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Leicester’s keep, loan and sell list for this transfer window

By Stanley Challenor

Leicester City players Patson Daka, James Maddison, Harvey Barnes, Luke Thomas, Caglar Soyuncu, Kelechi Iheanacho, Jannik Vestergaard, Boubakary Soumare and Ricardo Pereira (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)
Leicester City players Patson Daka, James Maddison, Harvey Barnes, Luke Thomas, Caglar Soyuncu, Kelechi Iheanacho, Jannik Vestergaard, Boubakary Soumare and Ricardo Pereira (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images) /
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Ademola Lookman of Leicester City with Wesley Fofana and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (Photo by Marc Atkins/Getty Images) /

Ademola Lookman, sign:

Lookman displayed many times in the previous campaign the immense amount of ability and creativity he has, he would be an excellent squad player to have. Although I have expressed how I do not think he is the solution for Leicester’s “right-hand-sided problem” I do, however, think he gives excellent competition for Harvey Barnes on the left.

A permanent move may also be what kickstarts Lookman’s career as it highly likely that the Nigerian internationals seemingly lack of progression in his overall game may solely be due to his nomadic start to his career, never being under the same coach for an elongated period of time could be the cause of this. Another year under Rodgers and everything could fall into place for Lookman, something that of course LCFC will benefit from.

Kelechi Iheanacho, Sell:

This will most likely be the most controversial decision on here considering the emphatic finishing ability and quality that Iheanacho possess’ but hear me out. Although I do believe he has all of the above and even though City’s number “14” nearly single-handedly dragged the Foxes to a Champion’s League place in the 2020/21 season, despite all of this perhaps being true. I think that due the forwards inability to find that consistency that won him Player of the Month at the back end of said season as well as being his most prolific year scoring 12 EPL goals.

There could be an argument made that his sensational run was a result of the absence of fans, not on the ability. I say this because he has also shown flashes of that quality during his entire tenure with the club but not the consistency.

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This accompanied with the fact that ‘Kelz’ does need a second-strike partner in order to flourish and Rodgers’ lack of willingness to plug Iheanacho into a two-man strike force it does seem that the most sensible solution would be to cash in on the 25-year-old. As I do believe he would still conjure a lucrative fee which would provide Rodgers with funds to buy players more suited to his preferred playing-style.