Birmingham City veteran Troy Deeney has claimed Harry Maguire's agent laid into him as a result of a talkSPORT interview.

Deeney, who was playing for Watford in 2020, singled out Maguire after other players such as Paul Pogba were being criticized for the club having a poor season.

Deeney had been working as a talkSPORT pundit for a while, but his words did not go down well with Maguire's management.

“I was at Watford when his agent called me," he told Ben Foster's Fozcast podcast.

“I was speaking [on talkSport] about the leadership, about Harry Maguire, about David De Gea - about all the senior guys, why is it always Paul Pogba because it was always him getting battered early doors. That's all I said.

“I get to training and my phone is ringing from a number I don't know. The same number called two or three times so I thought, "there must be a problem here".

“I picked it up. It's Harry Maguire's agent, 'You can't do this, you can't do that. You wouldn't say it to Harry's face'. And I was like 'hold on, one second, let's rewind. I have said this, I didn't say that. I would say it to Harry's face because I've got no problem'."