Manchester United is not stupid, we have seen over the years club signed players but the majority of them change their minds for another club due to some reasons and I'm very confident that there are options in that contract for him to be sold at any given time and now that his performance has become a laughing stock, they have every reason to sell him without any compensation when he gets to WestHm, he will earn whatever salary he negotiate with them over there and by going to Westham, he will also be saving Manchester United his over price weekly wages because left to me, the club is only paying more than what he offered, Period!
However, no team wants to accept Maguire because of his poor performance with Manchester United, now the deal with West Ham has ended and it has been confirmed that Maguire will stay with Manchester United, to be honest I think he is really a burden for the Manchester United team, a high salary very high but there is no contribution that he can give, quite the opposite. lol
I don't think, De Bruyne absence will affect Manchester city performance because there are potential players on bench who can handle his position very well till he recover from injury, because people will use that four months to know if truly Manchester city manager is a talented manager because one tree can never make a forest. This is the time Pep Guardiola to go and work hard because this can be a test for Manchester city president to Pep Guardiola to know how strong he is to the team, and what he will do Incas all those players be release to other teams in future. I believe Erling Haaland will definitely do things that will make Manchester city to maintain that first position till De Bruyne recover from injury to keep the good name of the team.
However, it must be admitted that Kevin De Bruyne is a very important player for the Manchester City team, indeed his absence will not have a negative impact on the performance of this team because the Man City team has been built very solidly by Pep and does not depend on just one player, but if his absence Bruyne in the long term will certainly be a little detrimental for the team when they are going to compete against big teams or important matches.