire

This is the big problem.

This group of players at United have seen off, what, three managers now? Four? I mean they see off everybody Mourinho didn't have a personality big enough for it No, between Maguire, Shaw, Dallow, Bruno.

Doesn't it have to be a core? This is what I don't understand.

I'm like, how does a culture stay toxic for so long? My view of culture, you need a strong leader.

And he shirked that.

He shirked that.

And Harry Maguire, still there.

He's still there.

You don't have a backup striker.

And you then, you have Harry Maguire as your...

I knew you were going to say that.

As your number one center back.

Because then... you start running backwards.

So, man is just like a defender that can go there, make sure you don't get that ball and turn.

And Harry Maguire, he doesn't want to leave that back line.

He can't because he can't spin back.

It's always the Manchester Derby.

And they got a big result against Arsenal last season as well at the Emirates, right? Harry Maguire even said in an interview, I don't know if you caught it, he said, you know, he said Arsenal were the best team in the league last season by far.

And he was alluding to how the Emirates game, he said, we scored some screamers.

We scored some screamers.

I think he was a left-back, to be fair to him, but certainly not at the level where he can be responsible for a defence like Man United's.

And then, of course, you have Harry Maguire, who's been there forever, and Diogo Dalot, who's been there forever, and they're both rubbish.

So Man United fans are understandably annoyed about the lack of recruitment in that area.

They've recruited him in field.

Once Barcelona decided they didn't see value in Rashford because of his expensive wages, no other club was going to go near him.

They couldn't punt Harry Maguire to West Ham a couple of seasons ago because West Ham wouldn't take on his wages.

Oftentimes they're having to pay players part wages to actually leave the club.

They do spend money.

Maybe they can't afford to water the pitch half-time.

Big fan of Harry Maguire just going, yeah, you're going to get that.

And Martinez stopped running as well.

They just both left.

And then, yeah, you go on to the owners and you go on to what they've done.

We played Bournemouth with Dallow, a right-back at left-back, a centre-half at right-back, a 20-year-old centre-half from Arsenal, who we pinched from their youth team, Maguire, who got given the armband after it had him stripped, the captain dropped, a right-winger up front, a midfielder at left wing, it's like, what has happened? And it's such a mess.

And I think the fact that the people in charge who have done all of that stuff, who have appointed the manager, who have bought the players, who have set up a model, they said they weren't going to jump from Guardiola to Conte, to Mourinho style when they come in.

They've gone one worse.

We've not gone man-to-man all season, so I don't know what...

Have you got the players to go man-to-man? That's where I defend Carrick.

He's got Maguire, Martinez, right-back, left-back.

If we're going to go man-to-man, you're going to expect Martinez and Maguire to push on to Nico Paz, who's getting it off centre-halves.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, like Harry Maguire said it back at the end of the season, or the beginning of the summer, he said, we need a really, really big summer, place for the starting XI.

I took that as meaning, like, relegate me, lads.

Because they want to, especially some of these players who are a bit older, and it's their last chance to win stuff.

There are numbers on the basis that you assume De Ligt's coming back.

And for me, the first choice centre-back, ideally, is De Ligt and Euro, right? But he's been playing so much.

I'm a big Harry Maguire fan, but he shouldn't be the starting centre-back.

Wouldn't

Is that what you're suggesting? Yes, that's what happened.

Right, so what confuses me out, did you see the one in the English Premier League a few weeks back? And it was Harry Maguire, Man United goal, which was allowed to stand because the shot was off target and he was offside.

Sorry, the handball, sorry.

I bet he's going off

But if these guys who are in control of it are unsure...

It makes life difficult for everybody.

Yeah, and I think also the Harry Maguire one, I think the acceptance, even though it seemed hard on, maybe it was Ipswich, I can't remember.

It seemed hard on them, but there seemed to be an acceptance that they'd got it right.