West Ham ‘will try to sign Harry Maguire AGAIN this summer for a cut price’ – as David Moyes plots £20m summer swoop for the England defender

David Moyes is reportedly ready to rekindle his attempts to sign Manchester United defender Harry Maguire.

West Ham came close to signing the 31-year-old defender last summer, having agreed a £30m deal with the London club to sign the English defender.

That move never materialized, with the centre-back, who was stripped of the captain’s armband last season, seeking a £7m fee from the Hammers to leave the club.

Reports of Sun now claims Moyes is ready to step up his attempts to sign the defender this summer, with the outlet writing that West Ham could “make a discounted offer of between £15m and £20m”.

Maguire is out of contract at Old Trafford in June 2025 and The Sun claims Moyes is “interested in signing a defender who can win headers” and could “offer him a two or three-year deal”.

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It would be a lucrative deal for the defender, who has been ruled out of his last three games due to injury.

Erik ten Hag hinted that Maguire, who joined the club for a record £85million in 2019, could return for Sunday’s decisive FA Cup clash against rivals Liverpool.

“We had a good week,” said the Dutch coach. “The players you mention (Rasmus Hojlund, Maguire and Aaron Wan-Bissaka) returned to the field, partly at the beginning of the week and had a session (on Friday) and are all training.

‘We have to see how they recover from this, but it looks good. I think (they will be able to play).’

Maguire, who has endured some difficult seasons at United due to a lack of playing time, has featured in 23 games for the Red Devils so far this season, scoring in a 2-1 defeat to Fulham in February.

The defender, who had struggled to break into Ten Hag’s squad last season, came close to a move to the Hammers in the summer but talks collapsed after the Europa Conference League champions grew tired of waiting for him. The former Leicester defender will accept. conditions to leave the club.

Ten Hag had valued him as a key member of his team, despite stripping the 31-year-old of the United captaincy, handing the armband to Bruno Fernandes.

The Dutchman subsequently claimed that Maguire would benefit from losing the captaincy, and the defender subsequently enjoyed a much better season with United, having made just eight starts for United in the 2022-23 campaign after falling out of favour.

West Ham, who already have Konstantinos Mavropanos, Kurt Zouma, Angelo Ogbonna and Nayef Aguerd in the same position, hope Maguire’s asking price has dropped this summer.