Jamie Carragher has again leapt to the defence of Harry Maguire and believes the Manchester United defender is so 'broken' that he was unable to defend himself from previous 'over the top' criticism from goalkeeper Andre Onana.
Maguire has been thrust further into the spotlight after scoring an own goal in England's midweek win over Scotland where opposition supporters mockingly cheered and the 30-year-old's mother hit out at critics in an emotional social media post.
However, Carragher believes the centre-back needs to be shown more respect by some of his team-mates and has doubled-down on his criticism against Onana after the United goalkeeper blasted Maguire during a pre-season friendly against Borussia Dortmund.
Carragher previously claimed Onana deliberately tried to endear himself to Red Devils supporters by 'disgracefully' yelling at Maguire during United's 3-2 loss to Borussia Dortmund in July and believes somebody should have warned the shot-stopper against acting like that.
'I’m well aware of Onana being demonstrative at all his clubs, and I like the fact he communicates,' tweeted Carragher.
'But to carry on like that in a pre season game when you’ve been at the club two mins, to the club captain, was way over the top.
'Any player worth their salt (Keane, Vidic, Rio, Stam…and me!) would have told him where to go & to get back in his goal.
'I felt he was trying far too hard to show the fans what he was about. The point was Maguire is that broken he didn’t say anything back. When he was well within his rights to do so,' he added.
The incident at the time was celebrated by a host of United supporters who believe Onana's disciplinarian approach is what's needed to wake up Erik ten Hag's defence.
United boss Ten Hag evidently knew what type of character Onana was after previously working together at Ajax and deciding to sanction his £47m summer move from Inter Milan.
However, Maguire looked low on confidence when he came in to the fray during United's recent 3-1 defeat against Arsenal that saw Onana initially change his build-up play when the former Leicester defender came on.
Carragher believes former United captains would have ran to the defence of Maguire and told new recruit Onana to get back in goal and show some respect to players who have been at the club longer than him.