Ralph Hasenhüttl, the Southampton manager, expects the defender Jannik Vestergaard to complete the formalities of his transfer to Leicester before the new Premier League season.
Leicester have moved for the Denmark international Vestergaard, 29, after Wesley Fofana sustained a fractured fibula during a friendly against Villarreal.
A reported £15m deal has been agreed for Vestergaard, who was in the final year of his contract with Southampton having joined from Borussia Mönchengladbach in July 2018.
He [Vestergaard] is doing the medical check and when that is done, then the deal is done,” Hasenhuttl said as he prepared for the trip to Everton on Saturday. “He will go to Leicester, then it is for us to replace him and this is what we will do in the future.”
Hasenhuttl, who has also seen the striker Danny Ings join Aston Villa in a £25m deal this summer, added: “We have lost Jannik now, so in the centre-back position we are not super strong with the numbers, but the rest of the squad seems to be quite balanced.”
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