Brendan Rodgers expects Wesley Fofana to still be a Leicester player when the transfer window closes on 1 September.
The France Under-21 defender has been the subject of interest from Chelsea, who have had two bids rejected. Rodgers said: “The idea is that he is a Leicester City player.
“He is not for sale, the club have made that clear, unless anything changes he will still be here. At this moment there is nothing new and nothing has changed from when we last spoke.”
Fofana signed a new deal with the Foxes in March, committing him to the club until 2027. He joined Leicester from Saint-Etienne in 2020 and made 38 appearances in his first year at the club.
Last season, he did not play until March, having broken his leg the previous August in a pre-season friendly against Villarreal.
However, he started both of Foxes’ first two games of the current campaign as they drew 2-2 with Brentford and lost 4-2 at Arsenal.
Elsewhere, Wolves have signed Sporting Lisbon and Portugal midfielder Matheus Nunes for a club record €45m (£38m) fee on a five-year contract. Nunes has been on the radar of many leading clubs in Europe.
The 23-year-old, who was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, joined Sporting in 2019 and made 101 appearances for the club, scoring eight times. Nunes has eight caps for Portugal and is expected to be part of their squad for this year’s World Cup in Qatar.
His breakthrough in Lisbon came in the 2020-21 season when he helped Sporting lift their first Portuguese league title in 19 years.
The transfer fee for Nunes surpasses the £35.6m Wolves paid for forwarding Fabio Silva in 2020. Nunes told the club’s website he was impressed with manager Bruno Lage’s desire to bring him to Molineux and encouraged him to move by “some of my teammates because I play with them for the national team”.
