For all the bad things that have happened to Manchester United in recent years, he was the "on-call culprit", someone who went through unprecedented pressure from the stands, from the media and especially on social networks... Someone who was at the exit door of "Old Trafford" this summer.
During that time, only England manager Gareth Southgate seems to have believed in him, and then Harry Maguire when he was written off by everyone else - in the red shirt, on the night everyone cried for the great Bobby Charlton - and at the "Theatre of Dreams". showed how strong he is.
More precisely, his goal last night for the first victory of the "Devils" in the Champions League (against Copenhagen 1:0) was just a continuation of the good games of late whenever he got a chance from Erik ten Haag.
The fact that Manchester United won 16 of the last 17 matches when Maguire was in the starting line-up explains everything best - when the staunch stopper is on the field, the "devils" win.
"I'm really proud of the way I've behaved over the last year. Now I've got the chance and I just want to help get this club back to where it needs to be," Maguire said after the Copenhagen match.
United's statistics when Maguire was not in the team are also interesting - 43 games, 22 wins.
"You have to give him credit after receiving nothing but criticism and mental abuse over the past 12 months. He played a really big game," said Manchester United legend Paul Scholes.
"Theatre of Dreams" now finally knows that it has a top stopper, the one whom the rest of England and the planet got to know well in the jersey of the national team, which he led to the semi-finals of the World Cup and the final of the European Championship.
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