Manchester United believe they can win the race to sign Harry Maguire due to Manchester City's reluctance to pay in excess of £80million for the Leicester defender.
It's understood that Maguire would prefer to join the back-to-back Premier League champions this summer, but City's valuation of the England international is closer to £50million.
United are prepared to bid nearer to Leicester's asking price and hope to persuade the 26-year-old that his future lies at Old Trafford.
City are looking to replace Vincent Kompany while United recognise the need to strengthen in central defence after conceding more goals last season than any time in the last 40 years.
Maguire fits the profile of the young British player wanted by manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to rebuild his squad following the £17m signing of Wales winger Daniel James.
England Under-21 right-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka is another prime target for United this summer, but they will have to raise their offer closer to Crystal Palace's £60m valuation after having an opening bid of £40m rejected.
United also maintain a long-standing interest in Newcastle's £20m-rated midfielder Sean Longstaff but would prefer to bring in a more high-profile signing like Wan-Bissaka or Maguire first after acquiring James from Championship club Swansea City.
The welcome party is said to have included several player liaison personnel, staff from MUTV and a make-up artist, although neither Solskjaer or executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward were present.
Hotabnpstz
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United already have 7English player in d starting XI magiure and longstuff ll make it 9 British player in the line up ,my question is can this team make top 4EPL or win Europe? Rasford,Shew,Lingard,longstuff,wan bassika.jones,smelling,magiure,Young.. There ll be no excuses for Ole or his English player ,they don’t even have good market value no club ll want them smelling,Young,Jones,Lingard.. 5 CD at United Smelling,Jones,Eric,Rojo,victor, why can United sell 3 of this CD and add up the money and buy 2 new CD .. what’s Jones,Smelling,yong,Rojo,Matteo,Andreas,Lingard still doing in the team no reasonable contribution from them all...
Honcho__
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I prefer Koulibaly
lord_series
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yes we might have won the race, but we will still get disqualified
sodckostz
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Man city is taking maguire
kiwdlstuy
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LMAO...YOULL WON, ONLY IF IT A STUPIDITY CONTEST
Rico78
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that money is too much please look for another defender or add and get Koulibaly
30725522(deleted)
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tired of England footballers please don't sign them they turned to be burden in a club just look to young, Jones, lingard and lingard they are burden to the team
duucmnorst
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I would prefer united to fork out 80mil for koulibaly
maddyfootballer
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United also believed they had signed 60 more players [Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
NATTY004
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overrated....
GagoAlex
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OFFICIAL: Man United have now believed to win signing of its 1000 transfer target
kubbcklrt
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Too bad that no one wants to buy Smalling and Jones. These guys are glued to Man United 🤣🤣
kubbcklrt
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Too bad that no one wants to buy Smalling and Jones. These guys are glued to Man United 😊😂
kkstyles04
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Man Utd will keep going down if this is true. They are already stacked up with mediocre English players who are overrated by the English media.Pogba and De gea are the only world class guys they have in their squad.Recently I read they were increasing wages for Lingard for dancing like a clown. Maguire is good but 80m is too high a fee.And the way Utd have performed have reduced the market value of their players so selling won't be much helpful either.
Duanostyz
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am I the only one that thinks he is overrated ....de ligt would be perfect for united or Dias who is very solid
heccopst
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Bring Domagoj Vida
Latabcst
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I don't think Maquire is good. 80 million pounds for him is definitely not a good deal
lihcersz
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We're making another biggest mistake again... Our defence are now full of English players.....nothing different from Jonse and Smalling
Alexanderdoe
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why united like English players, English play are not consistent
sitadlmpyz
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I think RÙBEN DIAS of Sl benfica is a perfect Fit with Utd now... He can mek a perfect partnership with Victor lindeloff in defense both being from Sl benfica. Get him be4 u go 4 Harry
Raucmnsz
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is old pls don't buy him
only 26
Tamnruy
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is old pls don't buy him
Hopilmstyz
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another beautiful nonsense with confident please buy De ligt who is pun Maguire??? cry! cry! cry!
xapun
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i beginning to think Ole is a p***. His transfer targets are ridiculous
suhdkop
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they should sign all the players they know that can make a changes.real Madrid have already signed up to five players
Taza
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Please don't buy that cow called Maguire I'm pleading
Hawks01
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It’s to the point that as a Man U supporter I am ready to thrown in the towel and support another club. This is utter nonsense to be spending 80mil on Maguire when there is more to get from DeLigt. Transfer shambles continues.
naelkayyali
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he doesn't worth 80 ml sorry United
joel92
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the headline reads "have won", but the story say "can win". where do you belong really?
Pucknprsty
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it's good for Manchester United to sign him
badly
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bring Costa's manolas and Toby Alderweireld. their valuation is Very reasonable Toby 25m and manolas 40m
Manchester United may need some British
hizadirtuy
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bring Costa's manolas and Toby Alderweireld. their valuation is Very reasonable Toby 25m and manolas 40m
tiybiklotz
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Woodward just want to flood united with overhyped English players
Mawkrtyz
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sell lukaku and by dybala
Mawkrtyz
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it's better to go rakitic
DevSlayer7
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Magui don't believe any football player is worth more than £150M, these prices are becoming increasingly ridiculous
dusaprsz
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seems yall forgot the lessons learnt from Sanchez and fred....dont try and out bid MAN CITY cause it will only ends in failure lol
Meshybaba247
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Manchester City pull off from Sanchez because the asking price was too much. Manchester United paid such money and he is flop and has caused big problem to the club. The same process is Maguire. If a very intelligent couch like Gaurdiola back off from a overrated defender then I see no reason why Manchester United should go on. This is bullshit as English Media keep hyping average players. Manchester United Use your senses. Better get De ligt and Diaz for just €130M (De ligt €85M) and (Diaz €45M). I will never ever like Marguire in United Shirt.
kobckstz
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man utd always llike this
m_ghdfy
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for £80m, its better to sign Ruben Dias. young and good international experienced with Portugal & Benfica. can get him for £60m. why United need to sign overpriced English player? Madrid didn’t sign Spanish player. if you want to sign local players, learn from Bayern. they’ve signed all good German players, even now linked with Timo Werner & Kai Havertz. future of German football.
Meshybaba247
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I hate it news
m_ghdfy
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another Jones & Smalling 🤡
B2bika
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80m really??????
Bubcklnu
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yes we don't real need
NischalKunwar
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city's valuation is correct tho
Juybcelpz
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man u sign
Paeeklmns
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The only chest man in Manchester United was Sir Alex Ferguson who can say the truth about signing players
Paeeklmns
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Ake is good enough than Maguire
Paeeklmns
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Maguire is worth 200 million, leicesterpool know this. Also funny to see small clubs like Manchester United get linked to him
Manchester United small Club??????! You don't know what you're doing in the world
mokeorst
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WTF he’s just as useless as Smalling and Jones Untd are a joke seriously 😡