Maguire | he stays!

Nooooo, my sweet prince. Say it isn't so. :(

He should turn West Ham down. Top 5 Defenders in the World (TM) don't end up at West Ham. Come on Harry, say NO!
 
Sorry it has not worked out for him here , he is not as bad as many here make out but not an ETH type player and good enough for a team with title aspirations and currently going through a crisis of confidence.

Another loss on a big signing ,but best decision for all parties.

Hopefully he can get his career back on track with the hammers and if he does then for 30M they will have got a very good deal on a decent player.
 
You see when posters kept saying they wanted West Ham to go down earlier this year and I was saying we need them to stay up for our car boot sale. This is it. They have always looked the best PL fit for most of our dead wood. They need to come back in for Scott now and their work will be done.
 
Quotes from West Ham fans:

Can’t wait to sell him in two years for $10m
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Sell? I think you mean pay him to feck off
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30m for a 30 year old fridge. When Moyes is sacked by christmas the next manager will have to get rid of Maguire anyway. Such a bad use of the Rice funds.
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It genuinely hurts my soul that football is starting again
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Please reject us Harry
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Was trying to stay postive, but after the news about Paqueta and the likely signing off Maguire I’m struggling.

Looks like signing Maguire will move us to 5 at the back, and if we do loose Paqueta we will lose the creativity from midfield. The football next year could be shocking, sitting back massively and lumping it to Antonio
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Waking up to us overpaying heavily for Maguire and potentially losing our Brazilian star to fecking City. Put me back to sleep
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Well time to delete some tweets See you lads in 9 hours
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Personal terms though, he has to take a massive pay cut and play for a "small team" like us, theres still hope
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FFS. Anyone want two good season tickets?
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Rough morning...
 
Revan said:
Neither of them is better than Paquetta or Antonio. But they would be some of their best players. I do not rate either of them at all, but I think that Maguire is going to be their best defender.
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Antonio? Both are comfortably better Micahail Antonio.. at least based on last season.
 
Not over the moon, but content. The fee seems quite low, hope West Ham compensate for the salary difference somehow.

If we can get Todibo for a similar price, a player with more potential, less wages and more fitted to EtH's tactics, that's good business. Maguire being 30 years helps, didnt realise that.

His worth will soon deteriorate.
 
Good news for everyone.

Maguire not half as bad as people have made out, but clearly not suited to the football the manager wants to play. Forgetting the inhospitable atmosphere the thick end of our fan base attempted to conspire, he's a player on too much money who holds too much ambition to play fifth or sixth fiddle.

Great value for West Ham and another question mark scrubbed off for us.

Good luck to Maguire. I'm sure we all wished it had worked out better.
 
AjaxCunian said:
Not over the moon, but content. The fee seems quite low, hope West Ham compensate for the salary difference somehow.

If we can get Todibo for a similar price, a player with more potential, less wages and more fitted to EtH's tactics, that's good business. Maguire being 30 years helps, didnt realise that.

His worth will soon deteriorate.
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Soon? He's about 10 more appearances away from being given away on a free. He can't keep making the mistakes he's making and for us to expect to get a fee for him.
 
With his depreciation he is only worth £34m on our books so at £30m it is only a slight loss. Also saving £9.5m in wages a year for another 3 years is great.
 
Moyes doesn’t play the same style as ETH so I imagine he’ll look better in a West Ham team. Maguire is just really unsuited to an ETH team.

I‘ve said it before somewhere else but to try and use Cricket as an analogy, Maguire in this Utd/ETH team is like putting 1970s Geoffrey Boycott in the current day England cricket team who play Bazball. Boycott would look terrible in it and would stick out like a sore thumb but the system doesn’t suit his strengths, which wouldn’t mean he’s a bad cricketer… just like Maguire isn’t necessarily a bad defender.
 
Just was never right for us, yes his first season was good and looked to be worth the 80mil we paid but had been pretty bad since. He is more suited to a team like WHU and will preserve his England status while there. All the boos and crap he took was justified to an extent, some of it way over the top. He deserves another chance at some other club, with him being 30 and us building for the future, it was always going to come to this. Thank you Harry for that first season and best of luck.
 
Good move for maguire, he will do a job for them. He still has something to offer, just not for us.
 
