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Leicester tell Manchester United Harry Maguire will cost at least £90m

Manchester United will have to pay more than £90 million for Harry Maguire and make him the most expensive defender of all time if they are to sign the Leicester City man this summer.

United’s top offer since the end of the season remains £60 million and the King Power club are still adamant that, while every player has a price, no offers below the £90million mark will be entertained. Leicester made their stance clear to both Manchester United and Manchester City in May and are determined to stick with their valuation, with the £75 million sale of Virgil van Dijk to Liverpool in January 2018 being used as a barometer.

 

Maguire is still yet to return for pre-season, having been granted an extra week’s holiday than most of the Leicester squad following his extended service at the end of last season with England in Portugal at the Nations League. Manchester City have also been interested in Maguire in the past but not at the price Leicester have been quoting.

It has been suggested that Maguire has expressed a desire to move but Leicester have received no direct indications from the 26-year-old over his intentions while he has been on holiday. The club were bemused by reports that another more recent offer has been made for the player by United with no contact in the recent weeks.

Were United to get close to Leicester’s valuation, Maguire’s replacement will have to be identified by his current club before they were prepared to let him go and given the current market for centre-halves across Europe that is likely to be a major investment for the club.

As things stand, United remain the only serious bidder but not at a price where Leicester’s ownership would be prepared to sell. That policy goes right up to vice-chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, known as Top, now in charge of the club following the death of his father Vichai.

Last summer Leicester successfully persuaded Manchester City to pay £60 million for Riyad Mahrez and they are adopting a similar position over Maguire. It is understood that an acceptable fee for Maguire could even be close to £100million.

The matter will have to be resolved in the coming weeks when Maguire returns to pre-season training. He is one of a number of players who have been pursued as a boot endorsee by the German sportswear company, Puma, who have also taken over as City’s kit suppliers. Should he switch boot supplier it is possible that there would be a bonus for joining a club with the same kit supplier.    

Maguire was a target for United last season during Jose Mourinho's time in charge but ended up staying with Leicester, signing a new £75,000-a-week contract.

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12 minutes ago, z-layrex said:

I think you're all in denial of how much we will miss him. If we intend to push for top 6 we cannot sell our best players, don't care how you spin it.

Liverpool sold Coutinho, signed Van Dijk and Alison then finished 2nd with 97 points and won the Champions League. 

 

Selling your best players and replacing them with worse ones = bad.

Selling players for over inflated fees and improving your squad in key positions that improve the first team = potentially amazing.

 

I'll admit though that it can go either way. Spurs sold Bale and brought in very average players. We sold Mahrez and badly missed his goals and assists which you could argue would have got us 7th place. 

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3 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Leicester tell Manchester United Harry Maguire will cost at least £90m

Manchester United will have to pay more than £90 million for Harry Maguire and make him the most expensive defender of all time if they are to sign the Leicester City man this summer.

United’s top offer since the end of the season remains £60 million and the King Power club are still adamant that, while every player has a price, no offers below the £90million mark will be entertained. Leicester made their stance clear to both Manchester United and Manchester City in May and are determined to stick with their valuation, with the £75 million sale of Virgil van Dijk to Liverpool in January 2018 being used as a barometer.

 

Maguire is still yet to return for pre-season, having been granted an extra week’s holiday than most of the Leicester squad following his extended service at the end of last season with England in Portugal at the Nations League. Manchester City have also been interested in Maguire in the past but not at the price Leicester have been quoting.

It has been suggested that Maguire has expressed a desire to move but Leicester have received no direct indications from the 26-year-old over his intentions while he has been on holiday. The club were bemused by reports that another more recent offer has been made for the player by United with no contact in the recent weeks.

Were United to get close to Leicester’s valuation, Maguire’s replacement will have to be identified by his current club before they were prepared to let him go and given the current market for centre-halves across Europe that is likely to be a major investment for the club.

As things stand, United remain the only serious bidder but not at a price where Leicester’s ownership would be prepared to sell. That policy goes right up to vice-chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, known as Top, now in charge of the club following the death of his father Vichai.

Last summer Leicester successfully persuaded Manchester City to pay £60 million for Riyad Mahrez and they are adopting a similar position over Maguire. It is understood that an acceptable fee for Maguire could even be close to £100million.

The matter will have to be resolved in the coming weeks when Maguire returns to pre-season training. He is one of a number of players who have been pursued as a boot endorsee by the German sportswear company, Puma, who have also taken over as City’s kit suppliers. Should he switch boot supplier it is possible that there would be a bonus for joining a club with the same kit supplier.    

