Leicester City have made a number of signings this summer.
Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri
Former player and current pundit Charlie Nicholas has questioned Leicester City’s decision to spend big on two strikers considering the players they already have at the club, Sky Sports report.
The Foxes shocked all by winning the Premier League title last season, though while their stock shot through the roof, boss Claudio Ranieri strongly hinted no big-name players would join in the summer.
While many felt Leicester carrying on with the tried and tested recruitment process would be the best course of action, their summer signings have subsequently prompted plenty of questions.
Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri
Writing in his column for Sky Sports, Nicholas doesn’t understand what the East Midlands club have tried to do and questioned the need to sign two more strikers with Shinji Okazaki and Jamie Vardy on board.
“Another puzzler is what’s going on at Leicester. I can’t actually work out what they are trying to do. They signed Ahmed Musa and now they’ve signed another striker from Sporting, when they’ve already got Jamie Vardy and Shinji Okazaki,” Nicholas explained.
“It felt like the owners had taken over the transfer dealings on Deadline Day and flexed their financial muscles while Claudio Ranieri slipped away.”
A number of Leicester’s players were heavily linked with exits during the summer, yet to the surprise of most N’Golo Kante was their only major casualty as the midfielder left to join Chelsea.
With the core group still at the club, the Foxes have the potential for another successful campaign yet boss Claudio Ranieri now has a juggling act on his hands with the addition of two more strikers.
Ahmed Musa and Islam Slimani are two superb forward players with differing playing styles – but why would you want to replace the Vardy-Okazaki partnership which fared so well last season?
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