Manchester City starlet Roberts set for £10m Leicester move
Patrick Roberts is heading to Leicester City, writes Neil Moxley.The former England Under-20 international will be joining the Foxes in a £10m deal.
Roberts, 21, will be released by Manchester City to smooth the protracted £60m transfer of Riyad Mahrez in the next fortnight.
The former Fulham youngster has been out on loan at Celtic for the past 18 months and the east Midlands club is in the market to add to its firepower.
The playmaker was used by Brendan Rodgers but mainly off the bench as Celtic carried off their seventh successive Scottish Premier League title.
And Roberts, who was a trainee at Craven Cottage before making the move north, will join £25m summer signing James Maddison at the King Power Stadium.
That will go some way towards making up for the loss of former player-of-the-year Mahrez whose exit will leave a huge hole for boss Claude Puel to fill.
But the Frenchman and the club’s Thai owners have backed the manager to plug that gap by splashing the cash on first Maddison and now Roberts.

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