" the only really interesting thing about Manchester United right now is how unhappy people are about Manchester United. The most powerful element, the only real energy at the club, is that apparently bottomless well of dismay."
wow. just wow.
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Exactly which combination of Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Ralf Rangnick, Fred, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and an aged celebrity striker is supposed to guarantee elite-tier success?
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Just read this from an earlier The Guardian’s article:
Harry Maguire, it hardly needs saying, is not having a good time. A player who can look so commanding, particularly in the less demanding world of international football, has become a liability. It may not be fair, but when he is playing poorly, Maguire’s appearance counts against him because he looks so ungainly, wobbling into challenges with all the grace of an Easter Island figure being brought down from the quarry.
There was a moment in the first half when he won the ball off De Bruyne because he mistimed his challenge so badly that the Belgian couldn’t process what had happened and ran into his prone legs.
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I am 100% getting this put on a t-shirt.
When life gives you a bad football team: make bad football team-ade.
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I disagree with Ronay on Maguire. He isn’t just in bad form or struggling in the harsh glare of greater scrutiny. He is just fucking shit. The £80m that Leicester robbed them of has to be considered up there with what we did to Barca with Coutinho.
The real question is what on earth went wrong at Utd to convince them to splurge that on a player with such obvious deficiencies in his game. What rank insecurities exist at Old Trafford that led them to look at what we paid for Van Dijk and want to go five million further?
And you could say the same of Pogba. £85m for a football player who, even to the casual observer, seemed more concerned with his social media persona than with his improvement as a footballer. Do they have a no dickheads policy at Utd?
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Coutinho is a class player who joined a club which was very wrong for him. The class of the player still remains (even if in patches). Maguire is a shit player who’s gotten paid 80m just because it’s Manchester United and he’s English.
The robbery of Leicester is way more in comparision. Coutinho just didn’t work out in the spanish league. Maguire wouldn’t even work in the championship.
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They saw him play one good game for England and went “That’s our man”. That was the extent of the scouting and stats 
I seem to remember David Platt being elevated way beyond his abilities off the back of one good game too, years ago?
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Wasn’t that the game when he scored a header or something ?
I didn’t recall him doing anything else of particularly importance during that match. Nothing over and above basics
An overhead goal I think.
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I thought all his goals were headed ? That’s the probably only half decent use of that slab… the wide surface area i mean
Imagine the manures being so desperate to sign someone who was an improvement over Smalling, Evans, Jones that in hindsight, They’d rather wish they had those three instead.
85m spent with a fuckload of salary paid and they only weakened themselves. What a cock up
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Oh right, I thought you meant David Platt. I can’t remember which England game it was (I don’t usually bother watching them) but he did have a good match. Might have scored a header, yeah.
Maguire will be at Everton next season, where most of the Utd rejects go.
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Will probably be made the captain there
I could see him at Burnley. He’s got that ‘scaffolder’ look to him.
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I meant Maguire actually.
I saw Maguire overhead goal and spat out my coffee.
Then I googled it and found this:
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Even with Tarkowski gone, Maguire won’t make the first choice Burnley team.
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Maguire was fine in the Premier League at Leicester and Hull. Even at Utd he was doing OK until they tried to play a more attacking style. With England, again her does fine because of the protection he gets in that set up.
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Harsh, Cou has two functioning feet and a footballing brain.
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