Manchester United have agreed terms with Leicester City over the £80 million transfer of Harry Maguire to Old Trafford.
The 20-time English champions had been chasing the centre-back for the entire summer having curtailed plans to bring him to the club 12 months earlier.
But now they are set to pay a world-record for a defender to make Maguire a United player, pending the result of a medical. The fee exceeds the previous record of £75m Liverpool paid Southampton for Virgil van Dijk in January 2018.
The 26-year-old’s status in the game was raised during England’s run to the World Cup semi-finals in 2018, and his continued form for Leicester since arriving at the King Power Stadium in 2017 also caught United’s eye.