When have I slagged Maguire? He's our best centre back by some distance, anyone who thinks otherwise is clueless. I brought up the Jose era as he bought Bailly n Linda and didn't fancy them either and you conceded that the goals conceded then was due to the defensive approach of the team. You're...
Bailly and Lindelof were Jose's signings and even he knew they weren't good enough, I don't see any other way to view it in fairness other than starting them and sitting Maguire is a horrible idea. Just own it and quit shifting the goal posts lol.
"However I would put that down to Jose's more defensive style"
You rebutted your own point re goals conceded, it's not just the centre backs that concede. We play a far more attacking style now which leaves us more open, buying a top class def midfielder would help imo. But if we play openly...
Yeah give Bailly and Lindelof a run, it's almost like the Mourinho years never happened lol. They didn't work and he wanted to buy Maguire in 2018, Ed turned him down sacked him then paid more the following year lol.
Rio needs to be quiet like a lot of our ex players, get behind the team not piss on them, their time has passed and as Tony Soprano says "'remember when' is the lowest form of conversation". We could remind Rio that he didn't iron out his many calamities at the back until he was in his late...
Apologies I'll try to suspend reality and see his point that Maguire should have broken the sound barrier, got to the by line, performed a full 180 turn before the ball arrived and headed it 40 yards clear :)
Credit to Dan James he's been given an opportunity the last few matches and is taking it with both hands. Good to see, and I'll be honest I'd written him off and felt he should have been sold in January - fair play to the lad
Terrible header? He got as good a contact on it while running towards his own goal as you can get, if he makes contact any other way it flies into his own net. The other option, which isn't an option, is to not make any contact and let the ball fly into the goalmouth. The players behind him were...