Report: PL club may be forced to sell ‘sensational’ player, amid rumours Tottenham are considering buying him

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Leicester City may be forced to sell Tottenham Hotspur target James Maddison to get their summer business moving.

The Telegraph report that the Foxes simply have to sell in order to bring new faces to the King Power Stadium now.

The report says that Leicester need to get unwanted players off the wage bill and out of their Premier League squad in order to bring in cash to sign new ones.

But the issue is that their cast-offs are not attracting as much transfer interest as Brendan Rodgers might like.

Leicester may be forced to sell Maddison

That raises the prospect that they will need to sell one of their top players, with Maddison firmly in that category.

Spurs have already got one fellow Premier League club to sell them one of their stars this summer, signing Richarlison from Everton.

Reports in April suggested that Tottenham and Arsenal both wanted Maddison with Antonio Conte a big fan. Leicester meanwhile, were holding out for £60 million for the England international.

And it has been reported that Maddison would be open to joining Tottenham if the opportunity arose, and that Spurs have been tracking him for years now.

Maddison was absolutely back to his best last season, and Rodgers said that he was ‘sensational‘, as Leicester came eighth and reached the UEFA Conference League semi-finals.

Spurs have been doing some impressive summer business and Maddison would be something akin to the icing on top of that particular cake.

One potential issue is that he does not have an obvious role in Conte’s 3-4-3 system, but the Italian is building a squad with different options, and he may want Daniel Levy to test the water regarding Maddison given Leicester’s situation.