Ekeke
Full Member
You can't just judge on wages alone. What matters is total cost of the player: wages + fee. Maguire has been with us so long there's no wage to amortize any more, which makes his overall cost very reasonable, even if kept at 190k.
It sounds like we may have gotten 150k or so, which I'd say is team friendly. 100k a week is like average PL starter at this point. No way you're signing him for that on a free without a big signing on bonus.
£150k would still be ahead of our first choice CB. Lisandro has been on £120k since he signed. de Ligt obviously came in around the same as Maguire.
Now obviously Lisandro himself has his own problems. None of Maguire, Lisandro or de Ligt have been available enough this season although Maguire has played the most mins of them so far. But the point is £120k is considered fine for a big signing CB coming in as first choice as Lisandro has been - yet Maguire was on £190k and even if hes on 150k its still significantly more than the 120k of a new first choice CB. So no its not okay its still far overpaid and I dont think any of our rivals would have Maguire on that after having him stay all that time on superstar wages after a failed megamoney move.
Again he is a decent CB. He's not worse than Lisandro or de Ligt, they're all about the same level just have different styles. But being around as good as 2 other CBs in the 11th best defensive record team shouldn't reward you with 150k per week. Only a club who usually make poor financial decisions would do that.
