Ole Gunnar Solskjaer appeared to suggest that Harry Maguire could go straight into his Manchester United team for opening game of the Premier League season.

Maguire is set to put the finishing touches to his £80million switch from Leicester City to Old Trafford in the coming days, with the move making him the world's most expensive defender.

Solskjaer has been hot on the heels of Maguire all summer, but United finally made a breakthrough in negotiations on Friday, as the England man subsequently pulled out of the Foxes' pre-season friendly against Italian side Atalanta.

Maguire wasn't present in Cardiff as United beat AC Milan on penalties after a 2-2 draw , but Solskjaer was quick to mention him after the game.

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And when pressed on whether Maguire could face Chelsea in United's first game of the Premier League season next Sunday, Solskjaer said he was happy that the centre-back had enough pre-season minutes in his legs to play against the Blues.

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"Let's get the last details over the line," he said, "but yeah, he's played a few games over the summer so we'll have to assess him if and when."

United's summer signing Daniel James scored the winning penalty in the shootout, after goals from Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard had secured a 2-2 draw.

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And the Welsh winger sent a warning to Chelsea ahead of next weekend.

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"I think we have shown a different style of play of that high press that we do with the high ball," James told MUTV.

"Today we found it a bit harder, they played great football, great midfield, so we found it that bit harder, we sat in a tiny bit. But obviously Chelsea is going to be another big test, but we going to go full throttle.

"Next week is going to be another test for us, Chelsea will be another hard game. We have shown during pre-season what we are capable of, six (wins) out of six and we are definitely ready for that."