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Leicester City captain Wes Morgan is set to cap a great week by signing a new contract with the club.

The 35-year-old has been offered a new one-year deal, which he is expected to sign, to stay with City after new manager Brendan Rodgers indicated to the club he wanted retain Morgan’s influence around the dressing room.

Rodgers has suggested Morgan will not play as many games as he has done previously for City, but he showed he would be ready when called for at Burnley by coming off the substitutes bench after just four minutes at Turf Moor following the sending off of Harry Maguire and scoring the last minute winner which gave City three hard-fought points.

Morgan and Jonny Evans defended heroically as Burnley pushed for a winner against ten man City, before popping up to head home the winner from Youri Tielemans cross late on.

“I feel he is someone who is very important for the club,” said Rodgers.

“He won’t play as much as he has done over his career, but his influence in the dressing room is very good.

“He is a very humble boy. He is a guy, in the short period I have known him, he is a good guy who is really with you, he wants the team to be the best and he is ready if you need him.

“I am sure that will be sorted out fairly soon.

“He has got a strong mentality and for us it was to win the game. Even though we had ten men we were obviously drawing and point would have been good for us, but our intention is to win every game we possibly can. He epitomised that.”

Rodgers revealed the plan was to throw Morgan on if Burnley put on Peter Crouch in the game, but when Maguire was shown red for bringing down Johann Berg Gudmundsson at the start of the game, Morgan was thrown in earlier than planned.

“I obviously watched him over the years,” added Rodgers.

“He is a very honest professional. His history at Leicester has been incredible.

“I said to him yesterday, to keep an eye on Peter Crouch on the side, because if he warms up and comes on then he should warm up because he will be coming on, but he was on well before Peter.

“I thought him and Jonny Evans were brilliant. Burnley test you by putting lots of diagonal balls into the box and they both dealt with it very well.

“Wes’s header was obviously brilliant. There was great power, strength and precision in his finish.”