Not a fan of sunday news, but this is interesting, not to mention a logical thing to do.
Maguire | he stays!
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What are we desperate for? Our backline needs improving but we've conceded less goals than the likes of Brentford and Fulham and only one less than Spurs and Brighton.
Would've taken Maguire two years ago but he's lost plenty lately and just looks cumbersome now.
I would say if the deal is right likes of Everton, West Ham and Leicester would need him more with all their backline issues. He'd also do well in Serie A as that seems a rehabilitation league for Man. United squad players who've lost their way.
Anything less than 50 would be a terrible sale. He’s kind of the defender version of Lukaku, he might not be your cup of tea but there’s a lot of clubs out there who fancy it.
Aston Villa is a massive club as well, but I hope Maguire will get time there.
Can see Villa paying £15-20m unless there's a second team interested and a bidding war erupts.
With us looking to offload it's not like playing hardball would be a great move on our part.
With us looking to offload it's not like playing hardball would be a great move on our part.
I think it might be loan with obligation to buy if true
He’s easily worth double that.
Lichfield is pretty close to Bodymoor Heath.
What teams can he join then? He's banned from Greece for example.
Varane/Martinez/Lindelof/Shaw/Jones/Casemiro/McTominay can all play CB. I'd say we have enough cover to get rid.
I'm hearing unconfirmed reports that some football clubs exist outside of Greece.
Who said that? BBC Sport's Alan Shearer?
Irrespective of his player quality, there is a bit of a risk here — we’ll be left with 3 (4 if you count Shaw I guess) CBs with a lot of football still to cram in this season. You can add Casemiro in there if you really want but then you’ve got the same sort of shortage in midfield.
It is weird how we’ve gone from being so bloated to having quite a thin squad in the last year or two
It is weird how we’ve gone from being so bloated to having quite a thin squad in the last year or two
We could recall Bailly before he he gets imprisoned for murdering someone
Could be good for both parties although we're placing a lot of faith in Varane staying fit. Having said that, Shaw, Casemiro and even Mctom can do a job if an injury crisis hits.
Bruno as the new captain is pretty nice
Bruno as the new captain is pretty nice
Howard Nurse probably has a scoop about the imminent founding of Notts County.
As others have said he’s needed as back up here, I’d rather he stayed until the summer. However, if someone daft comes in offering £40-£50m then it might be best to sell now.
Its a question of tactics. If you put Maguire in a team that defends deep, or has a very defensive set up like Southgate's England, he looks good.
How many teams that can afford him at £50m play like that though? Villa has got money. Although, with Maguire, its very much a buyer's market. None of the other clubs with money will be jumping into this two footed.
I'd take half of £50m, no questions asked, if we can get it.
I call BS
We won't be letting a centre back go with our schedule.
Unless ETH has been told he can get another one with the money
Sounds like bollocks.
That's one way to get the fear factor back Teden Mengi's injury against Betis wasn't as bad as they thought at the start too (according to news 3 weeks ago) so he might be back before the end of the season!
We have Tuanzebe too. For 5th choice defender he is good enough.
I love ETH. He is best thing happened to this club in last 10 years. But regarding Maguire he is wrong. I get that he wants depth but keeping a player on huge wage for whom we can get decent fee, just for squad depth is a bad business.
I think that's a bit English bias to be honest. With the exception of Dan James we've notoriously let players go way below market value.
Transfermarkt has him at €30m which is £25m or so. Depends if we're actively offloading or someone for some reason absolutely wants him.
He definitely would at Spurs. They play a back 3 and with Romero nailed on to start he'd been competing with Tangaga, Sanchez, Dier, Lenglet and Ben Davies for one of the other two CB spots.
Perhaps Conte and Spurs fans would prefer to sign someone else but Maguire would start for them with their current squad.
If true, I reckon the Shaw experiment has convinced EtH to get rid. Let's see.
If he does join them then good luck to him, never understood the vitriol he received
I don’t think he goes in January, we don’t have enough depth
They just saw the news of him being in Birmingham and fashioned a story out of it. I kick myself everyday for not becoming a sports journalist.
Phil Jones will come back and take his spot anyway.
He was in the World Cup team of the tournament
If true ETH hasn't wasted any time in getting rid of players he really doesn't want has he 
Tend to keep that stuff to oneself, tbh.
It's because he was completely shite for extended periods of time and single-handedly caused us to concede handfuls of goals. His passing is so infuriatingly slow that it slows down the entire team, and he never makes himself available to receive a pass which stresses everyone in defence. He also has a big gormless, gowly looking head on him that looks like it's crying out for a little slapeen. Similar to Harry Kane and Phil Foden.
Surely if Utd plan on selling him, they could of used that money to invest in this transfer window,
Does this have any truth or is just being based of a random blokes/womens insta post?
I don't think I buy this story but it's probably best for all parties that he's moved on fairly promptly. I think we'll need to replace him though; Martinez, Varane and Lindelof isn't enough depth at centre half and Shaw is too valuable at left back to have him playing there regularly.
I heard rumours somewhere that Southampton wanted to possibly recall Bednarek from loan at Villa also.
Get rid now if a 35-50m bid comes in, We can use that to lunch a bid for Timber or look for a loan signing somewhere for cover.