UnrelatedPsuedo
I pity the poor fool who stinks like I do!
Maybe you have a point about Woodward because he isnt very smart when it comes to transfers but quite obviosuly they had a different idea of what they wanted for a CB (speed, strength and 1 on 1 defending) which is why they signed Saliba and Gabriel and the point really is that there were other CBs also signed by other clubs.
Context - Plenty of people including myself said on this very forum that Maguire was the wrong signing especially for the fee. There was no justification for it it was just a poor transfer. Its silly to start talking about context trying to justify it to someone who said it was wrong at the time. We could have signed a different CB with a completely different makeup in terms of the attributes. We didn’t and we paid the price. Same goes for Lindelof
We mostly agree mate. Woodward was clueless. He sauntered around like Billy big bollocks and I think justified Maguire at that fee as VvD was close to the same.
Maguire was a solid signing at the right price though. We didn’t pay the right fee. But £60m for him was 100% ‘safer’ than Saliba or Gabriel for £30 each.
Regardless, our transfers have been a mess for ages and debate over that doesn’t exist.