Better definitely, but probably not at half the price of Maguire..
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Are all the little Leicester fans still hanging around or? Dragging this out for many weeks to then give in and settle for £80m must be deflating. 6 days left for you to find a replacement. Tick tock. £50m should get you Dunk.
If the money is no problem and he improves your team, it’s a good deal for you guys.
10 better CB's at £40m!!! Please enlighten us.
Welcome to the club Harry Maguire. Very happy with this transfer but the price was a lot. Hope this doesn't affect us bringing any additional players this window. We also have to offload a defender or 2. Im thinking Jones or Rojo. Rojo still has some use as he could play as backup to Shaw/young so Im guessing we sell Jones this window. he also has more value than Rojo to any potential english teams.
With the size of this transfer we have no more excuses in regards to our defense. We have bought him as starting material and not one for the future. 200 million on our defense alone.
With the size of this transfer we have no more excuses in regards to our defense. We have bought him as starting material and not one for the future. 200 million on our defense alone.
If Leicester do buy Dunk for £45 million after they have give Hull their cut of this £80 million, how much profit will they have actually made?. I don’t think this deal will work out as lucrative as some of their fans would like to imagine.
Hope he smashes a header against Chelsea and shuts everybody down
look at Mangala et al. Highly rated means feck all until you’re in the premier league getting drilled.
Maguire is a proven PL player that fits Ole’s profile.
It's hard to see any of those hitting the ground running in the PL straight away.
Upamecano for example has only played 88 games at club level. Maguire has played over 300 games and gone to a world cup.
We are signing Maguire to make an instant impact.
We are hoping he will be the experienced CB we are missing. We can then sign one of these young CBs and bring them into the team gradually without the pressure of being the "leader" we need from day one.
Smalling,Rojo, Jones,Bailly are on borrowed time.
Ridiculous fee. But we really, really needed something done in the CB department so it might actually not be the worst deal we'll ever make.
Due to his price tag he will be constantly compared to Van Djik. And he is nowhere near as good as Van Djik.
I thought it was comparing to his fee from last year, which was actually £88m.
That said it its a pointless comparison, 30 years ago £5m would get you Maradona, now it gets you Nick Powell.
Maguire cost them £20m and if Dunk or replacement costs £45m, that’s a total outlay of £65m with £80m incoming. £15m profit.
Maybe, but maybe they wouldn't come for the right reasons and would be off if things get difficult? I can see Maguire finish his career here if things go right and i don't mean due to injury. We'll see.I think its a very good deal all things considered.
Bottom line is he wanted to come to United and conducted himself in a professional manner, what more can you ask for? The fee I'm blaming Woody he gave it the Billy big bollox a few years ago with he's quote about "we can do things in the transfer window other clubs can only dream about"
Hull gets a chunk of that as well
Posters that criticised the VVD fee would surely have learnt a lesson by now. We'll only find out based on how he performs for us.
We’re getting rinsed. But we need him.
Even better if we now finally get rid of Rojo.
Even better if we now finally get rid of Rojo.
how? even without that quote its not a well kept secret that united is one of the very richest club. This is just stating the obvious... (cant reply max 3 post)
What happens if we play Maguire and Tuanzebe together to cover eachothers weakness and have Lindelöf at DM alongside McSauce and Pogba 
Only time will prove whether this is the right move, but based on what we know Maguire is a great addition to the squad. We all know we needed an upgrade at CB and we picked up a significant upgrade who wanted the join the club.
To be fair, Maguire is what, 26? He's only just become an International and has like 20 odd caps for England. That's hardly experienced. It's not like he's some young player thats been involved with the England squad and amassed 40/50 caps.
Do agree with your general point though, we've signed him to make an immediate impact and not require a settling in period which other players from abroad may require. But lets not pretend he's some experienced international, he's only played 90minutes in the Europa League for example and has never been at a top club. We have no idea how he'll handle a high pressure environment.
A solid signing. Welcome to ManUniverse!
He's miles better than what we have currently. It's none of our money, so who cares about the fee.
Who gives a toss about the money. The team was seriously deficient last year in two key areas: defense and more importantly IMO lack of leaders who are were willing to step up and lift those around them.
