Chelsea target told to remain at Leicester City for another year

Former Arsenal star, Martin Keown, in a statement, has advised Leicester City’s Wesley Fofana against his transfer to Chelsea for now.

Fofana has been linked with moves to the west London side this summer, with the reports suggesting he has reached a personal agreement with the Blues.

But Keown thinks the France International needs to wait another year before leaving the King Power Stadium.

Fofana was missing in Leicester’s Premier League fixture against Southampton on Saturday, which made speculate that the Foxes may have reached an agreement with Chelsea.

“Is Leicester always a stepping stone for players within their careers, even for their manager?” Arsenal legend Keown questioned on Friday’s White and Jordan show.

“It’s not a good look, in terms of they’ve been very successful in what they’ve done and this is a sort of period of consolidation, almost, and hanging on to what they’ve got might be a victory.

“Clearly he [Leicester City manager, Brendan Rodgers] is going to have to sell somebody. But if that happens so late in the window who does he go and buy now if Fofana leaves for all that money?

“But the success of Fofana is down to Brendan, so there’s a little bit of loyalty here. He’s trying to keep the player calm, he doesn’t want him to overreact.

“If the player says outright” look, I want to go, that’s it, I sincerely hope he doesn’t do that. He will be a top player but I think he just needs to stay there for another year.”