Who else would you buy to make an instant improvement to the back four? If you say Koulibaly your not paying attention to the market.
That’s £120m for a 28 year old. The market doesn’t work like that in 2019. Atletico just paid the same for a 19 year old. The only defender you would spend £100m plus for at that age is VVD.
Young Axel isn’t ready yet. Umtiti is 25 but he’s injury prone. Alderweireld is 30.
If you think Maguire isn’t better than every single central defender we currently have I don’t know what to say to you apart from do the basics and check the stats.
Smalling and Jones don’t even make the England squad meanwhile Maguire first on the team sheet to start.
All these gymnastics I see United fans pullin' to try justify this crap. "the market, the market" blah blah I don't see City, Madrid, Barca, Juve, PSG or any club spendin' 80m on defenders who have never played CL.
We don't kno' how much Kouli is
So what if Toby is 30, he wudda cost 25m and he's a far far superior player. Maguire is 26 and there is no indication he gonna get better. Only blind hope
What stats am I lookin' at?
We went from 28 goals conceded to 54. The same defenders. That means other factors are involved, as they always are when a defence is leaky.
We won't concede 54 goals again next year with or without Maguire.
I didn't mention Jones j said Smalling and Southgate picks Tarkowski and Lewis Dunk over him. They better than Smalling too?
Southgate was quite clear in his reasoning, he favours Maguire coz he plays from the back
