Is Harry Maguire on the verge of moving to FC Barcelona this summer?
As Barcelona continues to scour the market for a new center-back, an absolutely shocking and surprising name has emerged as a transfer target for the club. According to Fabrizio Romano, Manchester United captain, Harry Maguire is a player on the radars of Barcelona heading into the summer transfer window.
The world’s most expensive defender, Harry Maguire joined Manchester United in 2019 in a deal worth £80 million from Leicester City. However, the 29-year-old has had a topsy-turvy stint at Old Trafford so far, enduring his worst campaign to date in 2021/22.
Indeed, the England international was one of Manchester United’s poorest players in what was a disappointing campaign overall for the team, judging by its standards.
Manchester United could be open to selling their captain. Fabrizio Romano has spoken of new manager Erik Ten Haag’s desire to bring in a new center-back, preferably either one of Jurrien Timber or Pau Torres, which could render Maguire surplus to requirements at Manchester United.
Will Harry Maguire be used as a sweetener to bring in another Barcelona player?
It is believed that the interest in Maguire from Barça is tentative, and a deal is unlikely to occur during this window. Furthermore, center-backs are one of Barça’s stronger areas, with Gerard Pique, Clément Lenglet, Ronald Araujo, Samuel Umtiti, and Eric Garçia all being Xavi Hernandez’s current options at the heart of the defense.
Meanwhile, Roy Keane recently insisted that he felt “sorry” for Maguire for being given the Man Utd captaincy too early on in his time at Old Trafford.
“I feel sorry for Maguire,” Keane said recently in an interview. “If you go into a big club, it’s like, imagine if when I came to Man United when I was 20 or 21, quite young, and they went, Oh, you’re the captain. I’d be thinking ‘That doesn’t say much about the rest of the group!’ Surely someone has got to be at the club a number of years to be captain.“
Well, it looks like if this transfer happens, the only club going to benefit from this deal is Manchester united because Harry Maguire would NOT start at Barcelona at any cost until the whole defense, even Umtiti, is injured.
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Aryan Sharma
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