£8m man saw Southampton move collapse, now he’ll join Leicester instead

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Serie A goalkeeper Bartlomiej Dragowski is close to sealing an £8 million January move to Leicester City after Premier League rivals Southampton missed out on the Poland international, reporter Tomas Wlodarczyk tells Meczyki. 

The Danny Ward experiment has most certainly failed.

With every dropped cross, every one-v-one battle lost, Leicester’s decision to throw their weight behind the former Liverpool back-up – following Kasper Schmeichel’s move to Nice – begins to slide further away from ‘masterstroke’ and into ‘madness’ territory. 

No team in the Premier League have conceded more goals than Ward’s Leicester (22). The Wrexham-born 29-year-old is also the worst-performing shot-stopper in the division for ‘expected goals’ conceded. Simply put, he’s let in five more than he really should have at this stage of the season. 

January, then, cannot come soon enough.  

Bartlomiej Dragowski could join Leicester after Southampton interest

Leicester, Wlodarczyk explains, are set to trigger the £8 million release clause in Bartlomiej Dragowski’s Spezia contract. A deal is reportedly close; the one-time Southampton target seemingly on his way to England a few months after being denied the chance to become Ralph Hasenhuttl’s number one at St Mary’s. 

“Southampton have been watching Dragowski for several years,” says Mariusz Kulesza, the 25-year-old’s agent. “But, unfortunately, the transfer failed due to the lack of a work permit.”

According to Wlodarzyck, Dragowski should qualify this time around. That may be the result of the ex-Fiorentina glovesman has become a key part of the Polish set-up.

He doubled his tally of international caps during the recent Nations League clash with Belgium. A game in which Dragowski impressed, despite finding himself on the end of a lopsided 6-1 scoreline. 

Dragowski once set a record for the most saves in a single Serie A game during a loan spell at Empoli. He only joined Spezia in August, meanwhile, but looks set to be on the move again.