January 2023 Transfer Rumours, Discussions and Done Deals Thread

[john e]

The only way you could make a central defence of Maguire and Mings any slower would be to go three at the back with the corpse of Bobby Moore.

Probably still be more mobile than Konsa

[passport1]

Mings and Maguire ? on what planet

[Clark W Griswold]

Signing Maguire is the most stupid suggestion since someone suggested selling Martinez and replacing him with Pickford. These people cannot be serious.

[LukeJames]

Who taught Gareth Southgate how to use the Internet?

[pablo_picasso]

We should make a bid for Maguire, £20m?

Him and Mings would be a brick wall and give us time to ease Carlos in.

About as mobile as one…

[pablo_picasso]

Signing Maguire is the most stupid suggestion since someone suggested selling Martinez and replacing him with Pickford. These people cannot be serious.

I see your quotes & I raise you a “let’s put Kamara at CB!”

[Zouch Villa]

I really do not like the direction this thread has taken.  Can we please get back to fanciful talk of youthful Argentinians?

[paul_e]

Signing Maguire is the most stupid suggestion since someone suggested selling Martinez and replacing him with Pickford. These people cannot be serious.

This person, same guy with both.

[PaulWinch again]

That Pickford shout has aged well.

[paul_e]

It’s a lead weight now in hindsight, but at the time we signed a young, raw and promising Brazilian CF. Dreadful business were the deals we had Micah Richards or Shay Given.

Wesley wasn't "dreadful business", it was a £20m punt on a young player with potential who was doing "okay" six months into his English career.  He hadn't set the league alight, and he was never going to be Neymar, but we will never know how it might have turned out without his injury. We may well have outgrown him by now anyway - but he had 6 goals by this stage in the season, in a struggling side.  He would likely have got into double figures by the end of the season. Richarlison got 5 in his first season with Watford and got a £30m move off the back of it.

Players knackered by injury don't automatically become "dreadful bits of business".  Reserve that type of classification for the Ross McCormacks of this world. 

Correct.

Yep, lets not forget he got capped by Brazil in that time as well.

[Rory]

Maguire is a Mings style “body on the line, throw him a brick and he’ll head it away” style defender.

Is that what happened to Lescott?

[Lastfootstamper]

Maguire is a Mings style “body on the line, throw him a brick and he’ll head it away” style defender.

Is that what happened to Lescott?

No, he got smashed in the head by a manhole cover that fell from the back of a passing council wagon as he was heading home from school.

[Rory]

Maguire is a Mings style “body on the line, throw him a brick and he’ll head it away” style defender.

Is that what happened to Lescott?

No, he got smashed in the head by a manhole cover that fell from the back of a passing council wagon as he was heading home from school.

Really? I thought he was in with the wrong crowd and was hit with a bat or something? I'm sure I read that somewhere.

[eamonn]

No, it happened when he was a young boy. Karlos96 who used to post on here seemed to know a lot about it (think he was a neighbour).

[Rory]

Ah fair enough.