Town are eyeing Leicester City winger Kasey McAteer.

We understand the 23-year-old is among a number of right-sided forwards on the Blues’ list of potential recruits as they look to replace Omari Hutchinson, who left to join Nottingham Forest for £37.5 million last weekend.

The Daily Telegraph, is reporting that a bid has been made and the Blues are confident of making the signing, however, that is understood to overstate the position as it stands with Town also looking at other options.

On Friday, it was reported that Town had made a €20 million (£17.2 million) offer to Danish club FC Nordsjælland for 19-year-old Norwegian international forward Sindre Walle Egeli.

Northampton-born McAteer joined Leicester aged eight and made his first senior appearance in the Premier League in a 4-0 victory over Newcastle in December 2021.

Having had spells on loan with Forest Green Rovers, with whom he won the 2021/22 League Two title, and AFC Wimbledon, the right-sided forward has gone on to make a total of 27 starts and 29 sub appearances for the Foxes, scoring eight goals, including his side’s second in the 2-0 win against the Blues at the King Power Stadium in May. He was a member of the squad which pipped Town to the 2023/24 Championship title.

McAteer has won six full Republic of Ireland caps, scoring one international goal.

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blueboy1981 added 15:17 - Aug 21 Same old sh#te - different day !
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blueboy1981 added 15:35 - Aug 21 At the moment the Club is a shambles, on and off the field. No wonder players have wanted to leave, and becoming ever more difficult to attract replacements. Blues 1 - must now be trawling through the 5th Edition Book of Excuses for such disarray surely ?
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flykickingbybgunn added 16:11 - Aug 21 Foxes forum are under whelmed by McAteer and happy to let him go for a good sum.
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itfc2024 added 16:25 - Aug 21 blueboy1981 I totally agree with ur comment the club is a mess at the moment we are losing players with hardly anyone coming in with my comments about this signing blues1 is the only one to down mark me so he must be happy with signing crap players
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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 21:10 - Aug 21 Most of these rumours don't result in anything, so I wouldn't worry too much.
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bluesince76 added 21:34 - Aug 21 Boring now come on Ashton surprise me and sign some players of quality a striker and two midfielders would be sufficient.
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