After a long time waiting, Man United have finally announced Harry Maguire as Man United's new centreback. He joins on a world record transfer 80 million taking Rio Ferdinand's number five shirt. Maguire is a red. This is going to be my reaction video. I want to explain where I've been for the last few days, explain why I'm late today with the reaction video, have a quick catchup with you all and chat about Maguire I suppose. Before I get into it, this video is sponsored by Unibet who are supporting 90 people's TV over the transfer window. Now there's an article I wrote on their blog about who I think our new number nine should be this year because of the whole crazy situation going on with Romano de Carcou and link in the description to make sure you follow that. But from a personal perspective, where have I been for the last four or five days? I've had a few people contacting me asking what's been going on now. I went to Wilderness Festival for four days and they had absolutely no signal there whatsoever. But on top of that I decided to break my finger in the process. I was in A&E today getting that strapped up and getting that sorted. But that's why my matri action didn't exist for the AC Milan game because I didn't get to see it. That's why my reaction to the Maguire signing has been a little bit late because I spent five hours in hospital today. But that's in the past and let's move on. Let's talk about Harry Maguire. Now so many people are going to say that 80 million is too much from the Guire. And it really is. But not in the context of how the market's gone and what man united need because since Fergie we've had or even during Fergie, Phil Jones, Chris Moll in Marcus Rojo, Daily Blind, Mateo Darmian's played centre back at some point in his life as well. We've had so many distinctly average centrebacks that united now, gone out and spent the biggest money, a world record price for a defender to get. I would say one of the best in the Premier League. That's absolutely certain. Top 10 in the world, I think that might be a bit stronger at the moment, but he's clearly got the ability to do that. And he stepped up throughout his career from whole through to Leicester, England as well. I think Harry Maguire is really going to transform United's defence. We've got Victor Lindelove, an actual genuinely top draw partner. They'll be bullish together. And that's a sort of defender that Maguire is and he'll bring the sort of physical presence that our defence really has lacked for some time. And if you imagine this game against Chelsea, our back five could be Dehaya, Wambasaka, Shaw, Lindelove and Maguire. That's a hell of an upgrade on the likes of last season when we had Ashley Young, Chris Molling, Phil Jones. That's a big step in the right direction. But I'm not going to sell Shaw. One strange thing I'll do one point out here is I find it odd how United have now spent 80 million on Harry Maguire this summer when we didn't want to spend less than that on Maguire last summer. And that's just down to wood would be in spineless and not sack a merino when he should have but United now have gone out and signed three British talent so far this summer. Dan James, Aaron Wambasaka and now Harry Maguire. And it's a new look United team going forward. And I'm very optimistic about it. Maguire is going to bring so many aspects to our defence that it hasn't had. The real presence, physical presence is going to make such a difference. But surely it's the fact that Maguire is actually going to be our defensive leader. That's the main thing that we have to take away. And that's the main reason I'm excited about it. Not only can he play out from the back with a ball he's comfortable with his feet, that's going to make a massive difference to our tactical shape playing the ball out of defence. But Maguire will just like Van Dyke did at Liverpool. He makes, he'll make defenders around him better. Linda Love will be better because he's playing alongside Maguire. Wambasaka will be better because he's playing alongside Maguire and so we'll sure. De Hale will feel more confident because he's got Maguire now as a permanent outlet to find with a ball. It's probably one of the best signings I think that United have made post-verky. And maybe I'm saying that too soon or maybe it won't work out with Maguire but I think it will. I'm absolutely confident in it will. Maguire is really going to take our defence way above where it was previously. And if you imagine that back five as well to Hale aside, look at the back four against Chelsea. We might actually line up with a player that wasn't bought by Fergie. Those players like Young and Smorling and Jones and they've just been lingering and that's been a big issue with United. We just have players that have lingered but Maguire has signed and he looks buzzing for it. He did it very respectfully as well, didn't turn his back on less, didn't throw in a transfer request, didn't throw any tantrums. Just by the time, wait for United to pay the right price and we paid it in the end. It was a little bit painful how long it took but it's done now. United have got their man. We wanted Wanbisaka, we went and we got him. We wanted Maguire, we went and we got him. Now there's still plenty more to do in this window. The whole Lukaku situation stinks and he's got to leave the club. We desperately need a new central midfielder as well. We've only got a few days left but Maguire, signing Maguire is such a major turning point I think for our defence because our defence since Fergoye retired has always relied on David Dehaia having an absolute blinder last year. He had a bit of a shocker in comparison to his years before and all of a sudden we were leaking gold's left right and centre. Maguire is the sort of defender that Dehaia will have less shots to face because Maguire will help that defence stop them coming in so Wanbisaka as well. Our defence is going to be substantially better than it was last year. For that first game against Chelsea as well, what a big game that is but I'm over the moon that United have gone out, stuck to their guns and spent the money. I know people do get upset with how much, upstate is a pretty good word but it seems to get annoyed with how much clubs do spend on players but the reality of the Premier League now is that if you do not sign big and spend big your rivals will take a step ahead of you. And that's what Liverpool and City have done for the last few years but this summer United have spent massive on two defenders and that for me was the biggest problem in this squad. Centralfield is still a huge problem but defence, that lack of leadership, that's been the big problem. And Maguire will come in now and actually young might be the captain what he's on the pitch but I think Maguire is going to step straight into that captain type role without the arm band. I don't think it will be too long sorry before he actually does where the arm band. I think he's going to make that much of a difference and maybe it's because I've been watching Smorling and Jones and by being good and then by getting injured and roho and all these makeshift distinctly average centrebacks that I'm going to exaggerate how good Maguire is with every performance and that probably will happen but you've seen how much of an impact someone like Van Dyke had at Liverpool and that is what will be expected of Maguire at United. Now we're nowhere near overall the quality of the squad and the team the Liverpool have that's why we're not challenging for titles but this is a huge step in the right direction. Maguire is a fantastic signing it's worth every penny and I can't wait to see how we play against Chelsea. Having a defender who can run out with a ball man it's proper Rio Ferdinand and that's why he's been given that number. That's the sort of defender he's going to hopefully be. He won't be as good as Rio. No definitely won't be as good as Rio. Not many defenders are ever will be but Maguire is a fantastic signing 80 million well spent for United. It took a little bit longer than we all wanted to but it happened that we got it over the line. Let me know what we were thinking about the Maguire signing in the comments below. Going to be back to normal this week sorry about the lack of videos but I'm alive my fingers broken let's move on a few days left in his transfer window but Maguire is a red welcome to United man.