News now: Leicester City lock horns with West Ham to secure the signature of Coventry City star player

Football Insider has been informed by sources that Leicester City is interested in signing Callum O’Hare, the star player for Coventry City.

The 26-year-old’s contract with the Sky Blues expires in June, so he will be free to sign elsewhere this summer.

On Tuesday, April 30, sources informed Football Insider that the attacker has informed his present team that he plans to depart during the summer transfer window. Prior to the upcoming season, Southampton, West Ham, and Aston Villa are all interested in signing the player.

Leicester is currently making a lot of effort to sign a player who is ready to establish himself in the Premier League.

This season, O’Hare has led Coventry to the FA Cup semifinals with 10 goals and 4 assists across all competitions.

Leicester City is pursuing a star from the Championship.
In this season’s competition, the former Villa forward netted four goals, one of which came in the team’s semifinal loss to Manchester United.

In the Championship, he has also scored six goals. With one game remaining, Coventry is now in ninth place and hopes to finish in the top 10.

Who will prevail in the competition for O’Hare is still unknown, but considering the interest shown by the Foxes, Villa, and Hammers, a Premier League spot is probably in the cards.

Meanwhile, Southampton, who is presently fourth in the Championship table, might make a return to the top flight the following season after securing a play-off spot.

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Preview: Queens Park Rangers vs. Coventry City: lineups, team news, and predictions

In the Championship, Coventry City will host Queens Park Rangers on Saturday afternoon at the Coventry Building Society Arena in an attempt to turn around their terrible recent performance.

The R’s will be celebrating after clinching their second-tier safety last week, while the Sky Blues are depleted as an extremely taxing run of games comes to an end.

Coventry has only managed one point in the last five Championship games, which are positioned around an FA Cup semi-final loss to Manchester United at Wembley on April 21. As a result, their chances of securing consecutive postseason finishes are completely gone ahead of the last weekend.

The Tractor Boys successfully increased the East Anglians’ chances of automatic promotion with goals from Kieffer Moore and defender Cameron Burgess. The Sky Blues’ most recent game took place at the CBS Arena on Tuesday night. The game was all about the visitors, Ipswich Town.

Despite losing, Coventry had some positives for the evening because of the goal-scoring antics of USA international Haji Wright. Against Kieran McKenna’s team, Wright scored his 16th goal of the Championship, surpassing his previous season’s 15 goals in the Turkish Super Lig when playing for Antalyaspor.

This summer, Wright and Ellis Simms, a former Sunderland loanee, have been able to replace Sporting Lisbon star Viktor Gyokeres’ goals. However, the Sky Blues’ defensive shortcomings have prevented them from finishing in the top six this season; on Saturday, the hosts have only kept 12 clean sheets after recording 22 in the 2022–2023 campaign.

Callum O’Hare, a playmaker who has scored 22 goals in 181 appearances for the Coventry team since joining from Aston Villa in 2019, is expected to play his final game in Coventry colors on Saturday as he has not yet signed a new contract with the West Midlands team.

QPR was six points from safety in the Championship, sitting in second place, and it appeared inevitable that Marti Cifuentes, who had been brought in to replace Gareth Ainsworth, would be joining second-tier whipping boys Rotherham United in League One the next season.

By last Friday, the West London club had decisively ended the spectacular resurgence of the R’s under the Spaniard. They had defeated promotion-hopeful Leeds United 4-0 in the capital, confirming QPR’s place in the Championship for the 2024–25 campaign.

QPR are currently six points ahead of 22nd-place Birmingham City going into the final weekend of the second-tier schedule. The two teams will battle at lunchtime on Saturday to escape what many fans thought would happen to the R’s early in the season.

Ilias Chair, who has led his teammates in both attacking metrics with six goals and eight assists in the Championship, has remained a talisman for Cifuentes’s charges despite a season full of individual controversy and transfer rumors.

When QPR travels to the West Midlands on Saturday, they’ll be hoping to avoid losing to Coventry four times in a row. The R’s last victory over the Sky Blues came in January 2022 at the CBS Arena thanks to goals from Andre Gray and the team’s beloved Albert Adomah.

The absence of Tatsuhiro Sakamoto and Fabio Tavares has left the Sky Blues particularly short on options on the right wing, contributing to Coventry’s acute squad depth problem in recent weeks.

Luis Binks, the center back, will also not be available for the Robins due to an Achilles injury he sustained in the loss to Hull City.

January signature Because Victor Torp is still healing from a stomach injury, players like Ben Sheaf and Liam Kelly should continue to be in the engine room.

Since Swiss striker Michael Frey is not available for QPR, Scotland international Lyndon Dykes, who recently scored against Leeds, will start at the front of the line once more.

After a season marred by injuries, Taylor Richards hopes to play in the first team again this summer. Rayan Kolli will also be absent from Saturday’s game.

Lucas Andersen most likely has done enough to maintain his place in the starting lineup, but Paul Smyth made an impression during his cameo against Daniel Farke’s team last week.