This second point is more critical for me. There may have been cheaper and possibly better defenders around but the team lacks british leaders that all of United’s past league winning teams have had.
This lad has personality which he has demonstrated time and again for England and Leceister. We need players with balls and he at least has a pair which you can’t say of many of the existing personalities in the dressing room.
The defense and the team has just received a serious upgrade. We should all be bloody delighted. I certainly am!
This second point is more critical for me. There may have been cheaper and possibly better defenders around but the team lacks british leaders that all of United’s past league winning teams have had.
This lad has personality which he has demonstrated time and again for England and Leceister. We need players with balls and he at least has a pair which you can’t say of many of the existing personalities in the dressing room.
The defense and the team has just received a serious upgrade. We should all be bloody delighted. I certainly am!
We'd be overrun in midfield....end ofWhat happens if we play Maguire and Tuanzebe together to cover eachothers weakness and have Lindelöf at DM alongside McSauce and Pogba
If you’re 80m desperate for a CB why would you a) give a shit one at the club a raise? b) not be desperate to sell the shit ones we have?
You can try and make an argument that we’d rather buy before we sell but Ed is clearly not following that logic with Lukaku - or at least he wasn’t until Juve decided to save his ass
You can try and make an argument that we’d rather buy before we sell but Ed is clearly not following that logic with Lukaku - or at least he wasn’t until Juve decided to save his ass
That would be a great transfer window. Although we didn't sign any of my dream transfers (De Ligt, Sancho, Felix, etc). I hope we can sign Dybala, he could be important to attract top players in the next transfer window.
Yeah, I refuse to believe there aren't better players out there who could have been got for significantly cheaper. Is being EPL proven really worth an additional £30m? I'm not so sure.
Don’t care about the fee, if we don’t but players with it it just lines others pockets. improves our defence greatly so more than happy with this. Getting a good starting 11 together now
Personally I’m delighted this is now seemingly done, I’d also make Maguire our captain as he’s a natural leader and a guaranteed starter as well as the fact there’s no other standout candidate.
Finally!!!! Let's hope he adapts quickly and we partner him with Lindelof .
https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/footba...re-prefers-man-city-to-man-united_361300.html
Boy, did they get that wrong.
Boy, did they get that wrong.
If he comes, looks like it now? He's better than we got, it's big money, it's the market now. I think he will give us more confidence to our midfield, and front men.
Oles seems to want us to keep the ball more, press more, that has to be a plus with better CB. Shaw , lindelof, Maguire, awb, not a bad back 4.
Oles seems to want us to keep the ball more, press more, that has to be a plus with better CB. Shaw , lindelof, Maguire, awb, not a bad back 4.
We needed a cb with some experience, composure, at least a hint of leadership and ability to organize a defence.
A cb that is comfortable playing on the left side of defence, has decent passing up the field, strong in the air.
Maguire seems hugely underwhelming for that price but it is hard to find another cb that ticks all the boxes like he does.
There are a bunch of young interesting cb's around, like the ones you mentioned, but they need more time to develop. Most of them are still very raw. We needed a player that can be first choice cb right from start.
Absolutely ridiculous fee. But if he's the right player then it needed to be done. We're not getting back to top by hunting for bargains and top 4 is a must this season.
PROS:
Immediately improves us
Young
British
Wanted to join us
Wont try to leave for Real
Whatever about the fee, this is a top signing.
Immediately improves us
Young
British
Wanted to join us
Wont try to leave for Real
Whatever about the fee, this is a top signing.
We bought Lindelof as a cheaper, non EPL proven CB (at a time when we could have bought Maguire for £16m) and he was a disaster in his first season and still only average at best now. There will be bargains out there somewhere but our scouts have shown they can't spot them.
£ 85M & 16 pages, 
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I hope I'm one of ones who is keeping quiet about being wrong in a couple of years time.
.I hope I'm one of ones who is keeping quiet about being wrong in a couple of years time.
That is irrelevant we couldn't possibly get Van Djik.
Am happy with this. 2 more and it's a great window.
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