Harry Maguire: Brendan Rodgers says valuation not met for Leicester defender

Leicester City boss Brendan Rodgers says the club's valuation of defender Harry Maguire has not been met, following a £70m bid by Manchester United earlier in July.

Rodgers did not mention United by name but said a "huge club" were interested in the 26-year-old England centre-back.

He said: "Harry's a top quality player and no-one has come near the valuation to tempt the club to sell."

Maguire featured in Leicester's 1-0 friendly win at Scunthorpe on Tuesday.

Striker Ayoze Perez, who signed for £30m from Newcastle United earlier in July, scored the only goal.

Rodgers added: "The other club interested is a huge club, but he's a really good guy. I've been in this position a number of times and it's never easy but he's taken part in everything and hasn't showed anything other than sheer professionalism.

"You've seen that tonight with the 45 minutes he played."

Asked by Sky Sports News about potential replacements should Maguire leave, Rodgers added: "The club have been very good. If we lose him, we'd have a number of targets we'd look at."

The defender, who helped England reach the World Cup semi-finals in 2018, signed a five-year contract with the Foxes last September.

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Squeeze as much as you can out of them , United are desperate enough to pay £80M for a donkey they might pay £100M if leicester throw in a bag of carrots too.
As a Leicester supporter, I don't think Maguire is worth £80 million. No player on the planet is worth that amount. Van Dijk isn't worth the £70 million Liverpool paid for him, it's just they were prepared to pay that much for him. It's the market - which is crazy at the moment, but that's just the way it is.

Oh, and by the way, he is a good player.
Huge club? So, not United then.
Football went mad years ago. No player is worth what is paid for him, it is all stupid money.

In the current football climate, clubs pick a random figure and the rich club backers just say OK.

He will move to Man Utd or City for 75 Million by the end of the window.

The media have decided it will happen and they will not stop with these articles until it happens.

Modern English Football
If Pogba is worth 150M and the Belgian Emile Heskey is supposedly worth 75M then pay us a world record for Harry or leave us alone. It was the worlds richest clubs that drove the prices up... and you cant give Sanchez away.... Harry would prefer City anyway, just like Leicester, Manchester is blue!
I like Maguire. His team mates clearly like him and the club arent that bothered about selling him unless its for the right money.

He isn't digging his heels in and he is being a model professional by the sounds of things

How much is character, ability to fit into any team plus he doesn't have an ego worth in todays market?

Leicester should dig in and do everything on there terms.
Aldeweireld at 20 odd million a better option. Maguire not in same league as Van Dijk so shouldn't command an equivalent fee.
If Maguire was as bad as all you armchair experts say, don’t you think Leicester would accept £70m? He’s a very good centre back
There aren’t many very good ones around
Today's £80m is 2015’s £40m
Nobody expected VVD to be this good. He’s probably worth £120m -£150m now which makes £80m reasonable for an English proven centre back.
Just so the plastic fans understand, Leicester DO NOT need to sell so can ask what ever price they want. If Man U won’t stump up the cash then he stays, it’s really that simple.
England have had a dearth of centre backs since Rio,Sol,Ledley etc, retired

Maguire would not have got anywhere near England selection when they were around.

So please,please,please,don't use his place in the England team as justification for a ridiculous transfer fee.

Maguire 20 caps,Phil Jones 27 caps,Chris Smalling 31 caps.

Says it all really !
I'm not sure who's madder. Man U for bidding £70m for Maguire or Leicester for turning it down!
If rumours of Leicester replacing him by paying £40m+ for Lewis Dunk are true then Maguire is worth every penny of £80m and then some.
Be careful what you ask for Harry. You are a big fish in the Leicester pond and they set up to help you. Utd just look a mess not helped by the Glazers and Woodward. Whereas Leicester have a plan, good owners and an excellent manager. Leicester are on the rise. The same cannot be said of Utd.
70 million? madness
Hang on, all the MUFC fans, The Sun and the BBC said he was at Old Trashbin yesterday having a medical and would be announce as a player within 24hrs? Are you saying this isn't the case? Could it be the fans, The Sun and BBC have absolutely no idea about anything are are just writing nonesense to fill space up? Surely not?
Why on earth would he want to go there?
With the likes of Tielemans and Perez adding to the attacking threat, as well as the likelihood of Andros Townsend joining too, I see a very bright future at Leicester.

Leicester also have plenty of youngsters, some English ones too, Choudhury, Barnes, Gray, Chilwell, Ndidi etc.

It would be stupid for Maguire to go to a mid table side, rather than staying at a future Champions League Team.
the mu acadamy must be suffering if they are willing to pay 50mil for bissaka and 70 mil for maguire are they incapable of bringing on any of there own young players if your a defender in the youth or reserve set up you may as well find somewhere to go on loan cause you aint into this team
Average defender, but commercially over-rated because he's English.
I agree, not worth £70m, the transfer market valuation of players is outrageous, cannot be justified and that goes for the wages as well.