Leicester are employing the same tactic over Ben Chilwell that they used to secure a record fee for Harry Maguire. They stubbornly refused to name a price for England star Maguire last summer.
It meant Manchester United kept bidding more and more before eventually paying £80million for Maguire, making him the world’s most expensive defender.
Now Leicester have adopted the same stance over Chelsea target Chilwell, 23, who Frank Lampard is prioritising. Leicester have also used the tactic before to successfully bag £60m for Riyad Mahrez from Manchester City in 2018.
Foxes owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha is hugely wealthy and is under no financial pressure to sell. But there could come a stage, as with Mahrez and Maguire, that the
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