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This article is part of Football FanCast's Transfer Focus series, which provides opinion and analysis on recent transfer news...

According to The Sun, Harry Maguire has angrily confronted Leicester after the Foxes rejected bids worth £70m from both Manchester United and Manchester City for his services.

What's the word, then?

Well, the England international has reportedly hit out at Leicester and accused them of breaking a gentleman's agreement that they had when he put pen to paper on a five-year deal back in September - they had agreed not to stand in his way if a 'fair' offer arrived.

Maguire, 26, is said to be fuming that the Foxes are chasing a sum of £85m from interested clubs, and has pointed to Matthijs de Ligt's £58m move from Ajax to Juventus as a point of reference to reinforce the fact that they are demanding too much.

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Leicester are now sweating over whether or not the former Hull man will play in their friendly against Scunthorpe on Tuesday.

United will be boosted by this news

Presumably, no club would want to keep an unhappy player around, especially one so valuable.

£70m or anything over that would be serious cash for a club of Leicester's size, and if Maguire really has kicked up a massive fuss over bids being rejected for him, then United have surely been handed a big boost in their pursuit of 6 foot 4 centre-back.

They also look to have a clear run at Maguire after City were put off by the figures involved - they are prepared to go without a centre-back to replace Vincent Kompany.

When the player isn't doing anything to force a move, it makes it much, much easier for the selling club to demand whatever they want and leave the potential buyers hopeless.

However, when the player actively gets involved and starts to threaten the morale of the camp, then it becomes an issue that needs to be dealt with one way or another.

Either way, the Red Devils will have been boosted by the latest news on Maguire.