HARRY MAGUIRE could form part of Manchester United’s package to land Chelsea’s Mason Mount.
United are hopeful of securing Mount but they are some distance away from agreeing a fee with Chelsea wanting around £70million.
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But Old Trafford skipper Maguire, 30, who looks certain to leave the club, is valued at about £30m and could be offered by United.
Manager Erik ten Hag has claimed that Maguire, who joined United for £85million in 2019, “has a decision to make” in terms of his future.
However, the pair have yet to stage any talks.
With the FA Cup final against Manchester City tomorrow, they are due to meet next week, although ten Hag looks certain to open the door for the player’s exit.
New Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino tried to sign Maguire when he was at Hull but the offer from Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy was not good enough, so the defender signed for Leicester instead.
Equally, Chelsea do have a number of central defenders, and Kalidou Koulibaly and Trevoh Chalobah would have to be offloaded first.
United, meanwhile, are desperate to sign Mount and look set to beat Liverpool in the race for the England midfielder.
Maguire had already suffered a dip in form before the arrival of Erik ten Hag at Old Trafford last summer.
His struggles continued at the start of this season, and now he has found himself regularly warming the bench.
It has been previously reported that United are so keen to get him off the books that they have considered paying off the remainder of his contract.
It is claimed that he pockets around £190,000-a-week at Old Trafford.
And he could only expect to earn around half of that figure at any potential new club.
That would, therefore, leave United “to foot a £10m wage bill to get him off their books”.
