Funds must be made available for Leicester to sign player amid defence crisis

Transfer funds must be made available for Leicester City in order for the Foxes to sign a player amid another season-derailing defence crisis.

For some reason the Leicester hierarchy does not like to invest in new players during the January transfer window. Well, I sort of know why but I don’t think the excuse is as justifiable as some suggest: an inflated market with higher price tags halfway through a season due to sellers’ awareness of buyers’ desperation.

If the desiring clubs were not eagerly seeking deals – they would wait until the summer, basically. Advantage can be asserted here. Although, remember what people claimed about Virgil Van Dijk’s £70million fee – sometimes it is worth it whatever.

While we know there is a limit to what the exceptionally wonderful King Power group will invest, they may lose some of the hard-earned top tier ground made in the last ten years if proper investment is not made. That statement particularly goes for another world-class centre-back being added as soon as possible.

And the status of LCFC’s contemporary collective of centre-halves is concerning; through almost no fault of recruitment, Jannik Vestergaard aside. Wesley Fofana is still injured, Jonny Evans has recurrences and new issues monthly, Dan Amartey is on early international duty.

To be honest, the less said about Caglar Soyuncu’s campaign the better; the Turk is also apparently a fitness worry at present. Even with Fofana returning eventually, it feels as though acquiring another central defender is essential. Yet the prospect is minimal, whilst a return of Vestergaard if needed is the gift City fans can probably look forward to for Christmas.

Of course, knowing our luck, an additional defensive man will arrive then all the others will suddenly become available and the squad is saturated. One could always be offloaded. I just feel that this scenario is preferably to plummeting and the revenue that would be lost in the that predicament. Better to have surplus team deficit.

Trip to Liverpool for Leicester City

At the time of writing, Wednesday afternoon, the League Cup quarter-final between the Foxes and Liverpool at Anfield is set to be carried out. A continued worry over the covid outbreak threatened to derail plans to carry out the fixture, and the subsequent Premier League Boxing Day gameweek. However both sets of games are going ahead at the moment.

Reds boss Jurgen Klopp is very likely to use many of his periphery personal, including Tyler Morton, who looks as though he’ll be absolutely steamrollered by Wilfred Ndidi if playing. Though first impressions and looks can be deceiving.

Meanwhile, Brendan Rodgers is expected to deploy a ‘stronger team’ than his Merseyside rivals and former outfit. Leicester have become a very decent domestic ‘cup side’ under the Northern Irishman, and the Blue Army will want that to continue. Hence the predicted heavy first team involvement.