As we arrive towards the start of yet another exciting Premier League season, Leicester City shall look to utilize this period to offload redundancy.
A club like City doesn’t have the liberty of utilizing an endless purse. To adapt, develop, and sustain they need to sacrifice redundancy at times to mend their other pressing issues. This season the search for a suitable right-winger was our top priority going into the transfer window.
However, things took a quick turn when Villarreal forward Fer Niño took out Wesley Fofana in our last pre-season friendly with a sinister-looking petulant tackle. Courtesy of which Fofana will be spending time on the sidelines for the rest of this calendar year. Again our priorities changed.
A shift of urgency now inclines in favor of the void at the defensive wall that has is left. But, funds were limited, which meant that we had to look at cheaper options. Furthermore, the desperate need for a right-winger was still screaming somewhere.
Pondering over Jannik Vestergaard meant that the club did not have many funds left to land in a quality right-winger. It generally means LCFC have two options now: first is that we loan a redundant prospect of another club with the option to buy similar to what occurred with Cengiz Ünder.
Or we can sell some of our players who are either not doing very well or have fallen behind the pecking order to gather funds against those sales. The second is a more concrete way of fixing things early on and not taking a risk for another year due to budget constraints. So with that said, let us consider the most realistic options that we can consider for making sales.
The three Leicester City players who may leave
Hamza Choudhury was close to joining Steve Bruce’s Newcastle United earlier in the winter transfer window. Things didn’t materialize as Brendan Rodgers needed help from everything he had to fight tooth and nail for a top-four finish despite the surmounting injuries at the Leicester City camp.
The 23-year-old’s prime position is as a central defensive midfielder only poses a strong case of redundancy into the Foxes squad. With Wilfred Ndidi, Boubakary Soumaré, and Nampalys Mendy already contesting for the same role, Hamza is stuck in a badly-timed situation. Even if he wants to perform more as a central midfielder, the emergence of Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall doesn’t make it any easier.
"“It’s one where the stage he’s at in his career, he’s played enough games, so it’s something where a loan deal isn’t an overly attractive one at this moment in time. If he does go out, it may be to get games. He wants to play, which is natural. He’s got players ahead of him, Wilf Ndidi’s ahead of him as a defensive midfield player, Papy Mendy is ahead of him, so it just brings him down the squad and makes his chances of playing in this season half of the season limited.” “It’s just something that we’re not in a big rush to do, but because of the enquiries over a loan, I just wanted to make it clear that he’s not really a player that we’re overly keen on loaning. If someone is looking to buy him, or sees his qualities to buy then that’s a different matter. We’ll see what January brings on that front.” -Brendan Rodgers on Hamza Choudhury via Leicester Mercury."
To be fair, Choudhury is very young and one from Leicester City’s academy. A loan move looks ideal for the player as well as the club to assess him. If Rodgers thinks to let him off for a loan offer in January, then it is understandable that there are very little to no plans for him at this moment. Rodgers wants to keep him around if things get messy, and he needs to use players as makeshifts if fortune turns unfavorable.
Ayoze Pérez
The performances of Ayoze have not been optimistically bright. There is no sugarcoating the fact that he has struggled for quite a long time now. You can present a lot of cases to defend him. How situations have not been ideal for him to showcase where he used to thrive, but Premier League is rapid.
There is no time for waiting if something doesn’t work out. Pérez does not pose the same threat that the fans fondly remember him. For us, he will only get minutes playing at the right-winger, second striker, and central attacking midfield position, only when Maddison is not playing.
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Neither in which Pérez has been very good. Sure, if we let him leave, the rough patch can end, and he can be back with the clinical offense, but we cannot be sure if or when it will happen.
Dennis Praet
There is no problem with Praet as an individual. The only thing that is not on his side is his luck. Just as things were looking positive for him, he failed to capitalize by riding on the momentum due to an unfortunate injury. That hurt his chances by several folds.
During a period, when he could have earned favors with the gaffer as a regular starter, he was made to sit on the sidelines. Now we have reached the point where it isn’t beneficial for the club and the player to be stagnant here low in the totem pole. This lack of playing time will hurt his chances of representing Belgium in the internationals.
A player needs minutes and opportunities to grow and develop, but at the current oversaturation in the midfield department, things don’t look all that well for the Belgian. He needs to move someplace else if he wants more opportunities. A good prospect from Leicester City’s side as an international player fetches a fair price in the market.