Arsenal 'convinced' about Leicester City transfer as player receives ultimatum

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Jannik Vestergaard will miss out on a place at the World Cup unless he leaves Leicester City this summer.

The centre-back is away with Denmark for their Nations League games this month, but his international manager Kasper Hjulmand has said he will not take any players to Qatar unless they play regularly for their clubs over the first few months of the new season.

For Vestergaard, that means leaving the King Power Stadium, given how far he has fallen down City’s centre-back pecking order, below even midfielder Wilfred Ndidi. Last summer’s £15million signing from Southampton did not play a single minute of the club’s final 16 Premier League games, failing to even make the bench for the last nine.

While Hjulmand has not specifically said his players need transfers, he warned that they must be sharp going into November, when the World Cup begins, and that means regular game-time. Vestergaard has been named by Danish media as one of a few players he was referring to.

Arsenal are "convinced" that they can sign Leicester City star Youri Tielemans with the hope that an offer of £25m could persuade those at the King Power Stadium to part with their key asset.

The North London outfit have been linked intensely with a move for the Foxes ace having impressed when playing for Brendan Rodgers' side over the past few years.

Tielemans, 25, has scored 24 goals and contributed another 24 in assists from 158 appearances for the Foxes since signing from Monaco - initially on a loan deal - back in January 2019.

The attacking midfielder still has around a year to go until his current deal at the King Power Stadium expires and, according to the