If you’ve been paying attention to what is happening to Leicester City loanees abroad, you’ll be aware that Dennis Praet, despite suffering a number of injuries at Torino, is a player the Serie A side would like to keep.
However, his fitness issues have made the Italians wary of making the move permanent this season, which is why their preference would be to renew the loan first.
This is something ToroNews look at on Wednesday, explaining the Belgian’s future is ‘one of the hot topics to work on’ for the Turin club.
It’s made clear he ‘left a good impression this season’, and the team are ‘trying to find the trick to be able to confirm the player without exercising’ the €15m option to buy.
This why their idea ‘is to extend the loan, inserting an obligation to buy in 2023 subject to certain conditions’.
The website delve into this, and reveal Torino would be happy to pay Leicester the money on two conditions, with the first being ‘linked to attendance, with a number that could be around 25 appearances’.
This would protect them in case injuries strike again and he doesn’t feature enough.
The second would be ‘linked to the possible qualification for a European cup next season’, because this would bring them extra money to cover any costs, even if he doesn’t play 25 times due to injury.
However, the €15m agreed to last summer would need to be reduced, and that’s why Torino are ‘trying to lower the price’.
As for Leicester, it’s said there was ‘an opening’ from the Foxes’ part to ‘renegotiate the player’s stay in Italy’, because he would like ‘to remain in Turin under the orders of Ivan Juric’.
At the end of the day, if Brendan Rodgers’ side can make money from this deal, whether it be this year or the next, it’s still better than him sitting around at King Power Stadium playing the odd game.
