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Shamoon Hafez
Football reporter

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Aaron Ramsey could be leaving Burnley and heading to Leicester City on loan before the window shuts at 19:00 BST.

The 22-year-old has played one game for the Clarets this season, scoring in the Carabao Cup second round win over Derby.

Leicester sources have confirmed to BBC Sport there is interest in signing the former Aston Villa player, while Burnley sources suggest a deal is close.

Ramsey's departure would come after the Turf Moor club agreed a deal to sign midfielder Florentino Luis from Benfica.

Chris Forryan
Fan writer

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Four league games into the season and we already have our first international break, but it does give us time to reflect on Leicester City's start to the campaign.

Four league games, one Carabao Cup game and one pre-season friendly. That's how many games Marti Cifuentes has had in charge since he joined Leicester on 15 July. That was just 36 days before our first league game.

So six games in charge in total so far, that's almost a pre-season alone for some teams. On top of that, one free goalkeeper aside, Cifuentes has had to deal with a team that wasn't his, a team he could not add to before selling.

He lost first-teamers Mads Hermansen, Wilfred Ndidi, Conor Coady, Kasey McAteer, James Justin and Jamie Vardy. He also had to deal with players whose heads had been turned, such as Harry Winks and Bilal El Khannouss, all while dealing with players' reactions to the fans and fans' reactions to the performances.

Yet despite all this, Cifuentes beat a top-six Italian side, won three of four league games and has guided us to fourth in the league, the best position of the three relegated sides. Yes, we lost to Huddersfield Town in the Carabao Cup - they went on to also beat Premier League Sunderland on penalties - but he will have learned from this.

Of course, performances can be improved, but scoring 10 goals in six games under Marti and keeping three clean sheets makes for a promising start.

If you compare that to the 20 goals in 27 games under Ruud van Nistelrooy last season (six of which came against QPR in the FA Cup) along with just two clean sheets in those 27 games, Cifuentes' reign has begun a whole lot more brightly.

I am sure Chelsea already have all these stats noted!

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The future of Portsmouth winger Josh Murphy remains uncertain heading into the final hours of the summer transfer window.

The 30-year-old has been linked with a move to Leicester City and on Saturday it emerged that Portsmouth had rejected a bid from the Foxes for their star player.

BBC Radio 5 live reporter Chris Wise said , externalthat the bid fell "quite a way short" of Pompey's valuation.

Portsmouth's stance is that he is not for sale and Blues boss John Mousinho reiterated this after Saturday's 1-0 victory over Preston which Murphy played 90 minutes in.

"The only message I've been told is he isn't for sale and I'm pretty happy with that," Mousinho told BBC Radio Solent after the game.

He then jokingly said that it would take a £50m bid from Real Madrid for them to even consider selling the winger.

Last season in the Championship Murphy scored seven goals and registered 14 assists as Portsmouth secured their second-tier status.

Clubs would have until 19:00 BST on Monday to finalise any deal for the attacker's services.

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Leicester City head coach Marti Cifuentes says the win over Birmingham City offered real signs of a real "culture" growing within the team.

The relegated Foxes beat the previously unbeaten Blues with goals from Abdul Fatawu and Ricardo Pereira.

The result took them up to third with three wins from their opening four Championship games and it was successive victories after the setback at Preston North End two weeks ago.

After the misery of their second Premier League relegation in three seasons, Spaniard Cifuentes knows that he has to rebuild the club's confidence and mentality.

"I'm happy because it's never easy to win football games and at the same time we played against a good team that never made things easy for us," he told BBC Radio Leicester.

"Overall, from the performance there are a lot of things we can improve but the main thing for me is about building culture and identity.

"I see that the players care, and they are showing desire and commitment and the spirit we want to have as a foundation which is very positive.

"I'm happy for the young guys and the way the experienced guys are helping. I'm happy to see the commitment from the guys from the academy who were on the bench today. That is definitely a solid foundation."

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Leicester are interested in signing Portsmouth winger Josh Murphy, 30, before Monday's transfer deadline. (Pete O'Rourke, external)

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"I think we need this transfer window to slam shut. Fatawu and El Khannouss and a few others we desperately need to cling on to."

Owynn Palmer-Atkin and Steve Howard are joined by BBC Radio Leicester's Ady Dayman to talk about the latest transfers and the Foxes' home game against Birmingham City on Friday (20:00 BST).

Leicester will be looking for back-to-back wins.

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The EFL weekend gets under way with a mouthwatering clash between Leicester and Birmingham at the King Power on Friday night (20:00 BST).

The two sides were playing two divisions apart last season but go into this match with the unbeaten Blues two places and one point ahead of the Foxes in the fledgling Championship standings.

• Leicester City have won each of their past four league games against Birmingham City, two via a 2-1 scoreline and the other two via a 3-2 scoreline.

• Birmingham City have won just two of their past 12 away league games against Leicester City (D2 L8), failing to win on any of their last four visits to the King Power Stadium.

• Leicester have won each of their past three home league games and will be looking to win four in succession for the first time since April 2024.

• Through their opening three Championship matches this season, Birmingham have faced just 18 shots in total and four shots on target – no side has faced fewer of either in the 2025-26 competition.

• Amongst the 103 players in the Championship this season to have attempted 100+ passes, no player holds a better pass accuracy rate than Leicester's Harry Winks (96.3%), whilst teammate Boubakary Soumare ranks second (93.4%)