Amid rumours Sean Dyche might move to the King Power, Leicester are plotting a move to sign Everton defender Michael Keane on a free transfer when his contract expires later this month. (Football Insider, external)
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After weeks of uncertainty, Leicester City have finally parted ways with boss Ruud van Nistelrooy.
The Dutchman only saw five wins out of 27 matches during his tenure with the Foxes, leaving some to question whether he was the right man to lead a Championship promotion campaign.
How are you feeling about the news, Foxes fans?
Do you think the timing is right or has the board been dawdling too long over a decision that feels like it's been on the cards for some time?
What do you make of the heavily rumoured appointment of former Everton and Burnley boss Sean Dyche?
The EFL fixture list is out and we know you are bursting to know what you've got to look forward to - or dread - from your team this upcoming season.
Here are some key dates to put in your diary:
10 August 2025 - v Sheffield Wednesday (H)
16 August 2025 - v Preston North End (A)
20 September 2025 - v Coventry City (H)
6 December 2025 - v Derby County (A)
26 December 2025 - v Watford (H)
29 December 2025 - Derby County (H)
1 January 2026 - v Sheffield United (A)
17 January 2026 - v Coventry City (A)
2 May 2026 - v Blackburn Rovers (A)
See Leicester City's full fixture list here.
Everton and Manchester United are both interested in Leicester's Nigerian midfielder Wilfred Ndidi, 28, who has a reported £9m relegation release clause. (Talksport, external)
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Your club will soon discover their schedule for the upcoming EFL season. As soon as Thursday, in fact.
Want to know who your side will face on opening day? The EFL fixtures will be announced at 12:00 BST - but that's not all.
The day will be rounded off by the first round of Carabao Cup being drawn at 16:30 BST.
So check back on 26 June to see who your team faces first, last and everything in between.
King Power's Financial Fears
"Reports in Thailand say the King Power empire is on the brink of collapse... what does this mean for Leicester City?"
The When You're Smiling team are joined by football finance expert Christina Phillipou to delve into the issues facing the Foxes owners and what it might mean for the club.
Listen to the full episode and more on BBC Sounds.
Leicester defender Conor Coady is a target for new Rangers boss Russell Martin, though the 32-year-old has another year left on his deal with the Foxes. (Daily Record, external)
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Leicester City have been approached by Scottish Premiership club Rangers over a deal for 32-year-old defender Conor Coady, while his former club Wolves have also shown interest. (Sky Sports), external
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Image source, Getty ImagesLeicester City midfielder Boubakary Soumare, 26, is on Spanish club Sevilla's list of transfer priorities and could soon sign for the La Liga outfit, having previously spent the 2023-24 season on loan with them. Serie A club Roma and Ligue 1 side Monaco are also monitoring the situation. (Leicester Mercury), external
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Leicester City are weighing up a move for Leeds United forward Sam Greenwood, 23, who spent last season on loan at Preston. (Mail), external
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How do you replace Jamie Vardy?
"We need to move in a different direction now after the glorious years we've had with Jamie Vardy."
The When You're Smiling team discuss how Leicester City should replace long-serving Jamie Vardy following his departure from the club at the end of last season.
Do they rely on current squad members such as Patson Daka or Jordan Ayew?
Or should the Foxes be looking for new blood?
Listen to the full episode and more on BBC Sounds.
Leicester City have rejected a bid from Norwich City for Polish goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk, 24. (Sky Sports), external
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No News Isn't Always Good News
"The loudest message is say nothing, says everything.
"I presume it's just going to be a matter of time, moving it over onto the next financial year - or, again, it's been pretty quiet. If they are looking for someone, there hasn't been too many conversations. Is there anyone out there?"
Join the When You're Smiling podcast team and hear from fans as they discuss Leicester City's silence over the future of the team with frustration starting to mount.
"It's mismanagement at the end of the day," former Foxes striker Matty Fryatt said.
"The lack of communication, the disconnect, trying to be together to push forward but with no real message or signs of what's going on or what the path looks like. It's hard to get behind it.
"You can definitely feel the frustration and it's totally justified."
Listen to the full episode and more on BBC Sounds.
Image source, Getty ImagesJamie Vardy provided many crucial goals and was the heart of a period of unmatched success for Leicester City during his 13 years at the club.
But after the Foxes suffered their second Premier League relegation in three years in 2024-25, the 38-year-old left Championship-bound East Midlands side.
In the fifth and final episode of BBC Radio Leicester's podcast series on the striker – Havin' a party: The Jamie Vardy story – a range of Foxes fans share their memories and personal stories about how the decorated striker made an impact at the King Power Stadium.
Image source, Getty ImagesNot every chapter of Jamie Vardy's story at Leicester City was a happy one.
The season after Premier League glory brought Champions League football to the King Power stadium. And it was on the way back from a European tie that title-winning boss Claudio Ranieri was sacked.
In episode four of BBC Radio Leicester's podcast series on the striker – Havin' a party: The Jamie Vardy story – co-host and former Foxes winger Marc Albrighton talks about the backlash that some of the Foxes' highest profile players dealt with afterwards.
The tragedy of the helicopter crash at Leicester City's King Power stadium in 2018, that killed the club's chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four other people, is also part of this agonising chapter in the club's history.
