Leicester City are well on their way toward a Premier League return. Here is one to sell and one to buy in Janaury to secure promotion.
Leicester City are currently running away with the Championship this season. Top of the league and only one side within touching distance, Leicester are a good bet to win the division.
The gulf in quality is genuinely huge between other teams and Enzo Maresca and his men.
Up-front is the perfect example, with Maresca having the luxury of choosing Jamie Vardy, Kelechi Iheanacho or Patson Daka.
Three strikers who would star for any other team in the league, but depth is sometimes just overkill with the wages being of better use elsewhere.
Here is one player Leicester should sell, and who they should buy following that…
To sell: Patson Daka
26 minutes played all season, there is practically no point in having such an expensive player in the squad.
Patson Daka clearly isn’t a player Maresca wants or is going to use as he has only featured once all season.
26 minutes in the Carabao Cup against Liverpool is all he has done, so why not cash in once January arrives.
With a market value according to CIES reaching £12.9 million, the funds could be beneficial elsewhere.
Daka was set to depart the King Power on deadline day before a move to Bournemouth fell through.
To buy: Sammie Szmodics
Leicester City could take a page from Burnley’s book by weakening fellow Championship sides at the half-way mark.
No move would weaken a side more than Blackburn Rovers’ Sammie Szmodics.
The Irish international has seven goals and two assists this season in 11 games for Rovers.
The midfielder would come in and face a tough battle to dislodge any of the current starters, but in this form, he’s better than the lot.