PedroMendez
Acolyte
From a clubs perspective costs matter, because the budget is limited. There are opportunity costs for every transfer.
For a world record fee, you want a top class player. I doubt that Maguire has that quality. The Maguire transfer is bad when I think about opportunity costs, but at least he is good enough to be a starting CB for a top4 team.
James is a very good transfer and nobody argues otherwise.
I think the biggest issue is with AWB. Every discussion about him is already mentioning his lack of quality going forward. United can't just replace him due to price tag and problems in different areas. Hopefully he will improve because otherwise united is stuck with a weak link for years.
Think about Luke shaw: despite failing to show consistent performances for years, united had to keep him as starting lb (at least on paper). You can't just sell&replace expensive signings. Same with Fred or one of the other underperformers.
For a world record fee, you want a top class player. I doubt that Maguire has that quality. The Maguire transfer is bad when I think about opportunity costs, but at least he is good enough to be a starting CB for a top4 team.
James is a very good transfer and nobody argues otherwise.
I think the biggest issue is with AWB. Every discussion about him is already mentioning his lack of quality going forward. United can't just replace him due to price tag and problems in different areas. Hopefully he will improve because otherwise united is stuck with a weak link for years.
Think about Luke shaw: despite failing to show consistent performances for years, united had to keep him as starting lb (at least on paper). You can't just sell&replace expensive signings. Same with Fred or one of the other underperformers.
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