Harry Maguire: £80m Man Utd Move, Online Hate & World Cup Dream | My Best Coach
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This episode of My Best Coach with Harry Maguire is produced in partnership with Gillette.
Ian Wright sits down with Harry Maguire and his dad, Alan, who played an instrumental role in his career.
The Manchester United centre-back reveals what Michael Carrick is really like in the dressing room and the impact he has made this season.
They look back on Harry’s journey from being coached by his dad to an £80 million move to one of the biggest clubs in world football, including whether the pressure of that transfer fee affected him.
Harry Maguire also opens up on one of the toughest periods of his career, becoming the focus of online abuse that impacted both his dad and his family.
Together, they discuss what happened behind the scenes and how he came through it.
The conversation also covers Harry Maguire’s contact from José Mourinho, losing the Manchester United captaincy, signing a new deal, and his 2026 FIFA World Cup dreams.
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0:00: Intro
05:28: Harry Maguire x Ian Wright
10:15: What Michael Carrick is like
13:17: Maguire's Best Coach
20:12: Maguire's growth, how he views Yoro and Heaven
21:34: Maguire vs United in the FA Youth Cup
34:55: Dealing with relegation
36:41: Joining Leicester City
40:00: £80m transfer fee
41:37: Dealing with online hate
48:00: Being stripped of captaincy
52:04: Signing a new deal at United
53:42: World Cup hopes
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| 0:00.0 | You know what, you've got to give that a little bit of a... |
| 0:07.0 | Give it a little bit of a shake. |
| 0:10.0 | What are we doing here today, Ian? |
| 0:13.0 | We're going to interview the great Harry McGuire, |
| 0:16.0 | player I very much admire, admire his journey, |
| 0:20.0 | and we're going to be talking about the best coach he's had who's been the one that's helped him the most through everything he's perfect he's perfect to talk to what he's been through what he's done how he's come through and start you know what I'm going to do I'm going to let that just like I'm going to let it I'm going to let that just like, I'm going to let it settle. |
| 0:38.7 | Just let it settle. |
| 0:39.7 | People feel you just jump on straight away with the razor now. |
| 0:42.8 | You just let it settle with it. |
| 0:44.9 | It smells nice. |
| 0:47.9 | What do you know about Ian Wright, Harry? |
| 0:51.1 | I know that he is a very good guy, |
| 0:54.7 | an amazing football and an even better person. |
| 0:58.2 | Do you see any similarities between his career and your career? |
| 1:00.8 | I must say, |
| 1:03.0 | Ian was a tad before I was watching football on a regular basis. |
| 1:10.3 | I've seen a lot of daylight, and I know that it was an amazing fin a regular basis. I've seen a lot of |
| 1:11.1 | his eye likes and I know that it was an amazing finisher. And that's not |
| 1:15.9 | something I am so I'd say we're not similar on the football pitch but I do |
| 1:21.8 | think he's had an amazing career. Would you have liked to have marked it? |
| 1:25.3 | No, not really. So yeah, so I'm going to be doing that with a big man. |
| 1:28.6 | So looking forward to the best coach. So who's his best coach? Who's the person that inspired him? Who's the person that he went to when it was on top for him? He was the one he spoke to when he couldn't speak to other people, especially when he's going through the tough times and the good times. and so that's what we're doing the best coach |
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