Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson has played down reports linking the club with a move for 26 year old Sporting Lisbon striker Islam Slimani. "If there has been a bid gone in I know nothing about it," he said, quoted in the Leicester Mercury.

"It is pretty cold, that one. In terms of hot or cold that one is freezing."

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