Chelsea are keen to snap up Manchester United defender Harry Maguire and will battle Tottenham Hotspur for him.
Harry Maguire is a wanted man with Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and more interested in signing him.
That is according to The Sun, who claim that Maguire is ready to quit Manchester United this summer.
It’s stated that the England international is ‘angry, shocked and upset’ at losing the United captaincy.
Maguire feels that his time at United is over and four Premier League clubs want to sign him.
Chelsea are believed to be joining the race alongside Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United.
The report claims that Maguire earns around £200,000-a-week at United and he could leave for around £30million.
That’s some way shy of the £85million United paid to sign Maguire from Leicester City in 2019 but the Red Devils may cut their losses.
Mauricio Pochettino could finally sign Harry Maguire
Chelsea’s interest may sound bizarre but this may have a lot to do with new boss Mauricio Pochettino.
Chelsea have turned to the Argentinian as their new boss and he is seemingly a big fan of Maguire.
Tottenham fans will remember that Pochettino wanted to bring Maguire to Spurs in 2017, when Maguire traded Hull City for Leicester City.
The Sun reported at the time that Spurs simply weren’t willing to match the money Leicester put on the table.
Former Spurs defender Danny Rose has backed up the claims that Tottenham wanted to sign Maguire back then too.
Rose indicated in 2020 that Pochettino was ‘all over’ Maguire and really wanted him at Tottenham but it just wasn’t to be.
Fast forward six years and Pochettino could finally land Maguire after all, potentially beating Tottenham to his signature in a strange twist of fate.
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