Jamie Carragher has said that Manchester United captain Harry Maguire needs to quickly snap out of his poor form to have a career at the club.
Maguire and United had a night to forget on Tuesday as they were dumped out of the Champions League by Atletico Madrid. The defender was substituted in the 84th minute for Juan Mata and the decision was cheered by certain sections of Old Trafford.
This caught the attention of Carragher, who sympathized with the English defender. However, the Liverpool legend warned Maguire that he will need to improve his performances quickly to have a future at Manchester United.
"The Manchester United captain who cost £80million was taken off in the game."
"He is going through the worst moment in his career right now. We all have that moment, I can picture it now when I was playing. It felt like no matter what I did in a game, how well I prepared for it, how well I played in it. The one thing I did wrong and the ball ended up in the back of my net. And I always remember when that was and that period of my career."
"This is something that Harry Maguire is going through right now and he has to get out of it very quickly otherwise he won’t be at the club because the standards at Manchester United are so high. Of course he wants to [get out of it] but his head will be all over the place, he is getting criticism left right and centre," said Carragher.
The Liverpool legend continued by saying it isn't nice to have your fans cheer for your substitution from the game.
"He’ll be criticized again – I think the crowd actually cheered when he went off. Which isn’t a nice thing for anyone."
"I’ve always been a fan of Harry Maguire. He gets criticized because he cost £80m. Virgil van Dijk cost £75m and is the best defender in the world. Harry Maguire is not that but he doesn’t set the price. He had a great summer with England at the Euros but this season has been a disaster and he almost just needs to get to the end of the season and just forget about football and get away."
"He's having a really tough time. And every decision he makes, he's probably overthinking it," said Carragher
With the Champions League exit, United will need to focus on nailing the top four spot in the Premier League. However, Arsenal do hold the advantage over them at the moment.
Manchester United captain Harry Maguire has received a lot of stick from the fans this season
Maguire has endured a lot of criticism from the Manchester United fans this campaign as many felt he cost the team a lot due to his mistakes.
The Old Trafford faithful were hoping to see the English defender arrive in a rich vein of form after an incredible Euros 2020 campaign. However, the former Leicester City man hasn't been up to the mark and even scored an own goal in Manchester United's recent Premier League outing against Tottenham.
There have been reports suggesting that the Red Devils are already looking to sign a world-class defender in the summer.
A recent report also stated that Manchester United have made a contract offer to Ronald Araujo in a bid to lure him away from Barcelona.
Maguire could find himself out of the starting XI soon if his form doesn't improve and it will put a big question mark over his future in the summer.
IkennayaMartins
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This man is always one sided
muwbdilnoy
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I blame the stubbornness of ragknik who refuses to drop him so he feels he playing well cause the coach keeps picking him despite being poor .mr ragknik it's time to give up your pride and change formation and the useless tactics cause we could of kept the orthe coach you are no better than him
hibdklrst
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selling him
Homckln
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findnyz
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former arsenal mustafi is better than Harry Maguire 💯 per cent
nigelgweu
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Harry Maguire "Sorry bro, for a moment I thought I was Harry Kane"
lusdlnptuy
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I'm sure this carragher was once doing it as Maguire, he just don't want to tell us the truth. I think Maguire is better that this carragher the different is only that Maguire cost 80 mil and this stupid old carragher cost maybe 3 mil. He talks nonsense alot. which standards are high at United, maybe high standard of playing nonsense like you carragher have high standard of just making noise everywhere
you are the stupid fool for not understanding the content of what carra said
franciskasule
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I remember the way they criticized David luiz because he's not an English player, but regardless his advice was good ,the donkey finally spoke some sense
Minel233
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advice for him to be benched so can come back stronger, rather than talk against Chelsea fc
ARNOLD7MANU
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English pundits choosing their words carefully, respectfully. If it's another country defender there playing like Maguire they will have at her faces. what a shame.
yeyciknop
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I'm sure this carragher was once doing it as Maguire, he just don't want to tell us the truth. I think Maguire is better that this carragher the different is only that Maguire cost 80 mil and this stupid old carragher cost maybe 3 mil. He talks nonsense alot. which standards are high at United, maybe high standard of playing nonsense like you carragher have high standard of just making noise everywhere
Pupcnpsu
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Buy body, you talk to much you talk about man u an talk nonsense about Chelsea...The point is that you dont have any job only here to talk stupid words all the time, you can go back an play for man u or because the new manager..
koyadkors
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leave man u alone. u talk abt man u always. man u is not only club in England. and u are not our legend. go to Liverpool dats were you belong.