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Good Craig got his c'nuppins
Great signing, immediately our best defender.
Am very happy are have gotten him. Ticks many boxes, especially as a genuine leader and with passing capability. Plus he's hard as nails and can hit the ground running.Think he’s the best defender we could have bought. Don’t get what everyone sees in Koulibaly and he would have cost us more.
Maguire is one of the best ball playing defenders in the league and is arguably the best header of the ball in the whole of the Premiership, defender or attacker. He’s a leader, he’s a good age, he’s home grown and he has scope to improve. Quality
AWB says hello. As for center half, yeah, definitely.Great signing, immediately our best defender.
Being honest, I'd be more excited by Koulibaly or De Ligt, but Maguire just feels like a good fit.
Everyone is fixated on the fact that Maguire is an improvement over all our CBs. While that is probably true, people are forgetting that he has no European experience. Like, none at all. Even VVD played in the CL for Celtic way back, and that probably helped him in his Southampton days. So the jury is still out for him. Thats why a record fee wasn't the greatest deal, like at all.
Everyone is fixated on the fact that Maguire is an improvement over all our CBs. While that is probably true, people are forgetting that he has no European experience. Like, none at all. Even VVD played in the CL for Celtic way back, and that probably helped him in his Southampton days. So the jury is still out for him. Thats why a record fee wasn't the greatest deal, like at all.
Yeah, this. Say what you want about Ed now, he’s backing our manager.Well it’s clear Ed is willing to go through a wall head first for Ole. All excuses end here...
Hopefully it's enough. Because this is the sort of fee you pay to not only get back to the top, but to continue challenging for top honours in the future. He'd better turn out WCHe's a national team player for England, he has international experience and was quite frankly great in the world cup. So there's always that, he's not a total newbie to foreign teams.
I can’t think of any defender of Maguire’s level And attributes (proven with track record, stats, etc) in the whole world who we can realistically buy THIS window. Unless we want a gamble. I wouldn’t gamble on cornerstone CB. Leicester know that we have to buy a CB this window. Our defense is a mess, its our biggest problem. They have footballing department and they analyze buyers too. Buying a player is very much like buying a company. A lot of research and strategic thinking. Plus City is in the race. Maguire will not come cheap. 80M is a minimum we can hope for.
I’m not too fussed on the fact we’ve spent the money it’s just the fact we could’ve probably found a better talent for that price that would be a much more obvious upgrade such as Koulibaly or Varane
Time to clean out some of the Leicester fans now. They've had their fun.
He is a good player but you don’t have to pay through the nose for your signings. There is a middle ground, you pay scouts and execs a lot of money to find it.Please people never complain about the fee.
You complain we don't sign players, you complain when we say there's no value in the market.
We finally splash out and now you say "OMG TOO EXPENSIVE"
he's a good player. Let's be happy.
I think the onus is on Shaw now to really prove himself this year, he’s a good full back but if he steps it up a notch it’d be the difference between a good back 4 and a great one. If he gets injured though we’re back to YoungThank God this is all but done now pending a medical!
Very good signing. The sort of CB we have been crying out for. With a backline of DDG; AWB, Lindelof, Maguire, Shaw. That is pretty solid and I like that.
Baily has just had an opp he won't be back for about 5 months. So he's going nowhere this window.With Maguire for 80mil and Tuanzebe added to our defence, surely we need to recoup by offloading Darmian, Rojo and Baily. These sales would cover at least 40m. I would rid of one of Smalling/Jones if possible. 5 Cbs will be sufficient.
Leicester fan here.... congratulations on your signing but my god that is a lot of money. The other half of my family are United fans and I have just said to them that I don't think he is as good defensively as people realise. Don't get me wrong, he is fantastic on the ball but he has his flaws.
Yeah it would be mad if he turned up to a game a day early.Meltdown when he's in the starting lineup today.
He should have done it a year ago, for a lot less, rather than deciding he isn't better than what we already had. Still, guess it's pretty much done now.Don't want to sound ungrateful but Woody should have done this deal 6 weeks ago.
We could have given him 5 games playing with his new teammates, instead, we could end up with his first game for us being against Chelsea. Justsayin'
New tooth brush sponsorship.How?
Do think we need some pace beside him if we're going to play a pressing game and squeeze a high line. Tuanzabe or Smalling ahead of Lindelof for me.
Has all the other attributes.