Overview

• Leicester City have entered advanced talks with Queens Park Rangers to trigger the compensation clause in Marti Cifuentes’s exit agreement
• Sources say the £500,000 fee could be finalised by the end of the week, clearing the way for Cifuentes to take charge
• Cifuentes secured QPR’s Championship survival in 2023-24 and departed at the end of June following a fractious tenure
• Bo Svensson, Chris Wilder, Gary O’Neil and Danny Rohl were also under consideration but fell behind Cifuentes in evaluations
• Leicester value Cifuentes’s possession-based, high-pressing style honed at Hammarby IF as key to an immediate Premier League return