Paul Merson believes it will be a 'long season' for Leicester City and Brendan Rodgers in the 2022/23 Premier League if they were to eventually sell Wesley Fofana to Chelsea before the September 1 deadline.
football.london understands that new owner Todd Boehly has already had two bids rejected for a player whose actions after both the Brentford and Arsenal game suggest that he himself wants to join Thomas Tuchel's project at Stamford Bridge. But like every Leicester player over the last five years or so, the Foxes are standing firm on their 'not for sale' stance and would only really consider selling the 21-year-old if a world-record bid was to come in.
Boehly could yet pay the £85m asking price but he is seemingly trying all he can to not eclipse the £80m Man United paid for Harry Maguire. These slow negotiations have led to Leicester's number 3 growing ever-more 'frustrated' at the lack of progress being made with Fofana believing that the second bid adding up to around the £70million mark was a fair one. Ahead of gameweek 3, questions have been raised about Fofana's mindset and mentality with the transfer window obviously affecting his body language and manager Rodgers has admitted to 'private' talks being held this week ahead of a big decision being made on the managers' behalf ahead of their latest Premier League fixture against Southampton.
