We need to sell. With this alleged sale still not happened, transfer funds are limited apparently. I'm not too concerned about the idea of not being able to throw obscene money about, but we are genuinely in need of a striker and should really be just negotiating with Spurs on Kane. Instead, Levy's statement of £100 million or **** off has meant we're no longer looking at that. Or anyone it seems. Hopefully Maguire will be sold, not loaned, and that covers Amrabat. It wouldn't cover Kane anyway.
Was available for £25 mill just over a season ago Newcastle United are interested in signing Georgia forward Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, 22, from Napoli for £85m. (Corriere Dello Sport - in Italian)
What do you think is an acceptable loss on maguire? Not even taking the piss ere but youd be lucky to get 40m now imho
Its not money, it's we aren't allowed. We had a £300m threshold before FFP kicked in and we have reached it in 18 months. Howe seems reluctant to let dead weight go too. Only convincing me further he will be sacked in a year
He's on a salary no one interested can match, so his fee will end up lower than that I reckon. I don't care what the loss is tbh, it's not my money and if they insist on him leaving then it needs to be low enough to move him on. People can say what they like about him, but when he did play he wasn't making all these clangers people keep saying he was, he just didn't get in the side as we've got two or three better, and when he played he wasn't used to what the defence was doing. He's a first pick centre half for England, so his fee should reflect that in the current market. Someone could get a decent centre half, cheaply. He's better than anything Spurs have got, for instance.
I agree with some of your points, in a different side I think he claims resurrect his career. He’s just not good enough Man Utd or suited to a team that plays high up the pitch. The last point however, I’m not Romero’s biggest fan but he’s a World Cup winning centre back and definitely better than Maguire
The initial figures put out by some of the press when we were purchased suggested we could blow £500m in a couple of windows (and still be inside FFP) but that then would have been us done for a few years (or getting penalised majorly). Instead our owners set out their stall that they were happy to spend a chunk each year but not to the point where we hamper ourselves in future. I'm pretty happy to be honest, in the past we've been a position where we can spend £50m a year on transfers and be sustainable and instead spend £20m, now we're talking about spending £100m+ each year (and this year we've already spent £40m+ on Gordon in Jan and £50m on Tonali but only brought in £20m-ish). I think Howe is the perfect fit for the longer build, he probably wouldn't want more then 3 or 4 players in any window stepping into the first team - I look at Chelsea recently and can't help but think it's probably ideal if we sign 1 or 2 more maximum and go into next year undercooked rather than 4+ and risk unbalancing things. Too many people see it likes it's a game of Football Manager. I'd want to keep players like Almiron, Schar, Burn, Longstaff, Willock, etc in and around the first team anyway.
He's an interesting one. Yes he's been prone to some errors in the last few years and his time at Man Utd is over but honestly I see a player that a manager like Howe would relish trying to get the best out of - is he probably better than Schar? Yes I think he probably is. I can't see us going for him mostly due to the fact that alongside Botman (and with Burn at LB) we'd have zero pace at the back but I reckon a change of scenery with a manager who is willing to play him and rely on him regularly (preferably a 6-12th placed team) and we'd see a different player. He's only 30, still got a few good years at CB behind him he just needs to be realistic about his wages though - which i suspect he will not be.
Agree with all of this. Because he's England CB he gets pulled up for every mistake he makes as though no-one else makes them. If Botman had any pace I'd have said Maguire to us was an easy win all round, I can see a Tottenham/Chelsea move making sense but reckon West Ham or the like are more likely and that he'll do very well. ps. I suspect that for the optics of the situation he'll move for £25m+ but Man Utd will be paying a chunk of his wages.
Thats probably why we are more likely to get him than the Toon. We will be more open to accepting his ridiculous wage demands than Newcastle will I wager. ffs we give them Mount and get Maguire in return lol
I'm not so sure, end of the day he's 5th choice at Utd and that includes a LB playing CB instead of him.
I wont claim to know enough about how Man Utd play to be honest, it could just be that they need their CB's to have more pace - like Man City playing someone like Walker at RCB and pushing Stones into CDM. We play a high press and a lack of pace from our CB's oddly hasn't been much of an issue this season - which I was expecting it to be. At a guess he possibly just doesn't fit their system, I'd imagine the RB is a much pacier player (they usually are). I can only say what i see with Maguire and he's always looked decent when I've seen him but that's only a handful of games a season.
