Leicester scout Ligue 1 clash amid claims of Guirassy interest

Leicester sent a scout to France on Saturday to watch the LIgue 1 clash between Nimes and Amiens amid reports they could be watching striker Sehrou Guirassy. French journalist Colin Delprat, who works for newspaper Mini Libre Nimes, tweeted that scouts from Leicester, Bologna, Roma and Chievo Verona were in attendance at the Stade des Costières on Saturday.
He went on to suggest that all four of the clubs were there to watch Amiens forward Sehrou Guirassy, who is a hot prospect in France.
Guirassy was linked to Tottenham Hotspur when he was a teenager coming through at Laval, but has since played for Auxerre, Lille – where Arsenal were also reportedly keen – and Bundesliga outfit Koln before returning to France in the summer for 6million euros.
The 23-year-old, who has three Ligue 1 goals to his name this season, did not excel in the match and Delprat notes that Nimes’ 20-year-old goalkeeper Lucas Dias would probably have impressed the watching clubs more.
Dias was starting the first Ligue 1 match of his career, having replaced the injured Nimes number one Paul Barnardoni in the club’s previous match just prior to the international break.
Although Leicester could be tracking Guirassy, who remains on the radar of many Premier League clubs still, the Foxes’ spy may have had a much more straightforward reason for being at the game and that is on-loan forward Fousseni Diabate.
Claude Puel brought Diabate to Leicester in January 2018 for an undisclosed fee and gave him an instant debut in the 5-1 FA Cup fourth-round win over Peterborough United.
He looked good in that match and plundered two goals, but was never really good enough to make a regular breakthrough at the King Power Stadium.
Leicester loaned him to Sivasspor for the second half of last season before Amiens offered the Mali international a chance this summer.
So far his statistics don’t exactly suggest he’s made a great start with Diabate producing one assist in five Ligue 1 appearances and yet to find the net himself.