3 January Premier League transfers Leicester City should’ve hijacked

Leicester City should have gone for Michy Batshuayi

Michy Batshuayi, Chelsea – Crystal Palace, loan:

Everton are a club this writer believes Leicester City should be challenging for quality players in the market. Although, ironically the Toffees are struggling with a wealth of talent.

And the same can now most definitely be said of Crystal Palace with regards to adept incoming talent; the club made another significant signing who the Foxes should have been tracking, Michy Batshuayi, regardless of him not fitting in while in Spain.

Another reason the East Midlands side possibly weren’t monitoring this skilful, natural goalscorer, is the fact he often does not do himself justice by giving indifferent displays. In fact, WhoScored informs us the player has only scored five goals in 27 club appearances in 2018/19.

However, when the journeyman settles and is playing he produces well; Jamie Vardy’s standing at the club in the solo forward role wouldn’t have helped if a loan offer went in, because Batshuayi wouldn’t be guaranteed starts.

While Fantasy Premier League rightly cite Batshuayi’s immediate impact at Palace – assisting former Fox Jeffrey Schlupp’s effort on the Belgian’s debut.

Kelechi Iheanacho is performing poorly all round at present; the Blue Army know he’s capable of instinctive forward finishing and can facilitate too. He had four registered assists in three matches earlier this campaign.

Puel’s only other classified centre-forward on the roster is Shinji Okazaki, who seems to have lost some of his industry in breaking opposition play up, partly due to age perhaps. He never contributed many goals, despite some extremely important ones.

Leicester’s need of sufficient poaching backup is obvious; as well as being a factor which may come back to haunt Puel if he is relieved of duty. That’s if mediocre results carry on, as some speculate.