New Leicester City contract boost as €10m transfer negotiations underway

Here’s the latest Leicester City news on Saturday, June 25, 2022.

Leicester City midfielder Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall has committed his future to his hometown club by signing a new five-year deal.

The 23-year-old, a revelation in his first full season in City’s senior squad, has penned a deal to 2027, an extension of three years on his previous contract. It comes as a reward for his breakthrough campaign, in which he became an integral part of Brendan Rodgers’ squad and was named young player and players’ player of the year.

After his display off the bench helped earn City a point away at Southampton in December, Dewsbury-Hall started every game bar one in the Premier League thereafter, only missing the defeat at Spurs through injury. He also started all of six of the matches against Rennes, PSV, and Roma in the Europa Conference League, for which he earned a place in the team of the tournament, while Rodgers admitted that his side missed the 23-year-old’s presence for one of the few games he didn’t start, the FA Cup loss at Nottingham Forest.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall wants to reach new heights with Leicester City – and has made it his aim to pull his team-mates up with him.

The homegrown midfielder’s new five-year deal was announced on Friday, a contract that will take the 23-year-old's time with City to more than two decades. He first arrived at the club's academy in 2006.

Over the past six months, Dewsbury-Hall has become an integral part of Brendan Rodgers’ side, the manager praising the midfielder for being a catalyst, his passion and energy sparking more determined performances from the rest of the squad. As City look to climb back up the table and challenge the elite, the Shepshed-raised academy product