After hoping to sell him to West Ham before negotiations collapsed, Manchester United have decided to keep Harry Maguire this season.
He’s staying ! This time for sure, Harry Maguire will continue his career at Manchester United. The most expensive defender in history at the time of his transfer from Leicester City to the Mancunian club, the English international did not meet the high expectations and hopes placed in him by his club. The latter therefore sought to sell him this summer and an agreement had even been reached with West Ham, until the player had the operation scuppered for a salary story that was too low for his liking at the club. Hammers. From now on, the hour is not any more with a departure.
It’s’Evening Standard who indicated on Tuesday the irrevocable decision of the Red Devils regarding their defender. And the media explained the choice of the Mancunian decision-makers by the fact that United initially hoped to replace Harry Maguire by Benjamin Pavard. But the latter preferring instead to wear the jersey of Inter Milan (if Bayern Munich let him go), Manchester had to resolve to keep the bulwark of the English Three Lions. The time factor also played a role as with the transfer window ending on Friday, scouts felt it was best to keep Maguire for a few more months.
See you in January
Stripped of his captain’s armband this summer at the expense of Bruno Fernandes, Harry Maguire will therefore continue to drag out his sentence on the Manchester United bench, he who is now only a second choice in the hierarchy of defenders behind Raphaël Varane and Lisandro Martinez. Since the start of the season, he has not played a single minute in the three games already played by his team. Next January, his case should nevertheless be back on the table.
