Leicester City: Foxes sign Wolves' Conor Coady & Tottenham's Harry Winks on three-year deals
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Conor Coady's final game on loan at Everton was the 1-0 win over Bournemouth that kept the Toffees up and sent Leicester down
Newly relegated Leicester have signed England internationals Conor Coady and Harry Winks on three-year deals.
Defender Coady, 30, arrives after eight years at Wolves while midfielder Winks, 27, joins from Tottenham Hotspur.
Both players, each capped 10 times, move for undisclosed amounts although Winks' fee is reported to be about £10m and Coady's £8.5m.
They become Enzo Maresca's first signings as Foxes boss since he took over at the Championship club in June.
Each player had become surplus to requirements at their Premier League clubs, with centre-back Coady spending last season on loan at Everton, while Winks enjoyed a similar spell in Italy with Sampdoria.
Former Wolves captain Coady made 317 appearances for Wanderers and was included in England's squad for both Euro 2020 and the 2022 World Cup, although he did not play at either tournament.
He made his final Wolves appearance in May 2022 before a surprise loan move to the Toffees, playing 24 times as they avoided relegation at Leicester's expense.
"It's such an exciting place to be, I'm massively excited about joining so it wasn't a hard decision," Coady told the club website., external
Winks, meanwhile, had been at Spurs since the age of five, making 203 appearances in all competitions since his debut in 2014.
He makes the switch from north London just three days after James Maddison sealed a £40m move in the opposite direction.
"I'm looking forward to a new challenge and to challenge myself," Winks said on the Leicester site., external "Coming to a club like Leicester is the perfect chance to do that."
Winks played 128 Premier League games for Tottenham and was among their starting line-up for the 2019 Champions League final defeat by Liverpool.
But he slipped down Spurs' pecking order in recent seasons and his most recent England cap came in 2020.
Meanwhile, forward Nathan Opoku has joined Belgian side OH Leuven on a season-long loan, the Foxes announced later on Saturday.
The 21-year-old spent the second half of last season with OHL and scored three goals in seven league appearances.
After being relegated from the top flight on the final day of last season, Leicester begin their Championship campaign at home to Coventry City on Sunday, 6 August.
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