West Ham bid for Maguire

Originally Posted by atticusgrinch

Brilliant.

Originally Posted by westcoastvan

His agent asking for £15 million payout sounds like negotiating leverage to me. I read that West Ham was offering a 4 year contract, but he only has three years left on his United contract.

There is about a £4 mill gap that needs to bridged between Maguire and the club.

United £190,000 per week (Approx) £9,120,000 per year = £27,360,000 3 years remaining
West Ham £120,000 per week £5,760,000 per year =£17,280,000 3 years
That’s £10,080,000 loss for Maguire, United offered a £6,000,000 buy out, but that still puts him out £4 mill.

He may want to play for the National team, but how many people on this forum would walk away from £4 m, …he’s got two kids, and he’ll be 31 in March so…

Won't somebody plllllleeeeeeeease think about the children???

Originally Posted by westcoastvan

His agent asking for £15 million payout sounds like negotiating leverage to me. I read that West Ham was offering a 4 year contract, but he only has three years left on his United contract.

There is about a £4 mill gap that needs to bridged between Maguire and the club.

United £190,000 per week (Approx) £9,120,000 per year = £27,360,000 3 years remaining
West Ham £120,000 per week £5,760,000 per year =£17,280,000 3 years
That’s £10,080,000 loss for Maguire, United offered a £6,000,000 buy out, but that still puts him out £4 mill.

He may want to play for the National team, but how many people on this forum would walk away from £4 m, …he’s got two kids, and he’ll be 31 in March so…

he's under absolutely no obligation to go, but if he wants to stay and sit on the bench every week thats up to him.

No point getting angry with him, it's yet again the club throwing around huge contracts to players who've failed to live up to their massive price tags.

We signed up to pay him £8m a year, or whatever, guaranteed for the length of his contract, now we're trying to get him to £#%&! off somewhere to be paid less and cancel the contract. He's well within his rights to demand the whole lot tbh.

He's so desperate to play that he won't leave until he gets wages he's not even played for. £#%&!er.

Surely if you want a career, and you're still going to get handsomely paid, why stay and risk a new club just for the cash? Already mega rich ffs

‘Hi Harry, erm.. I know we said we’d pay you £250k a week for 6 years, well.. turns out you’re shit and we don’t want to pay you anymore, or even have you skulking around quite frankly. Do us a favour and join this vastly inferior club on less than half the wages and we’ll just forget the 3 years on your current contract that we promised to pay you for.. sound good?’

Originally Posted by naes_sean

Won't somebody plllllleeeeeeeease think about the children???

Realistically though, if he chooses to stay (which he probably will, if he doesn't get the buyout he wants)

I think he could care less if the fans boo him everytime he's on the field, if it means pocketing an extra £4 mill near the twilight years of his career.

It's not his fault he was given a lengthy lucrative contract.

Besides if the pressure becomes too much he could always pull a Phil Jones ....though I think he'll probably leave at some point.

Originally Posted by naes_sean

Won't somebody plllllleeeeeeeease think about the children???

Originally Posted by westcoastvan

Realistically though, if he chooses to stay (which he probably will, if he doesn't get the buyout he wants)

I think he could care less if the fans boo him everytime he's on the field, if it means pocketing an extra £4 mill near the twilight years of his career.

It's not his fault he was given a lengthy lucrative contract.

Besides if the pressure becomes too much he could always pull a Phil Jones ....though I think he'll probably leave at some point.

couldn't care less.

Originally Posted by dunk

‘Hi Harry, erm.. I know we said we’d pay you £250k a week for 6 years, well.. turns out you’re shit and we don’t want to pay you anymore, or even have you skulking around quite frankly. Do us a favour and join this vastly inferior club on less than half the wages and we’ll just forget the 3 years on your current contract that we promised to pay you for.. sound good?’

Say he digs his heels in and stays, West Ham move onto someone else and nobody else is interested. He's sitting at United doing £#%&! all, England don't call him up and when his United contract ends, he'll look as attractive as Phil Jones did. Is it worth the money? Surely you want to be on the pitch, proving everyone wrong - or is he simply arsed about the cash? You make it sound like it's B and Q that are offering a job and not another Premier League club.

Given that most people on here do not attend games, do you boo him from your sofa?

Originally Posted by Travis Bickle

Given that most people on here do not attend games, do you boo him from your sofa?

I do.

Some head on the @#%&!

Originally Posted by Travis Bickle

Given that most people on here do not attend games, do you boo him from your sofa?

#notonepenny etc

Originally Posted by Jack Duckworth

Some head on the @#%&!

We have long known that, though

Has the club been giving this bridge troll too much encouragement. Lots of talk from ETH that he’s happy to have him around. Surely if he’d been told he’s surplus, he’d want to go. Suspect him and The Scottish Player are for sale at the right price, but we’re also happy to keep them.

Or Maybe we have said all of that to him and he’s just not getting it.



“Ok, Harry. when West Ham call, you say ‘yes’, got it?”

Originally Posted by dunk

We signed up to pay him £8m a year, or whatever, guaranteed for the length of his contract, now we're trying to get him to £#%&! off somewhere to be paid less and cancel the contract. He's well within his rights to demand the whole lot tbh.

He is. And the club is well within its rights to not play him and ruin his short career. So that's our leverage. But unfortunately ETH has seemingly weakened it to the point where Maguire explicitly references the fact that he will get enough opportunities as a reason to turn down WHU.

On ETH this. Obviously happy to have him as back up and has consistently said he’s got a place if he shows form.

Originally Posted by dunk

We signed up to pay him £8m a year, or whatever, guaranteed for the length of his contract, now we're trying to get him to £#%&! off somewhere to be paid less and cancel the contract. He's well within his rights to demand the whole lot tbh.

he's hardly out delivering the free papers.

where's a man's pride in all this?