Gary Lineker has said Wesley Fofana's potential move to Chelsea is "unfair" on Leicester City as the Blues close in a deal. The 21-year-old has been heavily linked with a move to Stamford Bridge this summer as Thomas Tuchel looks to bolster his backline following the exits of Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen.
football.london understand that Fofana feels as if Leicester City are trying to price him out of a move by requesting a world-record fee for his services. It's believed that the Frenchman has already agreed personal terms over a move to west London, but the Blues have seen a handful of offers turned down by the Foxes until now.
According to French outlet RMC, via GFFN, Chelsea and Leicester have reached an agreement for the defender. However, with just a few days until the summer transfer window slams shut, Fofana is yet to officially depart the King Power Stadium and Lineker feels as if an exit is unfair on his former club.
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"A bit worried, a bit worried," Lineker told David Seaman on the Seaman Says podcast when asked how he felt about Leicester's state of affairs. "Financially the club is struggling. I think the owner's business isn't doing brilliantly at the minute - whether that has an impact on it, I don’t know.
"If you look at our squad it’s really good but what happens is this dreadful month of August," the Match of the Day host added. "All your good players because of Leicester’s good recruitment so the likes of Fofana, [Youri] Tielemans and [James] Maddison have been getting interest from a lot of clubs.
"That plays with players' heads and then they get in a situation where the club don’t know where you are, you don’t know which players you’re going to have in September. I just think it’s so unfair the way the transfer window works for clubs like Leicester, if Leicester lost say Fofana and Tielemans - which is a possibility, especially Fofana by the looks of it - they’ve got no time to really replace them either then that leaves them in a pickle."
There is little under a week left in the summer transfer window which - naturally - makes any deal difficult to engineer with the new season underway. A spanner has also been thrown in the works, with Chelsea and Leicester up against one another this weekend.
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