What price Harry Maguire? No, really, what price Harry Maguire? Eyebrows were raised in 2017 when Leicester City paid £12 million, potentially rising to £17 million, for a 24-year-old who had been part of the Premier League’s worst defence that season at Hull City.
The same is happening now, two years and 20 England caps later, with Leicester warning Manchester City and Manchester United that they will not sell him for less than £90 million.
Is he worth it? By any kind of objective analysis, the answer would be an emphatic no, particularly given that Juventus paid “only” £67.5 million this week to sign the outstanding young Ajax captain Matthijs de Ligt. As impressively as Maguire has developed in recent years, he still looks like