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Brendan Rodgers hopes Leicester City’s “fantastic project” helps the club to lure players in the January transfer window.

The City manager wants to improve his squad when the market reopens in the new year, with a new centre-back his priority.

The winter window can be a difficult one in which to pull off deals but Rodgers remains hopeful and believes any prospective signings would enjoy life at the King Power Stadium.

“I think if we can improve the squad that's what we would look to do,” Rodgers said. “But availability with a player is sometimes difficult.

“I think our profile and how we have been working consistently for a while, players would enjoy this way of working. I think the future here is exciting. It's a fantastic project here for players if they are looking into it.

“January is difficult but we are always looking forward.

“We want to reach European football. My first job was to develop the players who were here and maximise their potential to play the game.

“Then there are of course positions where you can always improve and you always want to do that. You want to then top that up with real quality.”

With City flying high in second spot in the Premier League, and with a talented squad already in place, much of the club’s transfer strategy revolves around preparing for the future.

That approach paid off when Caglar Soyuncu, signed from Freiburg in 2018, stepped up to replace Harry Maguire this season.

Rodgers said City will continue to stay one step ahead.

“You always have to have an eye on what’s coming through from the 18s and 23s as well as looking at players at the latter end of their careers,” he said.

“That’s important but this club has been very good at that. They’ve been excellent in terms of getting the right players in.

“In my time here now we’re looking at the profile of players who can play in the style of play we want to play and that makes it easy then for recruitment teams to get that type of player in.

“There’s always a planning process that goes on. The guys here have been excellent at that previously.”