Leicester City boss Claude Puel has laughed off losing Harry Maguire to Manchester United this afternoon.
Maguire is thought to be United's number one transfer target as they look to sign a central defender ahead of today's transfer deadline.
But ahead of tomorrow's Premier League opener at United, Puel said: "I can confirm he is going to Manchester - but only for a couple of hours!
"I am happy to keep Harry. He is our best player. I am a football manager and I want to keep our best players for the squad and for our season. We want to keep good ambition.
"We lost Riyad Mahrez, who was a very valuable player for us, so it was important to keep our best players and have good additions to the squad.
"We have to prepare for this season with good possibilities."
It has been reported that it would take a world-record bid for a defender, exceeding the £75million Liverpool paid Southampton for Virgil van Dijk, to even tempt Leicester to sell Maguire.
When that was put to Puel, the Frenchman maintained his stance.
"We will see what happens in his future but I am happy to keep Harry with us and I'm happy with his attitude in general. He has had a good mentality and spirit," he said.
"We have had good talks with Harry and with the chairman and we cannot change things just before the first game of the season and just before the end of the transfer window.
"For us it is not possible. It is not serious."