Although Wout Faes has done a grand job of stepping in after a last-minute transfer to fill the void of Wesley Fofana’s sale to Chelsea, Leicester City are still looking for a centre-back.
That’s because Jonny Evans is 35 and currently injured, while both Jannik Vestergaard and Caglar Soyuncu are set to leave the club on a free in the summer, leaving Brendan Rodgers with the aforementioned Belgian and Harry Souttar as viable long-term options.
Daniel Amartey can also do a job there, but the general consensus is Leicester will need at least one new centre-back in the summer, and that man could be Peer Schuurs.
The Dutchman has greatly impressed at Torino since his transfer from Ajax in the summer, and having only paid €9m for him, the Serie A side could make a huge profit after just one year.
That’s because many Premier League sides, including Leicester, have taken notice of his ability, and could try and buy him in the summer.
This is what Inter Live claim on Friday, explaining the player is ‘destined’ to end up in England’s top-tier, and his exit is ‘inevitable’.
The idea would be, if he were to be sold, to bring in at least €35m, with the hope of an auction being triggered, at which point ‘it could even reach €40m’.
Inter Milan would have liked Schuurs to replace Stefan de Vrij in the long run, but ‘the competition is scary’, and the ‘first €35m assault could come from Leicester’.
Manchester United, Liverpool and Tottenham are also named as clubs that could follow the Foxes in bidding for the 23-year-old, which is why Serie A sides are likely to stay away.
