Harry Maguire £50 mil

Originally Posted by windy waffles

Apparently Jose has dropped his plans to sign a full back so he has enough funds to sign a centre.

Jacob Harry Maguire.

Dear lord...

Watch out City! The biggest club in the world are going to over throw you!

Well, once they’ve sold some players to scrape together enough cash to buy some better ones ...but yeah, watch out!

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Watch out City! The biggest club in the world are going to over throw you!

Well, once they’ve sold some players to scrape together enough cash to buy some better ones ...but yeah, watch out!

what if he turns out as good as Rio Ferdinand?

Originally Posted by silv

what if he turns out as good as Rio Ferdinand?

I'll eat my hat.

PS pay your £3.

Originally Posted by windy waffles

I'll eat my hat.

PS pay your £3.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Watch out City! The biggest club in the world are going to over throw you!

Well, once they’ve sold some players to scrape together enough cash to buy some better ones ...but yeah, watch out!

Tbf, they dropped £50m on John Stones, Maguire was better than him at the WC..

Originally Posted by dunk

Tbf, they dropped £50m on John Stones, Maguire was better than him at the WC..

50 on Stones, 50 on walker, 58 on Laporte, 43 on the goalkeeper, 50 on Mendy...

Meanwhile the biggest club in the world can’t afford a full back as well as a centre back.

Wonderful.

Originally Posted by dunk

Tbf, they dropped £50m on John Stones, Maguire was better than him at the WC..

The thing is the Stones thing is exactly why you don't buy Maguire, he's not markedly better than we have already.
A far better help would be getting fullbacks who can actually play full back, so that the centre halves aren't constantly having to try to cover 2 positions each because a clumsy shithouse former winger has lost the ball 10 yards inside the opposition half and is now out of position.

Originally Posted by ScholesGingerSheen

he's not markedly better than we have already

ok

Originally Posted by Sparky***

50 on Stones, 50 on walker, 58 on Laporte, 43 on the goalkeeper, 50 on Mendy...

Meanwhile the biggest club in the world can’t afford a full back as well as a centre back.

Wonderful.

It's a joke mate. I've learned to accept and live with the financial constraint side of things, I hate the way we manage and utilise what we have. The budget is the budget, you don't have to piss it all away on old shite.

50 mill on a flatheaded £#%&!er

Originally Posted by ScholesGingerSheen

The thing is the Stones thing is exactly why you don't buy Maguire, he's not markedly better than we have already.
A far better help would be getting fullbacks who can actually play full back, so that the centre halves aren't constantly having to try to cover 2 positions each because a clumsy shithouse former winger has lost the ball 10 yards inside the opposition half and is now out of position.

Quite possibly.

But if they buy Maguire and £#%&! Rojo, Jones etc. off and he becomes a more reliable, solid version of Smalling while Lindelof and Bailly establish themselves allowing us to eventually ditch Smalling and let Tuanzebe come through, then it's a good move.

If we buy him, keep all the above and play him as a third CB in lieu of a proper FB or whatever then

Better £50m on him than £50m on Alderwiereld or some other CB approaching the apex of his career.

Wrong thread. Moved post.

Originally Posted by Curtis

Someone on twitter made a pretty salient point yesterday about city's approach compared to ours:

Pep spent big buying a keeper, he was shit so they spent heavy on a replacement one season later.
50 mill on Stones, he didn't pan out they way they'd hoped so they spent another 50+ on Laporte.
Navas, flopped so bought Silva.
Bought Nolito, flopped so bought Jesus.
The list goes on. All within a year or two of each other.

Meanwhile we are still playing with 30+ year old wingers as fullbacks, Smalling as a first choice and no recognized right winger.

That club's attitude toward upgrading playing staff puts United's in the shade. Despite us being technically able to outspend almost anyone and stay inside FFP, Glazer's approach doesn't seem like changing any time soon.

As I've said in another thread...Jose will be gone soon and we can get one of those magical unicorn managers who wins titles playing expansive football with Young and Valencia as full backs.

Maybe the amount of deadwood we need to shift has created a transfer black hole from which we can't escape. Players running down their contracts while telling fans how much they love the club etc. #hugs

That being said, we just gave Fellaini a new contract.

What a to do.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

As I've said in another thread...Jose will be gone soon and we can get one of those magical unicorn managers who wins titles playing expansive football with Young and Valencia as full backs.

It wasn't funny the first time you posted it.

Log off or, even better, pick me up from Westminster Abbey and take me to Moorgate.

quite enjoying the sparky/koppas beef

Originally Posted by windy waffles

It wasn't funny the first time you posted it.

Log off or, even better, pick me up from Westminster Abbey and take me to Moorgate.

What the £#%&! are you doing in London you simple @#%&! - busking?

Originally Posted by Sparky***

What the £#%&! are you doing in London you simple @#%&! - busking?

Working, pal.

I can't sing.

Originally Posted by windy waffles

It wasn't funny the first time you posted it.

Log off or, even better, pick me up from Westminster Abbey and take me to Moorgate.

Please don't bring him to Moorgate. Ta.

Originally Posted by Sapien

Please don't bring him to Moorgate. Ta.