Brendan Rodgers has called on Leicester City to sell anyone who doesn’t want to be at the club during the January transfer window — including the seven players who are out of contract in the summer.
Youri Tielemans, Caglar Soyuncu, Daniel Amartey, Ayoze Perez, Nampalys Mendy, Jonny Evans and Ryan Bertrand will all become free agents in the summer if Leicester do not extend their respective deals.
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And Rodgers has said he is open to the idea of selling any of the aforementioned players if they want to move on from the King Power Stadium.
Speaking ahead of Leicester’s third-round FA Cup tie against League Two side Gillingham said when asked if any of the seven players could be sold: “Well, some of that would be a club discussion really.
“I think that if someone doesn’t want to be here or someone wants too much money to be here, we have to be brave enough to say ‘listen, thank you very much and on you go’, because we are not a club with masses of resources that can facilitate every single players need, especially from a financial side.
“A number of these guys are down to their last year. We said before we’d like them to stay but there has to be a point in time when what they want is too demanding for us as a club and if the time is right, they have to move on, then we have to do that and then look forward.”
Rodgers also revealed a few of the younger players at the club could be loaned out before Leicester’s next Premier League game against Nottingham Forest on January 14.
He added: “There may be players who want to play but in order for that teams have to want those players, so it is a bit of both.
“There may be some young players who need some loans, but we will see as we go through the window.”
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