Leicester City can be perfect next step for transfer target making King Power Stadium audition

When Leicester City have a player from Europe on their radar, it is not often they get to see them first hand at the King Power Stadium.

But that is the opportunity that will present itself next week when PSV Eindhoven visit for the first leg of the Europa Conference League first leg. While the eyes of City staff and supporters will concentrate on their own team, they will be taking a look at the Dutch side’s winger Noni Madueke.

City are planning a “healthy shake-up” of their squad this summer to revitalise the group and get them competing in the upper echelons again. As part of that, it’s understood the club want three signings who can come straight into the starting line-up, with a right-sided winger one of the priorities.

Last summer, City were listed as an interested suitor in Madueke, along with Spurs and Wolves, and in terms of what they would be looking for, he ticks a lot of boxes. At only 20, he’s young, and so has big scope for improvement. But that doesn’t mean he’s inexperienced. Despite his youthfulness, he has already played 65 senior matches for PSV, including 20 in European competitions.

He’s clearly talented too, and possesses the right combination of speed and trickery that would be expected of a top-level wide-man. Importantly, he is backing that up with his statistics, and this season is, on average, registering a goal or assist every 115 minutes.

He would offer something different for City given he is left-footed, with all of the other wide players in the squad best on their right, but neither is he limited to the right-hand side, this week linking up with Luke Thomas for England Under-21s as the Young Lions’ left winger.

City are not naive as to base a signing on one performance, but lighting