Is Dennis Praet hinting at a transfer away from Leicester?

Dennis Praet is currently a talented forgotten man at Leicester City, though the Belgium international may not be a Fox for much longer.

You wouldn’t be able to blame Praet for asking his agent about interest over the summer, or angling for a move through Brendan Rodgers and the hierarchy at Leicester. That’s because the Belgian is good enough to walk into at least half of all Premier League sides. If not more.

This season, despite a role early on, Praet hasn’t featured that much especially of late: the midfielder was an unused substitute for the last six games and has only begun one match since March after recovering from a hamstring injury. A player of this calibre, who is traveling with Roberto Martinez’s Red Devils to Euro2021 and considered part of their plans, needs game-time.

Even though Leicester are a team and club on the up, regardless of not attaining Champions League football for 2021/22, Praet may think himself above being a bench warmer on Filbert Way. He wants to start, whichever outfit he finds him himself at, as he clearly illustrated in a recent interview.

Foxes of Leicester is not suggesting the player will depart the King Power team, but it is a definite possibility. Unless, perhaps, compatriot Youri Tielemans leaves a spot available in the XI, which has also been speculated:

"“It is of course not easy to fight back into a team that is doing quite well. In the past few weeks, I didn’t take much playing time. Of course that’s always a shame and painful for a football player, because you just want to play.“…This season I mainly played as a 10. For that position I am in competition with James Maddison.“The regular midfield with Tielemans, Wilfred Ndidi and Maddison is of course there. It really is a struggle to get a place there.”– Dennis Praet, via LCFC Live"

What’s next for Leicester City after disastrous final day of EPL

This upcoming off-season/pre-season is vital to the development/evolution of LCFC; retaining prominent squad members is still ahead in importance over signing quality. Yet after a disappointing league ending, much of the more vocal, uniformed section of the fan base will be in uproar if significant incomings do not materialise.

Nevertheless, the King Power club manage not to break the bank and still be extremely successful: making astutely astronomical sales as well as wise and prudent purchases. The aforementioned supporters would do well to remember what it was like playing in the third English division only around a decade ago – if they were even part of the Blue Army then!