Leicester plot transfer of Southampton star Victor Wanyama

Claudio Ranieri is monitoring Southampton’s Victor Wanyama as a possible replacement for N’Golo Kante.

Leicester boss Ranieri is set to lose his PFA Player of the Year nominee this summer, with Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain, ­Manchester City and Arsenal all huge admirers.

Meanwhile, fellow midfielder Wanyama has just a year left on his Southampton contract and has so far refused to sign a new five-year deal, with Tottenham interested in signing him.

Like Spurs, Ranieri is able to offer the 24-year-old Champions League football next season as his league-leading Foxes have already secured qualification for the group stage.

It means the prospects of Southampton, currently eighth and hoping for a Europa League spot, holding onto the combative former Celtic star in the face of transfer interest again like they did last summer look bleak.

Ranieri does have high hopes for versatile 21-year-old Daniel Amartey, signed from Denmark's FC Copenhagen in January, in the centre of the park.