Patson Daka: from Haaland's successor to Vardy's heir?

Jamie Vardy is like good wine and, despite his 34 years, he improves with age, but footballers, when the time comes, have an expiration date. Thus, Brendan Rodgers intends to find him an heir May I give you rest first, while you soak up your experience. The coach has acknowledged that he wants a mobile, fast forward who can surprise the defenses by coming from behind and Patson Daka, the favorite at the moment, Meets all requirements. In addition to being able to act as a reference man if necessary, thanks to the physical power that his 185 centimeters give him.

Thus, according to The Athletic, the 22-year-old has become a preferred option for Leicester. Daka has exploded at Red Bull Salzburg in the last two seasons, accumulating 34 goals and 12 assists in all competitions this season. While the past went to 27 and 12. Numbers that make the Foxes you have been identified as the perfect heir to a veteran, yet still productive, Jamie Vardy. The price that could make the operation crystallize is around 25 million euros, according to the aforementioned medium.

The international with Zambia (22 games and 7 goals) has also shown that he is not burdened with the responsibility of covering the gap left by a previous star. And it is that, in the energy team he took a step forward at the moment that Erling Haaland sealed his departure to Borussia Dortmund in January 2020. Leicester is not the only team to drink the winds for this power-packed striker and whose celebrations are almost as famous as his goals, and The Athletic recalls that Liverpool also has him on their list of futures.

Daka went through different teams in his country until he had a first contact with Austria in the second part of the 2016-17 season, when he spent six months on loan in the Liefering of the second Austrian. This would bring the fantastic clinical eye of Red Bull to rest on him and there would begin a progression that has made him one of the most promising young rams on the continent. Amen from go from a value of 250,000 euros when he was signed by Salzburg in the summer of 2017 to 22 million in which Transfermarkt rate you right now.

As they point out from The Athletic, the agreement, although close, still has edges to file and there is work to be done, but Daka is, at the moment, the forward whose signing is most likely. The other option that manages the sports direction of the foxes is Odsonne Édouard, French striker who has excelled at Celtic Glasgow and would be available for just under 20 million euros. Although, as we say, the favorite is a patson daka that he could go from Haaland's successor to Vardy's heir in a year and a half. Nothing bad.