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Harry Maguire remains in no doubt that Leicester City are a club on the rise.

City are stuttering in the bottom half after picking up just four points from a possible 18 in 2019, while they have also been knocked out of the FA Cup.

But their performances have impressed, they have one of the youngest squads in the Premier League and off the field a new £100m state-of-the-art training ground is being built and a stadium expansion is planned.

That all adds up to a club that is heading in the right direction.

“It’s a great club, a club that’s on a ladder and still rising,” Maguire told the Sunday Times. “I still feel it can go places.

“I see it as a Leicester that, four years ago, were trying to stay in the Premier League. Where now I feel we’re totally different to that. We’re pushing for a top-half finish but there’s still a level we can go, that we can really hit.

“We can aim for the top eight, the top seven, and then obviously we’ve got to start being competitive in cup competitions as well. Start getting to finals and maybe win some silverware – I think that’s where we have to aim.”

After rising from League One star to World Cup quarter-finalist in four years, Maguire is ambitious to keep climbing.

But, he remains loyal, as last summer’s interest from Manchester United proved.

“Leicester gave me a great platform to go and play at a World Cup. If it wasn’t for Leicester, maybe I wouldn’t have done that,” he said.

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“So repaying them is important. There was no doubt in my mind I was going to be loyal and start the season off with Leicester.”

But can he achieve his aims at City?

“Every young player wants to play at the top level,” he added. “At the moment I take everything step by step and concentrate game by game and see where it takes me.

“Like I said, Leicester are a club on the up and we’ll see where they go and we’ll see where I go.”

Certainly, Maguire’s immediate future is at the King Power Stadium, where there are 12 games left for City to clinch a top-half spot.

Consistency is the key to getting there, believes the 25-year-old.

“We’ve been too inconsistent,” Maguire said. “Our highs have been really high and our lows have not been good enough.

“So when we’re playing against the teams we’re expected to beat at home and we’re not performing, you understand the fans not being happy. It’s something we need to work on.”