{"id":567681,"date":"2020-10-02T07:04:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T11:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=567681"},"modified":"2020-10-02T07:09:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T11:09:50","slug":"leicester-city-sign-wesley-fofana-from-saint-etienne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/02\/leicester-city-sign-wesley-fofana-from-saint-etienne\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester City Sign Wesley Fofana From Saint-Etienne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/leicester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Leicester City<\/a> have confirmed the signing of centre-back Wesley Fofana from Saint-Etienne. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/09\/29\/saint-etienne-confirm-agreement-with-leicester-city-for-wesley-fofana\/\" target=\"_self\">French club confirmed<\/a> that they had reached a deal with the Foxes on Tuesday, and now Leicester have announced the signing of the 19-year-old. He joins for a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1310992089749086212\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported fee of \u20ac40 million<\/a>, a record fee for Saint-Etienne, and has signed a five-year contract.<\/p>\n<h2>Wesley Fofana Signs for Leicester City<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">\ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelcomeWesley?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WelcomeWesley<\/a> \ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yESfJM80f5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/yESfJM80f5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leicester City (@LCFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LCFC\/status\/1311980495572410369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Leicester&#8217;s Centre-Back Hunt<\/h3>\n<p>Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers has been in the market for a centre-back for most of the transfer window. A lack of defensive options has seen Wilfred Ndidi have to fill in at centre-back due to Jonny Evans&#8217; suspension and Daniel Amartey returning from a long-term injury.<\/p>\n<p>With Evans now back, those worries have been eased somewhat, but the chance to add some good-quality depth was there and that&#8217;s why Fofana has come in.<\/p>\n<p>At 19, he is unlikely to play week-in-week-out alongside Caglar Soyuncu but will add another rotation option along with Evans and Wes Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>Leicester also looked to be in for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/burnley\/\" target=\"_self\">Burnley<\/a> defender James Tarkowski, but with both the Foxes and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/west-ham\/\" target=\"_self\">West Ham United<\/a> seemingly dropping out of the race to sign the twice-capped England international, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/leicester-city-transfer-ruled-out-4559196\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he looks set to stay<\/a> with Sean Dyche&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<h3>One Staying and One Going?<\/h3>\n<p>In other Leicester news, John Percy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2020\/10\/01\/leicester-offer-harvey-barnes-new-contract-following-first-england\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Telegraph<\/a> is reporting that the Foxes are set to offer Harvey Barnes a new contract. The youngster only signed a new five-year deal last year, but following his first call-up to the senior England squad, the club are offering him a more lucrative contract.<\/p>\n<p>Mike McGrath, also of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2020\/10\/02\/leeds-united-target-leicester-city-wing-demarai-gray-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Telegraph<\/a>, additionally reports that Demarai Gray could be on his way out of Leicester. Newly-promoted <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/leeds-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Leeds United<\/a> are considering a move for the 24-year-old after their deal for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/bayern-munich\/\" target=\"_self\">Bayern Munich&#8217;s<\/a> Michael Cuisance <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/01\/report-michael-cuisance-fails-leeds-united-medical\/\" target=\"_self\">collapsed due to a failed medical<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"jxC6kc52S3Zw3U83hW5mNA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1192571253\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'jxC6kc52S3Zw3U83hW5mNA',sig:'bOlZbBe-gFeC343jf2pmIcL6BSP7Iwl-ONPRo_DAzso=',w:'594px',h:'422px',items:'1192571253',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester City have confirmed the signing of centre-back Wesley Fofana from Saint-Etienne. The French club confirmed that they had reached a deal with the Foxes on Tuesday, and now Leicester have announced the signing of the 19-year-old. He joins for a reported fee of \u20ac40 million, a record fee for Saint-Etienne, and has signed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":567685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,15,30,3,28],"tags":[127,173,122,40,1718,6608,136],"class_list":["post-567681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ligue-1","category-featured","category-leicester-city","category-news","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-brendan-rodgers","tag-leicester-city","tag-ligue-1","tag-premier-league","tag-saint-etienne","tag-wesley-fofana","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}