Leicester Metropolis have accomplished the signing of artistic midfielder Bilal El Khannouss from Belgian membership Genk for a payment within the area of £21m. The teenager has penned a four-year take care of the newly promoted Premier League facet.
Bilal El Khannouss received the Belgian Professional League’s Younger Participant of the Season award within the 2023/24 season for his exploits with Genk, the place he registered three targets and 6 assists in 37 league appearances. He was additionally a part of the Morocco squad that bagged the Bronze medal on the Olympic video games in Paris, France, earlier this summer season.
The Belgium-born expertise, who additionally represented Morocco on the 2022 World Cup in Qatar as they shocked the onlookers by reaching the semi-finals, moved to Genk from Anderlecht in 2022. The 20-year-old made 51 appearances throughout all competitions for Genk final season, catching the attention along with his performances within the gap behind the striker.
“I’m very completely happy. Leicester Metropolis is an enormous Membership in England and it’s at all times a dream for a younger man like me to play within the Premier League so I’m very excited and I hope to attain massive issues right here,” El Khannouss advised Leicester Metropolis’s official web site.
“I talked with the Supervisor, and I instantly had a superb feeling with the Membership. I’m actually excited to satisfy my team-mates, to make nice issues with them and I hope win lots of video games too.”
Having turn out to be one of the thrilling abilities in Belgium’s top-flight soccer, Leicester Metropolis can be delighted to have signed El Khannouss for a paltry payment of round £21m.
Leicester Metropolis’s precedence lies in securing top-flight security
Leicester Metropolis received the Championship title underneath Enzo Maresca and subsequently secured promotion to the highest flight in Could. Nonetheless, the membership misplaced Maresca to Chelsea when the West London membership got here calling for his signature, and the Foxes appointed Steve Cooper to exchange the Italian.
Whereas the appointment didn’t go down nicely in sure sections of the fanbase as a consequence of Steve Cooper beforehand managing bitter rivals Nottingham Forest, it’s a secure wager from the Leicester Metropolis house owners as a result of Englishman’s nous and expertise of Premier League soccer.
Upon arriving on the King Energy Stadium, Cooper’s firstly precedence can be to assist the membership preserve its top-flight standing. As well as, he can be eager to play an thrilling, attacking model of soccer to entertain the followers while selling younger abilities—which he has performed all through his managerial profession.
The Foxes haven’t had a fantastic begin to the 2024/25 season, selecting up only a level from two video games. Subsequent up is the Midlands derby in opposition to Unai Emery’s Aston Villa and Cooper’s facet can be determined to get their first win of the brand new marketing campaign.
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