soapythecat
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I do hope so palIt won’t be our concern because he’ll be pulling on a shirt for another club.
I do hope so palIt won’t be our concern because he’ll be pulling on a shirt for another club.
Me too. I dont think Maguire is the player we thought we were buying but I wouldnt boo him should he play againI do hope so pal
So whichever way we look at it, he IS a leech.He's 30, which is often not too old for a center-back, and even then old players often see out their contracts and move to other clubs on a lesser contract on a free. If what you're saying is true, it makes even more sense for him to not move on unless he's paid the difference of his new pay-cut contract. This is his last payday by that logic.
A is wrong. £3m is the breakeven point for Maguire if we weren't purchasing a replacement. (-£26m book value writedown offset by £10m wage savings + £13m amortization savings)Yes, because usually a player moves to his next club at a higher wage and his projected earnings for the next few years increase, unless they're at the twilight of their careers, so they have no reason to ask for the rest of their contract value. In the case of United and the stupid wages we offer players, that's rarely the case. No club wants to pay our players the money we put on contract for them, which means a lot of our transfers in recent years either a) gives a discount to the buying club so that they raise the player's wages or b) give the player a pay out as persuasion to move.
We can't do (a) - because to reflect an FFP profit on him for the year, Maguire has to be sold for 30 mil plus. Honestly (b) is tough for us too. So we quietly suffer giving players stupid overinflated contracts, like we should, a bad business.
Last shirt I saw him in had 'smoking kills' in French on it, it's a designer label though not a public service announcement. Not looking forward to seeing the fallout there, very uncomfortable.It won’t be our concern because he’ll be pulling on a shirt for another club.