It’s all gone quiet on the Leicester City transfer front but an expert admits that he is surprised to see them go for Sam Greenwood.
Leicester were linked with Greenwood earlier this week after reports suggested that Daniel Farke would allow him to leave Leeds United this summer.
The Foxes are yet to make a signing in the summer transfer window and have big shoes to fill after Jamie Vardy left Leicester at the end of last season.
Due to Leicester’s possible points deduction, the Foxes will have to wheel and deal in the market and Greenwood could be considered one of those.
Sam Greenwood on the ball for Preston North End during a Championship game against Coventry City
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Expert can’t imagine Sam Greenwood joining Leicester City
According to EFL Analysis’ Chief Football Correspondent Graeme Bailey, reports revealing that Greenwood has a release clause of £1.5m are true.
Despite Bailey believing that Leeds may require even less than the £1.5m release clause for his signature, the idea of Greenwood making the move to the East Midlands is one he’d be ‘amazed’ to see.
He said: “He has a release clause of about £1.5m, but I don’t think it’ll be needed. I don’t see him at Leicester at all to be honest. He had a very middling season at Preston and I’d be amazed if one of the top Championship clubs took him.
“I’d be very shocked if one of the major promotion contenders took him. One of the relegated teams [from the Premier League] especially. There’s a reason he was at Preston last season. He proved that was just about his level, playing for a relegation contender. I don’t think he goes from being OK at Preston to playing for Leicester. I’d be pretty staggered.”
Sam Greenwood wouldn’t be a signing authorised by Ruud van Nistelrooy
It may come as a surprise to see that the Foxes are looking for players when the future of their manager still remains in doubt.
Ruud van Nistelrooy’s future remains undecided by Leicester at the moment. If Greenwood was to join and immediately lose the manager that signed him, but Bailey believes that the interest comes from someone higher up.
Ruud van Nistelrooy during Wolves vs Leicester
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“It wouldn’t be a Ruud signing. Ruud probably won’t be there. So that tells us who the signing would be from,” he added. “But again that’s no different in many clubs, almost every English club now is run by the sporting director.”