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.
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.
