United makes Maguire the most expensive defense in history. Four defenders in the 'top 10' of signings of the last year and a half
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The most expensive center forward in history was Gonzalo Higuain, for which Juventus paid 90 million euros to Naples three summers ago. The most expensive central defender in history is since yesterday Harry Maguire, for which Manchester United has paid 87 kilos to Leicester. Serve the comparison as an example of the extent to which the football market has gone crazy with the centrals, for which today millions of dollars equivalent to those of attacking players are paid. In the last year and a half, four of the 10 most expensive operations in the world had centrals as protagonists: Maguire himself, Matthijs De Ligt (85.5 million, variables included), Virgil Van Dijk (84) and Lucas Hernández (80 ). The most absolute of crazy things.
After Joao Felix, Griezmann and Hazard, Maguire's is the most expensive transfer of what we have on the market. And in the absence of what may happen with Pogba or Neymar, the feeling is that it will retain that fourth place. Those 87 million euros represent a monstrous disbursement from Manchester United for this 26-year-old center, protagonist of the English team that reached the semifinals of the last World Cup. Unlike those who accompany him on the list of the most expensive, it is far from being a prodigy with the ball at his feet. It is the classic English central: high (1.94 meters) forceful, decisive, always well positioned and powerful in the air game, both in its area and the opposite.