Harry Maguire (Out): Chelsea eyeing a shock swoop for Harry Maguire | Utd say not for sale
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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Realistically, we should all be hoping Chelsea sign Fofana. It’ll leave Leicester with a big pot of money and not a lot of time to get a replacement. I can see them offering £50m to get Maguire which would be a great result.
This is more realistic than him going to Chelsea this window or any window to be honest.
If Chelsea get desperate and offer 50m say, I'd sell them Maguire even if that means we play with Varane, Martinez, Jones, Lindelof and Tuanzebe.
So, does he still think he is a top player?
Very unlikely
This is not a bad plan at all.
We just need to find a way to get them secret money or something. The people at Chelsea don’t want him to have to walk around with the tag “most expensive defender in the world” at age 21, or this would already be done.
On the flip side, if you take inflation into account, they would have to buy him for like 110 for that title to be true. We are about to offer 60m for Anthony Gordon. The market is changing. I can see 80 m for a top prospect being considered “cheap” as early as next year.
The problem is LC want that “world record” tag. They want to parade it around like a head on a pike.
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Please Leicester, you know you want to keep Fofana for at least another year 
There is a lot of news about there being no news on this one.
They're just giving Leicester the impression they could walk away from the Fofana deal, I'm sure, but let's see
I’d have mixed feelings if he was transferred to Chelsea.
I’d feel jubilant that the fridge has left us, but I’d also feel ecstasy that we received money for him.
I’d feel jubilant that the fridge has left us, but I’d also feel ecstasy that we received money for him.
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Seems that the fofana deal won’t go through now, so I’m not sure this is as dead as it seems.
If we did sell him that potentially could be unexpected funds we get that might mean a last push for fdj
If we did sell him that potentially could be unexpected funds we get that might mean a last push for fdj
Maguire is like the anti-Ronaldinho when it comes to YouTube comps: with Ronaldinho, you can find comps showing his outrageous skills, all unique, all from different matches. With Maguire, it's the same, only it's his feck-ups. Captain meme-tastic.
Tragic signing.
I have thought long and hard about this and think if the opportunity arises, we should sell him. Yes - we would be a little short in cover but we can keep Tuanzebe (and have Jones) and can try to find a backup CB from somewhere in the winter window. Chelsea are desperate and we won’t get another opportunity to sell him
Chelsea pairing Maguire with Koulibaly would be absolute comedy. Their line will drop so deep.
Sell Maguire, bite chelsea's hand off and re invest it in someone like Nikola Milenković
Can we afford to lose another CB?
Doesn't seem likely but it would be great to get rid of him.
Doesn't seem likely but it would be great to get rid of him.
This is going to happen
I would be really surprised if it did happen. The consensus is that Chelsea will buy Fofana from Leicester & I can't see even Chelsea affording both.
I would rather we give some kid in the academy a chance at CB than play this overpriced refrigerator another minute.
The same old problem exists with Harry in that most Premier league clubs cannot afford Man Utd type wages.
Leicester have made some poor decisions lately but signing Harry for 50m would be the Fcuk Up of the century.
It would, but you're about to be £80m+ richer, so £50m for Harry and some change for his wages too.
We take harry & you give us 25m.. Maybe !!
I know. I understand those feelings like when I broke up with my ex.
I was so happy that I left her but I also felt so happy that my money is mine now. So mixed feelings.
We owe St Etienne 16 mil as part of the sell on fee. 20% of the profit !!It would, but you're about to be £80m+ richer, so £50m for Harry and some change for his wages too.
got that wrong. around 10 mill
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Sell him to Chelsea and sign Kounde on a free on Sep 1.
Shouldn’t be hard to have some young CB’s lined up to go in for if our scouting dept is worth a feck at all
We should chop their hands off for 50m.
I highly doubt anyone out there is dumb enough to take him off our hands.
A January loan for him after he spends the next 10 games on the bench posting on Instagram.
Don’t be surprised to to see McT show up as a backup CB. ETH, like all those who came before him, likes McTominay despite what his eyes should be telling him. The guys attitude seems good so if we sign another midfielder I could see him being used at CB before I could see him being sold.
Clean break might do harry good ,he's not a bad defender just well out of sorts here and the reset would do him the world of good I think.
Yeah, this is how I feel. He is not a bad player, but he is in the worst moment of his career with us and his confidence is totally gone. He knows he doesn't have the trust or respect of a large part of United's fanbase and has become intrinsically linked with the club's recent struggles.
His price tag and the way he was bought, his ever declining form on the pitch (which is magnified because of his cost and his perceived status in the United and England teams), the constant chain of avoidable errors, the terrible media appearances and posts... everything has gone wrong for him; some of it his fault, some not. I think it is irrecoverable now though and seeing Varane and Martinez play so well together on Monday night was probably one of the final nails in the coffin for him.
I doubt he leaves this window unless someone throws big money at us but I see the captaincy being quietly moved onto someone else by way of Harry spending a lot of games on the bench before he ulimately goes next summer.
Yeah, probably true.
It's the old United problem, though: we paid a fortune for him and he's on huge (relatively speaking) wages.
That said, we hardly have depth enough to comfortably let him go. A cynical person might say that our CB pair from the Liverpool game consisted of a midget and a crock.
(I would only partly agree with that cynical person, mind - as I don't think the midget thing is too worrying if the player is ultimately good enough, which he could be: I like him. But Varane is a crock - it would be insane to rely on him not being that.)
Yes if we reinvest in Gakpo and a RB/GK
Maguire will look much better in Chelsea back 3 if it happens which I don't think it will.
He just doesn't suit a back 4.
He just doesn't suit a back 4.
I hope Fofana's move fails..
We should entertain anything around £30m for MagPudding.
We should entertain anything around £30m for MagPudding.
Selling Maguire for €50m would be our best sale ever. Better than Lukaku or De Maria
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