Harry Maguire has become the world’s most expensive defender after a reported £80million move to Manchester United from Leicester.
Here, PA looks at the 26-year-old England international’s background.
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Yeah so a good header doesn’t hurt. I mean the moment you head it proper, you feel it’s a good one. Know what I mean love? pic.twitter.com/a5b8UqDjv2
— Kyle Walker (@kylewalker2) July 7, 2018
Maguire is engaged to long-term girlfriend Fern Hawkins. The pair have been together for eight years and their first child, Lillie Saint Maguire, was born on April 3 this year, exactly nine months after England beat Colombia on penalties at the World Cup. It was after that last-16 victory in Moscow that Maguire was famously pictured talking to Hawkins in the stand. After Maguire then scored in the quarter-final win over Sweden, the picture went viral, becoming a meme with people adding their own captions. Team-mate Kyle Walker was one of the chief instigators, writing: “Yeah so a good header doesn’t hurt. I mean the moment you head it proper, you feel it’s a good one. Know what I mean love?” but the man himself also joined in. “Can you ask the neighbours to put the bins out on Monday? We’re not going home just yet,” Maguire wrote.
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