DONE DEAL: Leicester City Sign Kelechi Iheanacho From Manchester City On A Five - Year Deal

The Nigeria international becomes

Leicester’s fourth signing of the summer on

a five-year deal.

Leicester City have signed the striker

Kelechi Iheanacho from Manchester City for

a reported £25m . The 20-year-old signed a

five-year contract on Thursday, having had

a medical at the club’s training ground

earlier in the week.

The deal represents a coup for Craig

Shakespeare while Iheanacho, who was also

a reported target for West Ham earlier this

summer, could make his Leicester debut in

Friday’s friendly against Borussia

Mönchengladbach at the King Power

Stadium.

Iheanacho told to LCFC TV: “It feels good

and I’m happy to be part of this team. I

know the ambition of the team and

speaking with the manager, he let me know

what I need to do – to help the team

achieve what they want. I was convinced

and I’m happy to be here.”

He becomes the fourth new arrival at

Leicester during the close season following

the midfielder Vicente Iborra, the

goalkeeper Eldin Jakupovic and the

defender Harry Maguire.

Iheanacho will wear the No8 shirt and joins

fellow Nigeria internationals Wilfred Ndidi

and Ahmed Musa at the 2016 Premier

League champions.

Shakespeare said:-

“It’s a great signing for us. Kelechi is an

enormously talented player that has shown

a huge amount of promise at every level in

which he’s played. We’ve tracked his

progress for some time, so we know how

much quality he’ll bring to the squad. He’s

young, he’s hungry, he’s ready for the next

stage of his development and I’m delighted

that will be with Leicester City.”

Iheanacho signed a new contract with City

until 2021 at the beginning of last season

but saw his first-team opportunities

curtailed by the arrival of the Brazil

forward Gabriel Jesus in January.

The academy product still made nine starts

and 21 substitute appearances for Pep

Guardiola’s team last term, scoring nine

goals. In total he scored 21 goals in 64

games in all competitions since making his

debut for City in 2015, while he has scored

six goals in 10 appearances for Nigeria.