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The idea of this transfer was replacing Young, Rojo, and Smalling who weren't good enough for us. Ole has to replace them with a better player with a physically and mentally strong in english football, but the option was really short in the market. It's not his fault when we bought them overpriced, because Woodward and his team did the negotiation.Signing AWB and Maguire still doesn't look like it's going to be much of a boon in the long term.
He couldn't make a gamble to buy promising young defenders due to lack of leadership in our defense, and most of them are injury prone. Klopp actually did the same thing with VVD and had been very consistent for them before his injury. The problem is no one like VVD in the mid-table premiere league clubs at the time, so signing Maguire and AWB was still a good choice to build a team in the long term. Maybe Maguire and AWB are not world class, but they can fill the gap to steady our defense until we get the time to invest on world class defenders. Or they might improving when they have competitors on their position with the same/higher quality.