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Marseille are the latest club reported to be targeting Leicester City’s record-signing Islam Slimani in the final days of the transfer window.

The French club have joined Monaco and Premier League pair Watford and Newcastle United in showing an interest in the 29-year-old Algerian.

Respected French media organisation L’Equipe report that Marseille want the former Sporting Lisbon centre-forward to give them more firepower. The club had promised fans in the south of France that a new striker was a priority.

Sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta is apparently keen on Slimani, whose agents are reportedly regulars at Marseille’s training ground. The Ligue 1 side are also interested in Celtic’s Moussa Dembele and Inter Milan’s Stevan Jovetic, who was on loan at Sevilla last season.

It was reported at the weekend that Slimani was also a target for rival French club Monaco, who were looking at the striker to replace Kylian Mbappe who is set for a massive £160million move to PSG in the next few days.

Watford and Newcastle are also said to want Slimani, with the Hornets having a reported £12m offer rejected by City.

If City are to sell, they will want to recoup as much of their £29m outlay as possible.

That would see Monaco in the box seat as they have already sold Bernardo Silva and Benjamin Mendy to Manchester City plus Tiemoue Bakayoko to Chelsea for a combined 150 million euros this summer – and that’s before the Mbappe deal.