Harry Maguire

[Drubas]

Why do we even want him.. surely there are better, more skilled, and cheaper options. Do we really want an average English player here for 80+mill?

Does he even fit the way City plays? I'd say city dodges one, if he goes to United for £80m+.

 

[Truesilverblue]

Hopefully going to United way overrated for that kind of money.

 

[Steve68]

Why do we even want him.. surely there are better, more skilled, and cheaper options. Do we really want an average English player here for 80+mill?

The way he tore down the left against us suggests he’s not that shabby on the ball. He’s always looked pretty comfortable in England games as well. He’s certainly a huge upgrade on Smalling and Stan Laurel.

The prices being thrown around are insane but that’s how the game is. The 75mill paid for VVD is already looking like a bargain and we can be sure that in a couple of years the bidding for the next big thing in CB’s will start way higher than 90mill.

It’s all bloody insane. We have to start spotting the VVD’S of this world a club before we do atm and snapping them up while they are still cheap. Both VVD and The Leicester Quasimodo were nailed on to be top players before they got to Southampton and Leicester. Instead we spent a year scouting Mangala and still bought him. At a ridiculous fee.

I’m sure that Pep will get the player he needs. Whoever that is will cost a ridiculous fee. 90 for The LQM or 40 for the Bournemouth kid, both will look cheap a couple of seasons down the road.

Football finances are beyond insane. Except when we sell of course.

 

[malg]

This one is not done yet.

With the news Otermendi wants to leave, I think we will be negotiating hard with Leicester.

I wonder if Leicester have fully paid the Kelechi Iheanacho fee?

£80m plus they make us take Kelechi back??

 

[vmsuhail]

pls United, take him.

He is an improvement over Phil Jones/Smalling/Lindelof/Bailly. Would rather see him at Leicester than at United.

 

[Keeper!]

Why do we even want him.. surely there are better, more skilled, and cheaper options. Do we really want an average English player here for 80+mill?

Knows the league, fits in easily, agree that he is totally overpriced but all decent English players are the same

 

[balotellishaircut]

This one is not done yet.

With the news Otermendi wants to leave, I think we will be negotiating hard with Leicester.

I wonder if Leicester have fully paid the Kelechi Iheanacho fee?

how about City don't want him, you clingers on why don't you think about this scenario.

 

[Mon Autre]

This one is not done yet.

With the news Otermendi wants to leave, I think we will be negotiating hard with Leicester.

I wonder if Leicester have fully paid the Kelechi Iheanacho fee?

Waiving money owed to us doesn't change what he will cost us though. Can't see that making any difference at all. I think he'd be a pretty solid signing for us. The fee sounds like it's higher than we'll pay but I guess players good enough for this side won't come cheap.

 

[TonyM]

Is there really an alternative that is “Not Foreign”, has the right personality and can play the Pep way? (Ake?)

If not we have 2 other quandaries...
1. Is there any other “not foreign” player out there that could replace one of our squad players? (Rice for Gundogan?)
2. Is there a foreign CB with the right price, personality and skills? (???)

I can’t think of many answers to those questions right now (bad timing).

Anything other than just paying the money for Maguire leads to very complicated scenarios. Close our eyes, cover our ears, suffer the ridicule and maintain low expectations- maybe there’s a chance that he’d surprise us and be worth it???

 

[City Raider]

The English player ‘tax’ is huge. If we are looking at this, we will be profiling our squad not just for next season, but for 3-5 years.