Leicester City should keep touting their stars’ Champions League potential as transfer blueprint
Ruud van Nistelrooy has said that Bilal El Khannouss has the qualities to eventually be a Champions League player and that shouldn’t be something that Leicester City hide
The Championship is of a greater concern to Leicester City than the Champions League right now, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have players capable of playing on Europe’s biggest stage.
Ruud van Nistelrooy has not been shy in saying that it’s where attacking midfielder Bilal El Khannouss is heading.
“That’s the challenge for him at this young age, it’s pushing himself to know where his ceiling is,” van Nistelrooy said of the Moroccan at the end of last month.
“The potential is there. To play in a top club, in the Champions League, that’s where his potential is.”
It may seem strange for a manager to tout one of his own players to a level City can barely dream about reaching at the moment, but it shouldn’t be something they hide.
Instead, they should make it their public reputation. It seems the best route for them to ever challenge for Europe again.
It’s what helped City in the past. They were able to market themselves as the final step on the ladder before players joined a big club.
Consider Wesley Fofana. City bought a player with that grand potential and after just two seasons, even missing three-quarters of one campaign with a serious injury, he was sold for double the money to one of the country’s biggest sides.
