Leicester City

Nizaar Kinsella
Football reporter

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Teenage Leicester City striker Lorenz Hutchinson is keen on a move to Italian side Lazio when his contract expires.

The 18-year-old was the subject of a £1.2m bid from the Serie A club on transfer deadline day, which included a 20% sell-on clause.

However, despite Hutchinson's desire to make the move, the deal collapsed over details related to payments to his entourage.

Two months on, key figures at Leicester expect him to leave and Hutchinson remains keen on a move to Lazio.

He is able to sign a pre-contract agreement with overseas clubs in January.

Hutchinson made his Foxes first-team debut this season as a substitute in an EFL Trophy victory over Fulham Under-21s, but has yet to appear in the league this season.

At youth level, Hutchinson scored 15 goals and delivered five assists in the Under-18s Premier League last season.

Leicester City manager Russell Martin believes the fans are finally feeling connected to the team after recording back-to-back wins in League One.

Leicester beat Bromley 4-0 at Hayes Lane on Tuesday to move up to 10th in the table, three points outside the play-offs.

The Foxes won just one of their opening five league matches, putting pressure on summer arrival Martin but have since taken 10 points from the following five games.

"Its been a big two games for us, and I feel like we've given supporters more of a team they can feel connected to," Martin told BBC Radio Leicester.

"We've been aggressive. We've tried to hurt teams., and we've found a balance in the way we're going to play, and a formation that has helped us, so we need to try to keep growing.

"The fans have been great, home and away. We have to keep growing that connection, and ultimately we have to do it on the pitch and give them a team they can be proud of and connected to."

Leicester's previous successive league victories came almost a year ago in November 2025, but Martin knows his project is still in the early stages.

"I'm really pleased we've had back-to-back wins, but this one's done" he added. "We have to learn from it, try and grow again, and try and win on Saturday [at Luton].

"All I can ask from the players, to keep growing and trying to improve. We had some brilliant performances, and real togetherness. Now we have to build some momentum."

The Foxes have yet to come from behind and win in their opening 10 league fixtures, but have not lost in any of the six matches where they have scored first.

"It makes such a difference when you score first," Martin said. "We spoke about it a lot, and together the players and the staff have tried to work out strategies to start games better.

"When we score first with the players and that pitch, teams then have to come after you and hunt you a bit,. The we can find the spaces between the units.

"We're showing more and more toughness. If we can always bring that level of fight and aggression, and willingness to defend properly, then it gives us a chance in every game".

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Leicester City attacking midfielder Kamari Doyle said the team "can't hold off" now in their desire to improve their stuttering start to the season.

Doyle, on-loan with the Foxes from Brighton, scored his first goal for the club in Saturday's much-needed 2-1 win at home to Doncaster Rovers in League One.

Victory was City's first in the league since 12 September and evened out their record after nine games at three wins, three draws and three defeats.

It leaves them 14th in the table, four points clear of the bottom four and six adrift of the top six before Tuesday's game at Bromley.

With the only win in the previous four games coming against Fulham's under-21 side in the EFL Trophy, Doyle said it was vital they improved their league form against Doncaster.

"The most important thing was just to show our fight [and] desire, to run, to tackle, win duels, defend the box," he told BBC Radio Leicester.

"Obviously we still showed our quality with the goals, but we just need to kick on and continue to show that.

"You've got to be happy when you win. That's really important.

"We've got to push on, we can't hold off. We've got to use the feeling to kick on and do the same on Tuesday."

One-time Premier League title winners Leicester City should not be "anywhere near" the relegation zone in League One, says striker Emil Riis.

But with just two wins win from their opening eight matches in the third tier, the Foxes are just one point above the bottom four.

Despite back-to-back relegations and a summer shakeup at King Power Stadium, in which a number of high-profile and big earning players were moved on, Leicester dropped into League One as favourites to immediately bounce back with promotion.

Danish forward Riis was among a number of summer recruits brought in as part of Leicester's rebuild in League One, and he remains defiantly optimistic about the campaign despite the slow start to the season that has them languishing near the relegation spots.

"It's definitely not good enough, we shouldn't be anywhere near that," he told BBC Radio Leicester.

"But it's early on in the season and it's a new group, but I'm sure we will up there by the end of the season."

Riis, who is Leicester's top scorer this term with four goals, says "hard work" will be needed from Russell Martin's side to turn their fortunes around.

"There is only one way out and that is keep believing and fighting," he said.

You can listen to Riis' full interview with BBC Radio Leicester by clicking the play button above, while more interviews and analysis are available on Leicester City's BBC Sounds page.

Aaron Paul, Jobi McAnuff and Tommy Smith are joined by former Hornets midfielder Tom Ince to chat about Watford, with the club in the Championship relegation zone after 10 games.

What's it like amid the constant turnover of managers in the dugout? Will they buck the trend and stick with Alessio Dionisi?

Plus, hear from Jon Rudkin, Leicester City's chief football officer, on the situation the club currently finds itself in. Will Leicester stick with Russell Martin, or do they need to make a change to ensure success?

And Tommy gives his opinion on Spygate after Southampton boss Tonda Eckert was handed a suspended six-week ban for his part in the spying scandal.

Listen to the full episode above or on BBC Sounds here - and don't forget to subscribe to get each episode into your My Sounds feed.

Leicester City manager Russell Martin says Peterborough United will be a more mysterious prospect under new boss Robbie Savage on Saturday – but what the Foxes boss does expect from the Posh is "a lot of energy".

Savage's first League One game in charge of Peterborough will be at Leicester, a club where he spent five years and made 200-plus appearances more than two decades ago.

The 51-year-old has been in the Posh job for just seven days, having left non-league side Forest Green Rovers to replace Luke Williams.

Williams, who was sacked by the third-tier strugglers before the international break, is someone Martin knows well, having employed him as an assistant manager at MK Dons and Swansea City when he was in charge of those sides earlier in his career.

Under Williams, Martin says he "felt like they weren't far away" from turning their poor start to the season around.

Preparing for Peterborough's visit under Savage, Martin adds, has been "more difficult".

"It's a young team and they have a new manager in Robbie, who is going to give them a lot of energy," Martin told BBC Radio Leicester.

"The first few games under a new manager... you see different things emerge. It's really difficult to judge them on what's gone on previously.

"The focus is on us and it's about us and what we are going to do. We have to be aware of them and also aware of the context of the game with a new manager."

Leicester City boss Russell Martin was both "frustrated" and encouraged by Tuesday's 2-1 EFL Trophy defeat at Stevenage which leaves them second in their group.

Martin made a number of changes to the side that thumped Fulham's Under-21 side 6-1 in the opening group game in the competition last month.

Harry Souttar, who captained Australia in two friendly fixtures against Brazil during the international break, was ushered straight into the Foxes starting side for a cup tie in which 18-year-old midfielder Riley Carr made his senior debut for the club and Tommy Neal earned his first start for Leicester.

Goals from Wanya Marcal and Oliver Sanderson either side of the break put Stevenage in control before Emil Riis pulled a goal back for Martin's side.

"It's frustrating, but also the way we played was really positive," Martin told BBC Radio Leicester.

"For a team that hasn't played much together, a couple of debuts for Tommy Neal and Riley who did great, and some guys back - Christian [McFarlane] and Souttar - from international duty who haven't been here and it's some really important minutes for a lot of players on the pitch.

"But I wanted to win, we wanted to win. We will be frustrated about that but if we sort that out in both boxes, we are so close to being a really brilliant team because it was so dominant.

"We created so many chances and we should be more clinical, and we have to defend the set plays like they did, because they defended set piece with their lives and that's the difference."