Leicester City will reportedly make a £14 million bid for Andros Townsend after he scored six Premier League goals for Crystal Palace last season.
Could Andros Townsend be the first player Brendan Rodgers signs for Leicester City?
The Mirror reported over the weekend that Rodgers’s Foxes were set to make a £14 million bid for the Crystal Palace winger, who arguably enjoyed the most consistent Premier League season of his career under Roy Hodgson in 2018/19.
The former Newcastle and Tottenham flyer scored a career-best six top flight strikes – including that Goal of the Season winner which roared into the net at the Etihad Stadium in mid-December.
And Rodgers, who has worked with goalscoring wingers throughout his career from Scott Sinclair to Raheem Sterling, could have been won over by the England international’s rapid pace and eye for the spectacular.
But while Rodgers has done very little wrong since taking over Leicester in February, breathing fresh life into a team that became increasingly stale under Claude Puel’s pragmatism, it doesn’t seem as if Townsend would be a particularly popular addition at the King Power Stadium.
Perhaps so many years of flattering to deceive have finally caught up with a player who has never really lived up to his vast potential – the odd wondergoal winner against Manchester City notwithstanding.
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