Leicester should sell Demarai Gray in transfer window

With Demarai Gray showing no desire, dribbling skills or intense effort against his former club, it’s probably time Leicester City sold him.

If you think it’s easy or simple for a Leicester City fan such as myself to suggest that the club sell a perennially promising yet underperforming player, you’re incorrect. Foxes of Leicester want the best for the Foxes. Full stop.

Buying and selling at a football team must balance as well as purchasers and sellers in any business. Yet in sport you want to retain the best, most compatible commodities that come into your possession. That is if they are succeeding or are likely to.

For four long years us Blue Army folk believed Demarai Gray would realise his potential on Filbert Way. He always appeared worth encouraging, while continuing faith and indefinite backing.

Alas, that championing seems to have been futile, as the Birmingham-born man has yet to show anything like Premier League staying quality. When he starts multiple games he fizzles out. Whilst featuring as a substitute, the majority of his displays have been underwhelming.

Leicester City should sell Demarai Gray

Though there are some truly exceptional goals and examples of superb dexterity with the ball – it is, nevertheless, too little too often. Regardless of Gray’s natural talents along with undoubted elite aptitude, he hasn’t exhibited it enough and may now have to showcase it elsewhere in order to return to a side of Leicester City’s contemporary repute.

The main issue for the Foxes if they decide to sell the winger is that he may now be unable to command a fee as high as was offered by Bournemouth in 2017: a reported £25 million. At present he is low on Brendan Rodgers’ pecking order, hence the perceived decrease in value.

As Brian Dick of Birmingham Live put it: “Fancy a confidence-boosting loan [Back to Birmingham City] next season Dimmy? The training ground’s not far from your house”.