We paid £80m. I know his stock has fallen in recent times but he is not a bad player. One of the first names on England team sheets after Kane/Sterling and we shouldn’t be giving him away just because we want him out.
Who on earth is paying that for him
Big Daddy Moyseh
Yeah people have lost their minds thinking we’ll get that when you factor in form, age, wages etc.
Yeah exactly
let's see if West Ham has a good DOF to stop him.
The market has lost its mind when you're paying over 100m for Declan Rice. It seems these days you need to cough up at least 30m for any old shitter. Maguire as much as he doesn't fit our team will be extremely useful for teams that play a different way, he has good value and I'd be disappointed if we didn't get at least 45m.
The man is a walking meme he has next to zero value.
Because he gets exposed due to how we play. If we played like West Ham people would be singing his praises for sure. This is why he came to United for 80m. We didn't pay that for nothing, as disgustingly shite our recruitment is, there was a small amount of logic behind the huge fee.
That photo looks like a screenshot of a FIFA cinematic. Serious uncanny valley vibes.
No one can overpower Moyseh
The market is crazy but so is your opinion. I've asked this question a few times in this thread but no one has provided me with an answer. Maybe you can try.
I really don’t disagree with you - Maguire can be an asset for the right team/set up and the market is bonkers but outside of the top 4/6 - I doubt anyone is paying circa £200k per week in wages. And that’s for a 30 year old. Let’s face it, it’s highly unlikely any of the other top 6 clubs will come in for maguire. So in your scenario, we’d get 40-45m and we’d still need to compensate 10m of those to maguire for his wage differential. So in the end, we’re not netting more than 30m or so for him. That’s at the upper end imo.
We fecked it up though.
Even simpler than that: no CB who is 30 or more has ever gone for above 30 million.
Valid point, it doesn't happen.
He's in England because of some coincidentally aligning circumstances. Not because he's that good
Why would the buying team be paying the 10m? The selling team would be paying it.
I know mate. I've asked my question to a few different posters. Pretty much all of them have ignored me. I think when they read it and look for an answer, they realize their own stupidity so don't bother with a reply.
The fact that he starts for England is irrelevant in my view. I see this argument a lot in the Fred thread too.
You are confusing things, an agreement between clubs has nothing to do with the player, that comes after.
£50m is absolutely mental and obviously not going to happen. He's 30, on over £200k a week, has been an irregular player for the past year and no big clubs are interested - who is paying anywhere near £50m? We'd do well to get £30m. I'd have taken the £20-25m and ran.
Exactly! I do not know where people get the feeling we can sell him for 50 mio.? He is not a starter since a year, he did play some games and in most of these he was rubbish. In my opinion, we should have sold him for the first offer of 20 mio. by West Ham considering his age, huge salary and form. No club is ready to pay for him an insane amount of money (even though he is an England international as usually the prices are automatically higher for English players) and we would be stuck with someone on the bench earning tons of money, even in the pecking order behind Evans.
“Something” isn’t worth the salary he is making and transfer proceeds we would be forfeiting.
If you believe that players agents are not discussing their clients with other clubs prior to the club submitting bids to the selling club, you are very much not in touch with reality!
