Leicester City Opinion: Foxes should offload Nampalys Mendy in the summer
According to claims from Turkish news outlet Fotomac, Galatasaray are interested in signing Leicester City midfielder Nampalys Mendy in the summer.
The same report claims that Fatih Terim’s side are on the lookout for a replacement for their on-loan midfielder and the Super Lig giants have identified Mendy as a potential replacement.
Mendy, who made his move to the King Power Stadium from Ligue 1 club Nice back in the summer of 2016, has struggled to live up to the expectations at Leicester and the Foxes might be tempted to cash in on another of their midfielders following the departure of Adrien Silva and Vicente Iborra in January.
After failing to impress in his first season in the Premier League and spending the entire 2017-18 campaign on loan at Nice, the 26-year-old established himself as a regular under former manager Claude Puel earlier in the season.
The former French youth international has started 23 games for the Foxes in the Premier League this term, with all of those coming under Puel.
Mendy, though, has found regular minutes hard to come by under new manager Brendan Rodgers, with the former Liverpool and Celtic boss preferring a 4-4-1-1 formation featuring Wilfried Ndidi and Youri Tielemans in central midfield.
With Tielemans making a massive impact since his arrival in January, the 26-year-old has failed to start a single Premier League game under Rodgers and his involvement has been limited to a bit-part role only.
To put things into perspective, Leicester City should grab this opportunity with both hands and cash in on Nampalys Mendy to raise valuable funds to invest improve other areas of the squad. .
Mendy enjoyed a prolonged run in the first team under Puel earlier in the season but he was a part of a rather pedestrian-looking Leicester midfield that lacked any sort of creativity. The Foxes were criticized for being listless and disjoint under their former manager and a lot of it was down to Mendy’s failure to make much of an impact in the midfield.
Noted for his tenacity and high levels of stamina, the Frenchman did a good job in moving the ball around but it was quite apparent that he didn’t have the quality on the ball to set his team on the front foot.
Someone like Tielemans has changed the whole complexion of Leicester’s midfield with his passing and vision and it is a no-brainer that the Belgian is head and shoulders above the Frenchman in terms of quality.
The Foxes can also call upon the services of the young and promising Hamza Choudhury and Daniel Amartey, both of whom are very much capable of playing in central midfield. Matty James has missed the entire season due to an injury and he has turned into a bit of a forgotten figure at the club but one would expect him to be back in the reckoning next season.
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Signing Tielemans permanently should be a top priority for Rodgers in the summer and offloading Mendy might make his job a little bit easier. The Foxes need to move on from mediocre players like Mendy if they truly want to get themselves back into the upper echleons of the Premier League under their new manager.
