Leicester City are interested in signing Wolfsburg talent David Odogu, but face competition from Chelsea for the 17-year-old’s signature.
That’s according to journalist Florian Plettenberg, who says that ‘first talks’ have taken place with Chelsea and Leicester over a potential deal, but they are very much at the early stage.
Odogu is yet to make his senior debut for Wolfsburg but is a regular for their U19 side and has been rising through the ranks of the German national team too, with three appearances for the U16s and 12 for the U17s since making his debut in October last year.
Indeed, he was a World Cup winner with the U17s, and it seems this experience has led him to start developing ideas of moving on in the near future.
According to Plettenberg, his agents are ‘sounding out the market’, aware that their client is ‘ready for a new challenge’ after being frustrated by not being included in Wolfsburg’s winter training camp.
That seems to have sparked a desire to leave, and Leicester and Chelsea are the first to have made moves for him, albeit only preliminary ones at this point.
The latter’s interest certainly isn’t surprising as they appear to be going down the Manchester City route of trying to hoover up talent from across the globe alongside their big spending elsewhere.
Leicester also focused on younger talent in their own rebuild in the summer, bringing in the likes of Tom Cannon (21), Issahaku Fatawu (19), Cesare Casadei (20) and Callum Doyle (19) and perhaps Odogu is the latest name they’d like to add to that list.
