Being rather difficult with AS Roma regarding the potential exit of Riyad Mahrez, Leicester City are also reluctant to see another of their players leave on the cheap.
That man, desperate to exit King Power Stadium before the end of the month, is Nampalys Mendy, who made a grand total of four league appearances last season under both Claudio Ranieri and Craig Shakespeare.
Seeing Bordeaux in Ligue 1 as his ideal landing spot to relaunch a stagnating career, the 25-year-old midfielder is still with the Foxes as things stand, entirely due to their rather head-scratching demands.
That Leicester aren’t keen on just a loan is understandable if they don’t want to run the risk of having the player return next summer, but to ask for, according Sud Ouest on Wednesday evening, €16m isn’t exactly logical.
Bought off the back of a decent season with Nice for around €15.5m, for Leicester to ask for €500k more for Mendy when you take into account what happened last year makes little sense.
This, of course, is far too much for a club of Bordeaux’s means, and it seems the Foxes are going to drastically lower their demands if they want to see the back of the defensive midfielder this summer.
