The Nigeria international will spend yet another season deputizing at the King Power Stadium, an unpalatable fate for a player of his talent
Rachid Ghezzal, Shinji Okazaki and Islam Slimani. All forwards who, in the just-concluded transfer window, have traded inactivity at Leicester City for a chance at regular football.
In the case of Slimani, he has looked and played like a man eager to make up for lost time since moving to AS Monaco in Ligue 1. Signed following the Foxes’ improbable title triumph in 2016, the Algeria international has found playing time difficult to come by, unable to either form an effective partnership with, or displace Jamie Vardy.