After winning the Championship and getting promoted, Leicester City reportedly focused on strengthening Enzo Maresca’s team in preparation for their Premier League comeback.
Despite winning promotion, the Foxes are in a tough situation because of their Premier League Financial Fair Play issues. Although the choice did not negatively impact their Championship season, they may lose points the following year, which would provide them the worst possible start to their immediate return to the top division. Furthermore, the fee has made them more cautious while adhering to the Premier League’s sustainability and profit regulations.
Having said that, the King Power will need to find a method to bolster Maresca’s assault with the impending exits of Jamie Vardy and Kelechi Iheanacho. Given his status as one of the greatest players to have ever played for the team, the former will be especially challenging to replace if he left. But his possible successor is an expert at finding the back of the net.
GiveMeSport reports that Leicester City is getting ready to make their first bid to capture Blackburn Rovers’ Sammie Szmodics this summer in an effort to give the most recent Golden Boot winner in the Championship a well-earned promotion to the Premier League.
This season, despite playing for a team that was fighting for relegation until the very end of the season, he lit up the Championship as an aggressive midfielder who can also play center forward. And if Leicester can work through the FFP regulations to finalize a transaction this summer, then this is the ideal opportunity to finish a move to the Premier League at the age of 28.
Acquiring a player of Szmodics’ caliber would undoubtedly help the Foxes prevent an early return to the Championship the following year.
Ready for the Premier League is “Great” Szmodics.
While some may quickly point out the disparity in quality between the Championship and the highest leagues, former Coventry star Viktor Gyokeres demonstrated that true goal scorers are more than capable of making the leap, emerging at Sporting CP this season as one of the best strikers in Europe.
Now, should the Foxes pull off a successful move, Szmodics might do the same with Leicester. There’s no need to search any farther than the Blackburn man for the heir to Vardy’s golden boots.
It should come as no surprise that Szmodics earned accolades all season long, especially from former Blackburn manager Jon Dahl Tomasson, given his stellar play: “I believe he’s been incredibly good for Rovers after Christmas last season, and after the summer break,He has excelled greatly.
He added those objectives as well.We always knew he can score goals, but he’s not used to playing a lot of games at this level. He played with Peterborough, but not frequently. This season, I think he’s been incredibly good for Rovers. He is playing with such confidence and taking on a senior player role that it is amazing how he is scoring goals.