Harry Maguire set for SHOCK £50m PSG transfer

Stuart Telford

• 10 Mar 2023 08:23 GMT
• 3 min read

Manchester United captain Harry Maguire is set for a shock £50 million move to Paris Saint-Germain in the summer according to reports.

Maguire remains the most expensive defender of all time following his £80m transfer from Leicester to Man Utd in the summer of 2019, but he has fallen down the pecking order under Erik ten Hag this season.

The Dutchman kept the England international as his club captain last summer, but he had preferred Raphael Varane and Lisandro Martinez in central defence, and Maguire has made just five Premier League starts.

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According to the Sun, Maguire already had a path to Paris lined up in the winter, and a lot of the groundwork has already been laid.

'Deal was on the table'

"SunSport can reveal that a deal 'was on the table' for Manchester United's skipper in the January transfer window but time ran out before it could be finalised," they write.

"PSG will have to match Maguire's £200,000 a week wages but with the club backed by billions of Qatari petro-dollars that is not seen as a problem."

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PSG could be in for a busy summer following the club's last 16 exit from the Champions League at the hands of Bayern Munich on Wednesday.

Kylian Mbappe continues to be linked with a move to Real Madrid whilst there is a suspicion Lionel Messi wants to wind his career down closer to home with Newell's Old Boys and David Beckham's Inter Miami seen as options.

Maguire could find some space at centre-back as well. Al Nassr want to reunite Sergio Ramos with former Madrid teammate Cristiano Ronaldo in Saudi Arabia.

Presnel Kimpembe's nose is out of joint, meanwhile, after Christophe Galtier promoted Mbappe, Ramos and Marco Verratti to vice captaincy without consulting him.

PSG are set to sign Martin Skriniar on a free transfers from Inter Milan, but there could be space for both in a back three alongside club captain Marquinhos.