Even if he drops his salary to 150k/week, at 4 year contract, he will cost them 30m in wages. Add 30m in salary and he would cost them 60m, with 0 resale value and after he has become 30.Go get Tah then? He's not as good.
50% pay cut would be a ridiculous ask considering what you pay worse players.
30m isn't a big fee for someone like Maguire, you're just being tight. Which is fine, but let's not pretend like 20m is some sort of good deal for us.
For context, we got him when he was better, and in these 4 years he cost us 80m in transfer fee and 40m in wages so 120m. If we get 30m from him, he would have cost us 90m. While he was 4 years younger.
Now let’s be real. He is considered a unanimously terrible transfer. Getting a 4 years older version of him for 33% cheaper is also a terrible transfer. It does not make much sense from other club’s POV.
The faster we learn that he is not an asset but it is a liability the better.