Manchester United Maguire agrees to leave, Ten Haag is willing to sell!

Rio Ferdinand recently answered questions from fans on his Channel 5 that Ten Haag would allow Maguire to leave Manchester United if the club were willing to make an offer in next summer’s window. And Maguire is reluctant to sit on the bench all the time, and he will also agree to join other teams to get the chance to play. Ferdinand even said that he would prefer AC Milan’s Tomori to Maguire.

The reason for this problem is that Maguire seems to have lost his main position in the new season. Manchester United have played a total of 8 league games this season. Maguire has only played 3 starts and 2 substitutes. Playing time is only 280 minutes, Lisandro and Varane are obviously more in line with the idea of ​​ten Hagers.

Some media even directly called Lisandro + Varane’s center-back partner as the only center-back combination that Manchester United can approach Ferdinand + Vidic in the post-Ferguson era.

It appears that with Varane’s injury and Lisandro’s stability, Maguire will struggle to challenge for their starting berth, but United are not yet at the point where they need to sell Maguire. The performance wasn’t that bad either. Maguire has enjoyed two high-profile seasons at Manchester United since joining in the summer of 2019 for a fee of 87 million euros.

The addition of Maguire makes up for the shortcomings of Manchester United’s poor central defender confrontation ability and insufficient air defense ability. In the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 seasons, Maguire averaged 357 meters per game and successfully competed for the top five with a success rate of 75%.

In those two seasons, Maguire only missed five league games for United, and that was due to injury.

However, in last year’s European Cup, he returned from injury ahead of schedule and suffered a big battle on the rest day. Maguire’s form declined badly last season, making many low-level defensive mistakes. The reason seems to be a tactical change factor. Last season, Manchester United adopted more of a single-midfield defensive strategy, and the defensive line began to be a major premise, resulting in Maguire being repeatedly exposed in front of the opposing fast-break forwards.

So much so that as long as Maguire plays, Manchester United will lose the rumours. Italian star Chiellini played for Maguire in an interview recently, thinking that it could not be because of Maguire’s £80 million transfer fee, I believe Maguire must show world-class performance in every game.

Indeed, Maguire’s performances began to level off in the second half of last season, and his three league losses this season have nothing to do with Maguire’s performance. To a certain extent, Maguire is only a short-term victim of United’s tactical changes. After two consecutive losses this season, the Ten Witches had to change their tactical system. Instead of choosing Maguire, who is more capable of frontal defense. But it would be inappropriate to sell Maguire for that reason alone.

Maguire still has a place at Manchester United, and Ten Hag can’t sign another centre-back with the same budget. What Maguire needs now should be trust and regain his confidence. Manchester United were exceptional last season. You shouldn’t continue to judge a player by his performance last season. If you have to use it, why not use last season’s performance?

You know, Arsenal star Merson also said recently that he had called to apologize to Maguire because the previous criticism was indeed too much.