£65m Harry Maguire

[Chali 2na]

And to think we sold him for about £3m.

I thought we got a good price for Harry, especially considering he was in his last year of his contract.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I thought we got a good price for Harry, especially considering he was in his last year of his contract.

And no one put in a higher bid.

 

[HuddersfieldBlade]

And no one put in a higher bid.

Or just played in a World Cup semi final

 

[grafikhaus]

How much could they have picked him up for if they'd signed him after the FA Youth cup final?

We all knew he was something special but the powers that be at Old Trafford obviously couldn't see it.

Ditto Paul Pogba.

 

[Sam_blades]

Pretty sure we would get over a million in 'Training compensation' if Harry sold for a fee in the region of £65 million as he was with us between the ages of 12 and 23. Man united recently made over 2 million on Ronaldo moving from Real Madrid to Juve. The regulations for this are here;
https://resources.fifa.com/image/up...2018-2925437.pdf?cloudid=c83ynehmkp62h5vgwg9g

 

[spongebobblade]

Can’t see why we would get a penny. I’m not holding out for one anyway.

And to think we sold him for about £3m.

That was purely and simply because we were a league 1 club and Harry had very limited Championship experience. Sign of the old times I’m afraid. At the time it was a fairly realistic fee. The grating bit is that we invested so much energy and time in him yet the real winners will be Leicester and Hull......just because they were higher placed

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Not 100%. Clubs can include a sell on profit attached to a player. So we could have had a clause in the contract from his Hull days stating that if Leicester sell him, we get a % of profit from the transfer that hull make. It usually is small. But better than nothing.

Be just our luck to have a £15M clause if he ever scores in a World Cup Finals game instead knowing our lot.

 

[Sean Thornton]

That was purely and simply because we were a league 1 club and Harry had very limited Championship experience. Sign of the old times I’m afraid. At the time it was a fairly realistic fee. The grating bit is that we invested so much energy and time in him yet the real winners will be Leicester and Hull......just because they were higher placed

AND
NO
ONE
BID
MORE
!

 

[spongebobblade]

AND
NO
ONE
BID
MORE
!

And of course it was the first and only bid Hull made. FACT

 

[YES Blade]

AND
NO
ONE
BID
MORE
!

I agree if it’s the highest bid you aren’t going to get anymore, however you don’t have to sell, you can always keep hold of the player!

I know with Harry we had to sell because of his contract, but in general if the bid is crap you should keep hold of the player until a decent bid arrives.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I agree if it’s the highest bid you aren’t going to get anymore, however you don’t have to sell, you can always keep hold of the player!

I know with Harry we had to sell because of his contract, but in general if the bid is crap you should keep hold of the player until a decent bid arrives.

So we had to sell Harry. And no one bid more.

 

[nopigfansintown]

The situation with Harry was a fairly unique one. We could have kept him for a final year and taken it to a tribunal. We'd have been likely to have recieved a favourable fee due to the amount of appearances,value of offered contract, international caps etc. For me it was time to let the kid go after holding him back for 3-4 years.It was frustrting to not see the club not develop alongside this outstanding talent. He'd earned his move, and had refused to sign an extended dea.l We should be blaming Clough for not reinvesting properly, and Bruce for not recognising his outstanding talent. If he did I think the sell on clause would've been bigger, as he'd have gone to a bigger club than Leicester.