When you are decorated with the epithet of the most expensive defender in the history of football, as is the case with the close-to-90,000,000-euros-paid Harry Maguire and when you receive the captain’s armband of Manchester United, then you have the responsibility to be consistent week in week out, to maintain a high level of play, to be an example to the rest of the team.However, in the three years he has been at Old Trafford, Maguire has been the subject of criticism and ridicule more often than giving great performances. Surely there were some, but incomparably less compared to those in which he would reward his rivals with clear shots and points with his mistakes. Even long video compilations with collected works have appeared on YouTube, not to mention the nonsense and glitches of the sweeper.Maguire has lost every game this season he’s started for club and country The Art of Failure pic.twitter.com/zhEI7RTzfm— 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚢 (@vandebackk) September 23, 2022 Maguire opened the season as United’s starter, the Red Devils lost 2-1 against Brighton, then Brentford outclassed them 4-0 and Erik Ten Hag moved him to the bench. That was six weeks ago and since then the famous Manchester club have won each of their four Premier League games. Whether the 180-degree turn in the game has anything to do with Maguire is up to you to decide.Be that as it may, last night, regardless of the fact that he played only 170 minutes of competitive football in the past month and a half, Maguire found himself in England’s starting line-up in the 5th round of the Nations League against Italy. He was not to blame for the goal that the Three Lions conceded, but his team lost and will play in the B division of the aforementioned competition next season. Once again, as if automatically, criticism began to be directed at the former defender of Leicester.”I’m not focused on anything else, especially not on what people are talking about. Whenever they can, people will make a story about me, I’m the captain of Manchester United, so it’s always big news. That’s why they do it, they like the clicks, but I played the European Championship after an eight-week break due to injury. I hadn’t played a single game in the period before that, but I still got into the team. So I’m not going to get rusty,” Maguire said.Regardless of the small number of minutes this season, the England representative claims he has no problems with his form.”I feel good, I’m ready to play, I feel fresh. On account of my form, I don’t know what’s been said, I don’t read too much into that stuff. I’ve come off three positive games with England this summer, had a good half-season, felt I’m doing very well. Obviously, the coach (Erik Ten Hag prim. out.) decided to leave me out and the team started to win.”Until the opportunity presents itself to try to break up United’s newly formed stopper tandem of Raphael Varane – Lisandro Martinez, Maguire knows what to do.”I’m working hard in training to be ready when the opportunity arises. It’s all I can do to help the team,” the United defender concluded.##NAJAVA_MECA_6667320##
