The Algeria international winger handed in a transfer request in the final two days of the window, as City tabled several bids -- the highest of which reached £60m.

The Foxes rejected the offers, insisting that Philippe Coutinho's £142m move to Barcelona had changed the value of their star winger and that City would need to bid £95m.

A proposal featuring a £65m offer and a player in exchange was floated by Leicester, but City knocked that back and walked away from a deal for the second time in the window, failing to meet the financial demands of both a player, in Alexis Sanchez, and now the selling club in Leicester.