Mourinho ‘not confident’ of any signings today.
Press reporting he wants Boateng but the board want Maguire (and won’t pay what Leicester want).
Hoping for Boateng to be honest, if he’s fit he’d add some quality and experience to the defence. Not sold on Maguire, especially at £70-80m.
Wouldn't touch Boateng with a bargepole even on loan
1) you included a huge "IF" he remains fit which is a dubious to start with
2) At the world cup he looked incredibly slow and cumbersome - it was only the WC but even so the EPL is far more frenetic than the BL and imo several years too late
Just looks even more likely to give away free kicks / pens than Jones or Smalling and that's saying something.
When someone agrees to buy a relatively untested gk for £70m , £80m for Maguire (who is English so would cost more anyway between English clubs, and has a few seasons of experience in the EPL) doesn't seem so bad in that context.
Still not really sure why Chelsea sold Courtois for so little, they could have kept RM talking for another couple of weeks as EPL teams can still sell until the end of Aug. 35m seems very cheap even for someone refusing to train / wanting out
All transfer costs a just numbers now anyway - completely stupid even given the huge sums coming into the game.