£70m?! For Harry Maguire?!?! And they rejected it?!?!?!
What the actual feck
What the actual feck
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A deal of cash plus a player wouldn't surprise me tbh.
This is true, De Ligt is slow which really put me off him. I like my CBs to have recovery pace.He is slow, but I'd say he's not much quicker or slower than Di Ligt is, any everybody wants him (Me included)
Maguire is a very good CB but I feel he needs a pacy CB next to him. Playing a highline would be quite detrimental with Maguire/Lindelof. Smalling/Bailly/Axel will probably partner him i'd imagine.
Yeah fair play if people do that, I look at stats but don't dive into them as deeply as some do on here, to much to do haha. Yeah I was the same, wanted him when he was at Udinese and again when he was at Barca, can't see us getting him off the books this summer so fingers crossed he comes good (won't hold my breath).
I actually agree on Fred, I don't see it and can't see him being good enough but will give him this season to prove me wrong.
I do realise that yes
Darmian, Bailly, Rojo, Blind, Martial, Di Maria, Mkhi, Depay and Fred all came from outside of the PL and they've all gone, or as fans we want gone, with the extent of Martial who we cling on to
Release clause or not, he isn't worth more than what we have just bid.
If we add Maguire we’d have lindelof Maguire Smalling Jones rojo bailly and tuanzebe. One needs to go. Give them a pick of rojo or Jones, I’d rather give bailly another shot.
Absolute piss-takers. Just move on.
I have to think Gary Cahill to Chelsea. Was a good move for them.
VVD was 26 (moved in Jan, turned 27 in July). Maguire is 26 and will turn 27 in March. So VVD wasn't younger but he was better.
I'm not sure that Maguire is realistically any more obtainable though is he..?
Leicester seem to be very resistant, and I may be wrong, but hasn't Maguire hinted that he wouldn't be interested in United?
Or let me put it another way, I don't think Maguire has shown anymore interest in joining United than Koulibaly has..?
It's funny, we could have got him for 60-65 if we just put up the money last summer.
Why not? Did you see Laporte last season the few times he actually had to defend - like Spurs in the Chmapions League for example? Hugely overrated defender.
Kompany did his ideal City 11 before he left, and chose wobbly John Stones to partner him ahead of Laporte; says it all.
He isn't worth the money but comparing him to signings with release clause is not a fair comparison.
And in that same time period, we've signed
Schneiderlin, Sanchez, Lukaku, Matic all from the PL. Worked out great for us too, eh.
Was Pereira not mentioned before.??
Ya that’s fair enough but I reckon £70m is a great offer and I personally would look for alternatives if that bid is indeed rejected.
The hilarious thing are those posters who kept posting "Thank feck the board didn't listen to Mourinho and bought Maguire".
Laporte is class. Kompany can say what he wants, Stones is the player sitting on the bench, not Laporte.
I’d honestly want to see the club pay £170m on a CB so I see as less of Smalling and Jones as possible.
Do the deal.
Do the deal.
I'm not saying that they aren't easily accessible. I'm saying your opinion suggests you haven't watched both play. Either way your opinion that 'he couldn't lace his boots' is a shambles so leave it there.
You've obviously seen him play, yet because I disagree with you I haven't? Get a grip.
Pains me that we want him, he's simply not that good.
We have plenty of decent-good CBs, if we're in the market it should be for an absolute standout performer. I don't personally care if we spend £40m or £80m on a CB but I care that we at least buy top quality. If he wasn't English, would we even be linked with him?
We have plenty of decent-good CBs, if we're in the market it should be for an absolute standout performer. I don't personally care if we spend £40m or £80m on a CB but I care that we at least buy top quality. If he wasn't English, would we even be linked with him?
Unfortunately Van Dyke's price of 75 mil is now the benchmark for a good defender. So McGuire wont be cheaper (75-80 mil.)
I'd argue it's yours that suggests that.
Phil Jones.
So much for the £100m budget we apparently had to spend
And you'd continue to look foolish
Yeah, I'm the one looking foolish, not the guy who rates Maguire as high as Koulibaly, uh huh, yup.And you'd continue to look foolish
70m, damn. He's not at VVDs level so you can't expect him to fetch as much but once again we are seeing English tax in play. On one hand I'm thinking fair play to Leicester for standing their ground and I would hope (as we did with Stones in the past), Everton would also do the same, but he's simply not worth big big money.
Apparently Hull have a 15% clause on him so they'd get 10.5m of that 70m. Maybe another reason Leicester are trying to squeeze out as much as possible.
Apparently Hull have a 15% clause on him so they'd get 10.5m of that 70m. Maybe another reason Leicester are trying to squeeze out as much as possible.
This means De Ligt is not coming. Time to close that thread.
Accurate.
Walk away please. No friggin way he is worth over 70M.
They turned down £70m? Madness
He wouldn't play for any top four club. Wouldn't want for half that fee.
He's decent enough but we're going to get bent over the table at that kind of price. Way too expensive.
Yeah this point I totally agree with. Bit daft we’re willing to high this summer when the deal was right there and doable last year. Just all a bit amateur from us like usual.
This never actually occurred to me until now. Absolute spanners
The Glazers just didn't want to spend last summer.
This year they will have the Pogba and Lukaku money.
He'd play for Tottenham and Chelsea
He'd also get plenty of game time at Liverpool and City I'd say, in place of Matip / Lovren and Stones
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