Jamie Vardy has sensationally followed David Beckham into US football club ownership after buying a minority stake in Rochester Rhinos.
The Leicester striker was due to give more detail on his plans on Tuesday night but it is understood he plans to help the Rhinos, who have not competed since 2017 due to lack of funding, rejoin a league in 2022.
Vardy is believed to have been working on the project for two years as he sees similarities between Rochester – an industrial city about 300 miles north-west of New York – and his home town Sheffield.