Where did Maguire’s Man Utd career go wrong?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In 2019 Manchester United signed defender Harry Maguire for a world-record £80m for a defender, four years later he’s set to join West Ham in a £30m deal.
Ayo Akinwolere is joined by The Athletic's Adam Crafton and Mark Critchley to assess where it went wrong for Maguire at Old Trafford, his importance to England ahead of Euro 2024 and why moving to West Ham could rejuvenate the 30-year-old.
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| 0:00.0 | Four years on from joining Manchester United for a world record fee for a defender, |
| 0:08.7 | Harry Maguire looks set to leave Old Trafford. |
| 0:11.4 | After being stripped of his captaincy, he's set to join West Ham on a £30 million deal. |
| 0:16.7 | So what went wrong at United? |
| 0:18.2 | And is this move motivated to keep his place in the England squad? |
| 0:22.7 | I'm Ayahu Akim O'Leary. |
| 0:23.8 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 0:36.2 | Right, along for the ride from The Athletic, I have Adam Crafton, as well as our Manchester football writer Mark Critchley. |
| 0:42.9 | As we get into things, Harry McGuire, after Manchester United reached an agreement with West Ham over a £30 million deal. |
| 0:49.5 | So let's look into this. |
| 0:51.0 | Four years on from being the most expensive defender in world football united fought |
| 0:55.3 | off interest for pep cordialia at city adam how did we get to where we are right now um quite |
| 1:02.5 | quite a long story i think he still is the most expensive defender isn't he i mean you had got |
| 1:06.6 | yeah yeah officially rodeo last week it depends on um on your currency conversions and stuff like that. |
| 1:13.5 | I deep dive on this last week, but whatever. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, let's just say he is. |
| 1:17.2 | Come on, give him something. |
| 1:18.2 | Let's start positive, right? |
| 1:19.4 | It's the most expensive defender in the world. |
| 1:21.2 | Yeah, it depends if you're going on, I don't know, Google currency exchange or post office |
| 1:25.3 | or the boxers or whatever. |
| 1:28.2 | Yeah, so I think you probably have to divide Harry McGuire's time at Manionites into two sections. |
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