Yeah nah he looked very iffy in the group games. Do not want. It's not hard to look good when the team you're playing is missing their best player and most creative outlet and thus decides to ping long balls up the field to an ageing and declining Falcao (against 3 CBs too). Might as well go after Mina because he looked just as good if not better throughout the tournament (not really a fan of him either because he was out of position a lot and was covered by a brilliant Sanchez for 3/4 games). The moment the ball was on the ground and players were running at him he didn't look confident at all and made quite a few mistakes against the likes of Tunisia and Panama. He didn't set the world on fire at Leicester either this past season.
I really like the idea of Mina as I think he is extremely talented and also would accept a season of rotation behind Jan. Is it realistic though?
Maguire I think is better than you are giving him credit for, but on the other hand, I have a hard time seeing him want to leave Leicester for a rotation role behind Jan after only 1 season there. It'd almost be better to go for him next summer instead given where our development is at.
Having had weeks now to consider it, I'm actually a big fan of selling Toby, and simply replacing him with a lot more Dier and Foyth. Take the money we'd use on a CB and add it to the CM pot to make sure we get the right signing there.
In total think I'd be satisfied if we could simply bag Ndombele and Grealish, with Toby and Dembele leaving.
Rose/Grimaldo would be a great in/out for us too. Rose being homegrown we'd have to pick up a homegrown to make up the numbers, and I guess that is part of how Grealish finds himself in our transfer rumors. Grealish I actually feel better about now as I am pretty sure he would accept a season fighting for a place in the squad even if we sold no one from attack this summer, which I like because it means we can tell more of these greedy clubs to fuck off and keep a better transfer posture for ourselves.
You can really feel the transfer window tension building right now!
We're getting a lot closer to the action boys!