FOXES ON HUNT Leicester prepare transfer bid for Swansea’s £20m-rated Joe Rodon after Spurs offered just £7m

LEICESTER have joined the race for Swansea defender Joe Rodon — but want to wait to buy him.

Posted Sunday, October 11, 2020 by Thesun.co.uk

The Welsh club are pondering a sale before the domestic transfer window shuts this week.

FOXES ON HUNT Leicester prepare transfer bid for Swansea’s £20m-rated Joe Rodon after Spurs offered just £7m
Leicester are planning a bid for Swansea's £20m rated Joe Rodon Credit: PA:Press Association

But Foxes boss Brendan Rodgers would prefer to swoop in January or next summer.

Rodgers has just captured young Frenchman Wesley Fofana from Saint Etienne and wants to bed him in before signing another central defender.

But Rodon would like to play in the Premier League as soon as possible.

Tottenham have bid £7million plus extras for the 22-year-old but will have to increase that dramatically as Swansea are looking for around £20m.

That figure has increased since Everton signed Ben Godfrey from Norwich, with the Swans feeling Rodon’s price should be close to that figure.

West Ham have also got a lingering interest, as have Sheffield United.

But the Blades may instead go for Huddersfield’s Terence Kongolo.

On Friday, it emerged Leicester were the ONLY club to vote against proposals to charge fans an extra £14.95 to watch Premier League games in the coming weeks.

Prem sides - who have just spent £1.24BILLION in the transfer market - have agreed to put 15 matches behind an extra paywall.

On top of subscriptions to Sky Sports and BT Sport, hard-up supporters are being asked to shell out an extra £14.95 each time their team is not picked by broadcasters.

With fans not allowed into grounds amid a health and financial crisis, league and television bosses had previously agreed to allow every game to go out live around the country.

Some were even made free-to-air via the BBC - in a move widely welcomed by fans during the coronavirus pandemic.