A spotlight is also put on the off-field controversy that the striker was dragged into in later years when his wife Rebekah was accused by Coleen Rooney, the wife of former England captain Wayne Rooney, of leaking private stories to a tabloid newspaper.
What followed was to become known as the Wagatha Christie trial.
It only added to Vardy becoming a target of abuse from rivals fans during matches, but Albrighton explained just how much his team-mate enjoyed coming up with "the final say" with a goal and passionate celebration.
The episode concludes with Leicester lifting the FA Cup for the first time in their history in 2021 – which was yet another cherished chapter in the Foxes story that Vardy helped write.
Image source, Getty ImagesIt started with a record-breaking goal-scoring spree from Jamie Vardy and ended with the most unlikely of Premier League title wins to the tune of an Italian opera.
Yep, there is nothing more surreal than the Foxes 5,000-1 top-flight triumph of 2015-16, which is the focus of the third episode of BBC Radio Leicester's podcast series - Havin' a party: The Jamie Vardy story.
Italian manager Claudio Ranieri was brought to the King Power Stadium and wasn't a universally popular appointment as Nigel Pearson's replacement at the time.
He was known as 'the Tinkerman' for how often he rotated his Chelsea side when previously at the helm of the London club.
At Leicester, he was a dream weaver for transforming the Foxes from relegation escapologists into English champions for the first time.
And it was Vardy, who earned his first England cap in 2015, who led the way with his 24 league goals.
So prolific was the then 29-year-old that he scored in a record 11 consecutive Premier League games.
Leicester City fans, as well as Vardy's former team-mates Marc Albrighton, Danny Simpson and Gary Taylor-Fletcher, as well as former Foxes striker turned BBC Radio Leicester co-commentator Matt Piper, reflect on the title-winning season and the striker's influence.
Gary Lineker, the ex-Leicester City and England forward who was then the BBC's Match of the Day host, also features in the story of a remarkable season that ended with Italian singer Andrea Bocelli singing at the King Power Stadium during their trophy lift.
Image source, Getty ImagesThirteen years, 500 appearances and 200 goals ago, Jamie Vardy arrived at Leicester City as a record-breaking signing.
He became the first £1m non-league footballer when he was brought to the King Power Stadium from Fleetwood in 2012.
The second episode of BBC Radio Leicester's podcast series – Havin' a party: The Jamie Vardy story – focuses on how the striker came to grips with the huge step up with Leicester City.
He leapt from the fifth tier of English football to the second when he joined the then Championship side.
Vardy's former Foxes team-mates Neil Danns, Gary Taylor-Fletcher, Conrad Logan as well as ex-goalkeeping coach Mike Stowell and a number of supporters share their memories of what it was like to see the forward get used to life in the Championship before taking the step up to the Premier League in 2014.
Marc Albrighton, who played alongside Vardy when Leicester won the Premier League title and FA Cup in later years, is co-host of the podcast and talks about the Foxes' narrow escape from relegation in 2015 and how it would set them up for future glories.
Image source, Getty ImagesFrom international debuts to first goals for their countries, here's what you might have missed over the weekend.
Leicester City midfielder Kasey McAteer scored his first goal for the Republic of Ireland on Friday in what was his maiden start for the side.
The Foxes academy graduate got on the end of the goalkeeper's parry to put his side ahead before Senegal equalised in the 82nd minute for a 1-1 draw.
Ipswich Town midfielder Jack Taylor also made his first international start for the Republic in the friendly.
Nineteen-year-old Birmingham City Under-21s player Menzi Mazwi made his debut for Zimbabwe during their 2-0 loss to South Africa in the COSAFA Cup on Saturday, coming on as a substitute in the 77th minute.
Image source, Getty ImagesJamie Vardy and Marc Albrighton played everything from Championship to Champions League football together at Leicester
With the Jamie Vardy party at Leicester City now over, the striker's remarkable journey to becoming the greatest Foxes goalscorer of all time has been chronicled by BBC Radio Leicester.
Former winger Marc Albrighton, who won the Premier League title and lifted the FA Cup alongside the England forward, joins Leicester City commentator Owynn Palmer-Atkin in hosting the five-part series.
Episode one starts at the beginning of Vardy's remarkable football journey and the disappointment of being released by boyhood club Sheffield Wednesday as a teenager.
His time playing for a college team after that was followed by a life-shaping spell at Stocksbridge Park Steels – where he played for six months with an electronic tag on his ankle after being convicted of assault.
A 6:00pm curfew that was also imposed on Vardy meant the first two occasions that Neil Aspin went to try watch the forward during his time as Halifax boss, he wasn't there because both matches were evening kick-offs.
"From first seeing him, I knew he was a player we had to sign," Aspin said.
It cost the West Yorkshire club £15,000 to get a player that would go on to score 145 Premier League goals and net seven times in 26 internationals for England.
Aspin also tells the story of Vardy coming close to scoring a hat-trick of hat-tricks in one week of his one season with Halifax, which earned him a move to then non-league side Fleetwood Town.
It was his golden-boot winning exploits with the Cod Army, which helped them win promotion to the English Football League for the first time in 2011-12, that made Vardy the first non-league player to cost £1m when he then joined Championship club Leicester.
Steve Walsh, Leicester City's former head of recruitment, talks about how they landed the future star's signature when Southampton had also been "in for him".
