Mauricio Pochettino had hoped to take Harry Maguire to Tottenham, says Danny Rose, with the former Spurs boss having been “all over” a commanding centre-half long before Manchester United put a record-breaking £80 million ($97m) deal in place.
The England international became the most expensive defender in world football when making a switch to Old Trafford in the summer of 2019.
That move was made from Leicester, with the Foxes having acquired the 27-year-old from Hull City two years earlier.
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It was during Maguire’s time with the Tigers that he first started to register on the radar of those further up the Premier League food chain, with Pochettino spotting his potential early.