Pathetic fee reflects how low he has sunk, but I'm happy to see Maguire get a chance to rebuild his career and stop being a meme. Think he will do well for Moyes
 
West Ham fans don’t seem ecstatic with this transfer, for some reason
 
Annihilate Now! said:
Doubt they'll be this unhappy when he's one of their best players
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Yeah I agree, but they seem to think they're a team that's capable of playing some kind of free flowing football and Maguire goes against the "West Ham way", whatever the feck that is.

He'll improve them and the improve the way Moyes likes to play, as long as he goes back to no nonsense defending and less of the cleaver shit that he can't do.
 
Great news. Unlike some I have no hate for the guy, but it just makes no sense to have him in the squad. You don't need two backup centre backs both entering their 30s. Better to have one older that can provide experience and a younger prospect who has a shot at becoming a first teamer in a season or two when they've developed.

Plus of course there's a bit of a circus surrounding Maguire that we could do without, even though he's never been a problem in public.
 
Good bit of business to get £30m and shift his wages. He won't be missed at all, but at the same time I feel he'll probably be pretty good for West Ham. Moyesball will be much more suited to his talents.
 
He will do well in West Ham. Not good enough for us in the way we wants to play, but more than good enough for a midtable team fighting for Conference. Will do him wonders not to be under the pressure his been under the last years to.

Wish him good luck, and glad it seems like we moved on.
 
Tiber said:
Pathetic fee reflects how low he has sunk, but I'm happy to see Maguire get a chance to rebuild his career and stop being a meme. Think he will do well for Moyes
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It is not though. It is the highest ever fee for a CB who is 30 years old or more. Just cause we overpaid Leicester by 30-40m when he was 26 (and actually good), doesn't mean that 30m is a pathetic fee. Raphael fecking Varane after winning a World Cup, 4 UCL, being likely a top 3 CB in the world, at 28 years old actually cost 34m.
 
Herman Toothrot said:
Good news for everyone.

Maguire not half as bad as people have made out, but clearly not suited to the football the manager wants to play. Forgetting the inhospitable atmosphere the thick end of our fan base attempted to conspire, he's a player on too much money who holds too much ambition to play fifth or sixth fiddle.

Great value for West Ham and another question mark scrubbed off for us.

Good luck to Maguire. I'm sure we all wished it had worked out better.
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This. New club he will be better. If you go back to his 1st season at united he played well.
 
Revan said:
It is not though. It is the highest ever fee for a CB who is 30 years old or more. Just cause we overpaid Leicester by 30-40m when he was 26 (and actually good), doesn't mean that 30m is a pathetic fee. Raphael fecking Varane after winning a World Cup, 4 UCL, being likely a top 3 CB in the world, at 28 years old actually cost 34m.
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Koulibaly last season?


Having said that it's a very good deal for us.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
Doubt they'll be this unhappy when he's one of their best players
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I think that's their issue. If they are selling off their better players, including Paqueta - one of their more exciting players, they could end up playing a more defensive, conversative, 'worse' style of football. It's a downgrade on the rest of the squad that concerns them.

Curious to see what happens with them for the rest of the window. If Paqueta does go for a big fee, I wonder who exactly they're targeting to redevelop the squad. This is already coming off a bad season. Could be a really, really difficult season for them if they don't reinvest that money wisely.
 
I'll be the first to say it - He'll be player of the year at West Ham this season. Confidence is a huge factor in a playe. Look at him for England - he's dominant. If the WH fans can get behind him, he'll be their best defender since the last one (sorry for my limited knowledge of WH centre backs).
Good luck to him for fecks sake - too many haters on this forum. We all wanted him 3 years ago. Fickle feckers in the cafe as usual.
 
Superunknown said:
I think that's their issue. If they are selling off their better players, including Paqueta - one of their more exciting players, they could end up playing a more defensive, conversative, 'worse' style of football. It's a downgrade on the rest of the squad that concerns them.

Curious to see what happens with them for the rest of the window. If Paqueta does go for a big fee, I wonder who exactly they're targeting to redevelop the squad. This is already coming off a bad season. Could be a really, really difficult season for them if they don't reinvest that money wisely.
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Have they ever played 'good' football?
 
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