Maguire was a target for United last season during Jose Mourinho's time in charge but ended up staying with Leicester, signing a new £75,000-a-week contract.

Exactly!

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4 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

75 grand a week! - if we are asking 80m +  for a mature player we are paying 75k a week then that’s a bit sh1tty 

 

 

 

I imagine he’s got a ****ing massive loyalty bonus tbf 

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Notable that the club have taken the opportunity to shut this down quickly via Percy rather than leaving the speculation to mount - we don’t usually comment. Suspect we aren’t happy that someone is briefing from either yanited or Harry’s camp to stir the Sh1t 

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20 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

Liverpool sold Coutinho, signed Van Dijk and Alison then finished 2nd with 97 points and won the Champions League. 

 

Selling your best players and replacing them with worse ones = bad.

Selling players for over inflated fees and improving your squad in key positions that improve the first team = potentially amazing.

 

I'll admit though that it can go either way. Spurs sold Bale and brought in very average players. We sold Mahrez and badly missed his goals and assists which you could argue would have got us 7th place. 

Van Dijk and Alisson were world record fees for a defender and goalkeeper. We can’t look for replacements of that calibre. They also had four top players for three positions really, so could afford to lose one. 

 

We would be looking at more unproven players as replacements which may or may not come off. 

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21 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

Liverpool sold Coutinho, signed Van Dijk and Alison then finished 2nd with 97 points and won the Champions League. 

 

Selling your best players and replacing them with worse ones = bad.

Selling players for over inflated fees and improving your squad in key positions that improve the first team = potentially amazing.

 

I'll admit though that it can go either way. Spurs sold Bale and brought in very average players. We sold Mahrez and badly missed his goals and assists which you could argue would have got us 7th place. 

This comparison doesnt work for me. 

 

We arent Liverpool. We dont have the same draw. Both Alison and Van Dijk were known talents that most could see would be successful. We have to sign players with unknown potential and thus have a larger risk at replacing a top player. 

 

Yes, you'd imagine for that fee we would improve the squad overall but there is always a risk involved.  Look at what Spurs did with the Bale money, personally id have rather kept Bale. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2551334-ranking-the-players-spurs-bought-with-the-gareth-bale-money#slide7

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44 minutes ago, z-layrex said:

I think you're all in denial of how much we will miss him. If we intend to push for top 6 we cannot sell our best players, don't care how you spin it. 

This all depends on how we replace him. With Tielemans coming in, we won't miss Harrys runs from the back as much (because they won't need to be as frequent). Additionally, Harry was much worse than Evans last season defensively, he was on the whole pretty average.

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29 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

75 grand a week! - if we are asking 80m +  for a mature player we are paying 75k a week then that’s a bit sh1tty 

 

 

 

Clever! I seem to recall it was reported he wasn't on that much when he first signed for us (£45k a week or something). There was interest and in the end agreed to a new improved deal that was say £75k a week. The dilemma now for Maguire is, does he push for move to get the mega money elsewhere and lose a loyalty bonus worth several million, or try and sign a new deal with us worth similar to what Schmeichel and Vardy are on but then further hamper the chances of a move in the near future. (It takes a good few years to get 6 figures a week with us) 

 

We hold all the cards, I think he might ask to leave personally and we sell at £75-80m but with no loyalty bonus and everyone's happy.

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Love how opposition fans especially United one's are saying he isn't worth that much.

 

No he's not but us Leicester fans are sitting back laughing because we have no reason to sell him lol 

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He’s good and all that, but I think most of us would sell for the right price. But what is that price? If Wan Bissaka is worth £50m... then you need to be looking at £100m +. As crazy as that sounds. As previous posters have said, we hold all the cards.

 

I’m surprised he wants to go to Utd anyway. Ole will be proven out of his depth by the new year. Hardly a stable club or arguably a good move.

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Maguire is a decent player for us but we are covered for options in defence now. It would have been a lot riskier to sell him last summer. We were an absolute s''' show at the back in the second half of 2018 (and for quite a bit of 16/17). The fact that 3 defenders stepped up means we are a bit more solid now.We were planning for it last summer and though unproven Soyuncu and Benkovic are ok players to have.If it meant keeping the rest of the team that finished the Chelsea game intact then selling Maguire for 80 million would be astute business.

 

We had hysteria over Mahrez going and how it was the end but there is probably more optimism (and less Algerian fanboys!) now than there was this time last year. I reckon we will be alright come what may

 

You gots to chill people!

 

 

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