Fans may be pleasantly surprised with a new signing: Leicester City theory
Hopefully Leicester City fans will be pleasantly surprised with a new signing in the current transfer window; despite Foxes boss Claude Puel saying it is very unlikely:
At times of hardship on the pitch, criticism off it – and of course devastation not long ago – there are occasionally mood raisers from great clubs such as Leicester City: free gifts for supporters; or even a new unexpected and significant signing.
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The trouble with attempting to harpoon a noteworthy January signing is that the best talent is not on offer unless at extortionate rates – due to their teams requiring their services midway through a campaign. Not to mention, if a club target individual players expect them to be forced to pay higher than valuation.
Other late Foxes signings
On August 8 before the transfer window shut in the summer of 2018, Leicester brought in Caglar Soyuncu and Filip Benkovic on the penultimate day. Rachid Ghezzal also came in late then too. We all know about the last-minute nature of Adrien Silva’s arrival in 2017 – he did not feature in the team until 2018. Islam Slimani was another bought as the window closed.
This leads us to believe another expensive player may arrive ahead of February 2019. Yet at the moment the Foxes are expected to only sign someone of a lesser reputation. Hopefully for us faithful it’ll be a gem like N’golo Kante, Riyad Mahrez or Jamie Vardy, in that case.
— Foxes of Leicester (@FoxesofLCFC) January 25, 2019
Creative midfielder, striker or right-back for Leicester City
Silva is reportedly now staying at Leicester City until the end of the season per Sky Sports. Maybe now he will get a chance to fill the void still left from departed creative central midfielder Danny Drinkwater.
There are strikers available all around the world; Jamie Vardy needs competition for his place. That will surely increase the potency in attack or force the manager to alter a failing formation. If Ricardo Pereira is to be used as a winger, it seems Danny Simpson is not now competent enough as a Premier League right-back anymore; while Daniel Amartey never has been.
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To be completely honest, club representatives – Claude Puel for example – often say one thing in press conferences and interviews and do another; often the opposite. Watch this space, and turn your Twitter notifications on for Foxes of Leicester.
If the European qualification aspirations are realistic, Leicester should rival clubs like Everton, West Ham United and even Watford – who have a quality, underrated squad – for their impressive transfer buys and interests. There are some mediocre squad members at the King Power Stadium or on loan who are not needed. Selling them creates funds and decreases wages to obtain consequential players of a higher quality.
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Managers like Puel will occasionally, intentionally intend to throw journalists off the scent of incoming movements. Obviously this is pure conjecture from FoL, educated speculation none the less; but only time will tell around January 31.