Leicester City had a January transfer window to forget.
Ruud van Nistelrooy had hoped for at least four new additions, however, Leicester only managed to bring one fresh face through the door in the shape of Woyo Coulibaly.
PSR issues meant City couldn’t bring in any permanent signings without sales on top of the £10m they received for Tom Cannon.
Writing in his programme notes ahead of the Arsenal game, Leicester owner Khun Top said: “January was a challenging month for us in the transfer window, where our ability to strengthen was limited by our PSR position.
“We were very pleased to sign Woyo Coulibaly and we explored a number of options to make further additions to Ruud’s squad during the month, but the space available in our PSR calculations did not enable us to add the further quality we all felt would improve the team.”
Leicester couldn’t bring in any domestic loan players either as Facundo Buonanotte and Odsonne Edouard were filling the only two spots.
And with that said, it’s just emerged that they tried to offload one of them last month.
Leicester tried to cancel Odsonne Edouard’s loan
According to The Telegraph, Leicester did try to cancel Odsonne Edouard’s season-long loan spell in January, but Crystal Palace knocked back their request.
Palace, who signed him for £14m in 2021, were only prepared to bring him back to Selhurst Park if they could make an instant sale.
That was on the cards at one point, with Atalanta United bidding £15m for Edouard, however, it fell through once the Leicester loanee rejected a move to the MLS.
Despite not appearing for the Foxes since November, it’s understood the 27-year-old has remained very professional in training.
Van Nistelrooy explains Edouard absence
Van Nistelrooy recently explained why Edouard has been absent from the matchday squads and he insisted that it’s simply down to the level of competition up front.
“He’s competing for two places on the bench with Jamie and Patson [Daka], and so far I’ve been picking the first two,” the Dutchman said.
“He’s the one who is competing. If I see in training sessions that he can do something better or that he will be of more value than one of the other two, then he will be in the squad and will make minutes.
“That’s the competition. The ones who don’t play, they need to fight for their spot. The ones who play protect their spot.
“The ones who are not in the squad, they fight to be in. That’s what drives us and makes our squad better.”