Harry Maguire

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Don't want him I would rather use a talent than spending 60-70 million on this slow, not so talented on the ball player. We can do much better than that.
 
flb said:
Not sure where all this crap comes from that Maguire is a paceless crap defender, hes as quick as Vinny and Otimendi and looks very composed on the ball , can tackle, big and strong, he brings the ball out excellently from defence into midfield and can pass.

If its good enough for Pep?

Would be a very good signing IMO.
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He is QUICKER than Otamendi for sure. People just like to.make things up. He is big, so they think he is slow. :(
 
willipp said:
I am already having kittens at the thought of Ederson pinging balls at him surrounded by 2 pressing forwards.

In all honesty, he is a good defender who looks good in sides where defending is probably the main thing they do. For us he would have the ball so much more than he ever has before. Vinnie at times could look troubled with the ball at his feet on the turn, or trying to step into midfield with the ball and for me Vinnie looks a much better player with the ball at his feet than maguire does.
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Maguire is quite accomplished on the ball. Where are people watching Maguire and seeing an uncomfortable player on the ball? He's on ball skills are what stands out about him.

I mean seriously, someone point me to a game where Maguire showed his slowness or uncomfortability on the ball.

Is this just some "He is a big Englishman so he must be a brute" syndrome going on here? Why are there so many with opinions that simply isn't supported by the evidence :?
 
Metalartin said:
He's good on the ball but he's also one of those defenders with a mistake in him on or off the ball every week. We already have Walker and people say it of Stones(not sure I agree), so we can't be taking any more players with that trait, especially for the asking price.

Do we need to buy home grown for the quota or something?
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Now here is a fair assessment. If it's the price (which sounds excessive, then I understand) but he is certainly a good player.
 
Dax777 said:
Now here is a fair assessment. If it's the price (which sounds excessive, then I understand) but he is certainly a good player.
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What about the mistakes/switching off? Can we afford two in the same starting 11? It can be contagious.
 
Metalartin said:
What about the mistakes/switching off? Can we afford two in the same starting 11? It can be contagious.
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I think those will be diminished in a higher possession team. By the way all our current CBs make similar errors. So he'll be in good Kompany.
 
Dax777 said:
I think those will be diminished in a higher possession team. By the way all our current CBs make similar errors. So he'll be in good Kompany.
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Not with his frequency, there's only Walker who compares to my eye. Walker would be much more of a favourite without that trait.

Laporte had that one game(which we shan't mention) but otherwise he has been very dependable. I think Stones is a lot better than he was when he first joined, so I think he's ironed most of that out of his game. Zinchenko on the ball rarely lets us down and is steadily improving defensively.

I'll obviously get behind him if we sign him and hope he can improve under Pep but I would rather we sign someone else, someone more agile, faster on the turn. The thought of Mané and Salah turning him doesn't fill me with confidence.
 
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Dax777 said:
He is QUICKER than Otamendi for sure. People just like to.make things up. He is big, so they think he is slow. :(
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People thought the same about Richard Dunne because he was a big lump too, but he was a lot quicker than people thought & vastly underrated.
 
Any other club would get him for 40-50 mill. The moment our name is mentioned it goes up 20 odd mill. Would love it if we could silently bid for players.
 
As he plays on the left side of the centre backs, there is no way that he’s better than Laporte. Spoken with some LCFC fans who live locally to me who rate him but stress he hardly ever goes over to the right side which is where we want a replacement. Now unless Pep does his magic and gets another left footed player playing on the right hand side I can’t see us going after him.

TBM
 
Can there be a moratorium on calling him young? De Ligt is young, Maguire is 26.

If Otamendi and Kompany go he'll be our oldest centreback.
 
TAmmyBlueMoon said:
As he plays on the left side of the centre backs, there is no way that he’s better than Laporte. Spoken with some LCFC fans who live locally to me who rate him but stress he hardly ever goes over to the right side which is where we want a replacement. Now unless Pep does his magic and gets another left footed player playing on the right hand side I can’t see us going after him.

TBM
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He plays on the left because he’s more comfortable there but there’s nothing stopping him playing on the right (he is right footed), Otamendi plays on both and usually plays on the left when Laporte isn’t playing it’s not like it’s an entirely different position and I’m sure he’s played on the right before
 
Trautmann's Chiropractor said:
If Blackburn says Leicester want £90m then it’s true. Hope we walk away if that’s the case, he’s only worth half of that at best.

Be interesting to see what other names pop up over the next few weeks.
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Hes not worth £25m. He's a clogger who's so cumbersome and slow. It's such a downgrade going from Kompany/Otamendi to this guy
 
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