We had already waited for a year to buy a defender. It was clear we needed a partner for Lindelof with the amount of injuries the rest of our defenders had received and Smalling not being the fit for what type of football we wanted to play.
You keep acting like Maguire has been a poor signing. How do you explain how much better our defense has been this year?
Your defence has improved because you signed a very defensive RB, in numerous games played a genuine back 5 and for 3/4's of the season played 2 defensively minded midfielders in front of your back 4/5. And yes, Maguire has improved on Smalling/Jones/Bailly and even Linderlof doesn't look quite the car crash he was before. That doesn't mean Maguire for £85m was a smart move.
But I take it that if you needed a new TV for a couple of years then you'd buy a massively over priced TV if you thought it was the best you could get and would watch it while sat on the floor because you didn't buy a sofa.
Anyway, the above is tongue in cheek but if you genuinely believe the money on Maguire and Pogba was well spent then ok, I think that's lunacy though. The only way I can understand it is that Utd have signed so many bad players over the last years that signing anybody that's been a marginal improvement on what you've had is seen as a good signing, even if they cost way in excess of what they were worth or what others have signed and got similar results.
edit: ok, I think we've done this to death now guys. Maybe it's a good idea to drop it before people start arguing.
