Town planning a brush with Foxes forward

patient, all the players are not our players.”

Okazaki has been limited to fleeting substitute appearances at the King Power this season.

Since signing in the summer of 2015 for £7m, he has made 81 starts and 48 substitute appearances in all competitions and scored 19 goals.

Five of those came in a sparkling start to last season when he grabbed a handful of goals in just eight appearances.

Okazaki – only the second Japanese player to collect a Premier League winners medal following Shinji Kagawa of Manchester United – played the last five minutes as a sub when Town were beaten 3-1 by Leicester at the King Power in September.

The tricky attacker has made just one Premier League start this season, in Leicester’s 1-1 draw at Brighton in November.

He started the EFL Cup matches against Fleetwood and Wolves earlier in the season and, most recently, was a starter in the FA Cup third round defeat by Newport County.

Town, of course, have added Jason Puncheon of Crystal Palace to their squad for the rest of the season, in addition to Tottenham prospect Jaden Brown, while allowing wingmen Collin Quaner (Ipswich), Ramadan Sobhi (Al Ahly) and Rajiv van La Parra (Middlesbrough) to leave on loan.

They are also trying to add further attacking reinforcements in a bid to mount a survival bid in the Premier League.

Meanwhile, keeper Ryan Schofield has joined League Two outfit Notts County on loan from the Terriers. The 19-year-old will spend the remainder of the campaign with the Magpies, who sit at the foot of fourth-tier table.

The loan move is Schofield’s first in the Football League, with the highly-rated England U20 international previously spending time at National League North sides AFC Telford United and FC United of Manchester.

Town see the move as an excellent opportunity for the young stopper, who joined his hometown club at U9 level and signed his first professional contract as a 17-year-old in December 2016.

The keeper, who won the 2017 Toulon Tournament with England’s U20s and saved a penalty against the Ivory Coast in the final, travelled to Bristol City with David Wagner’s first-team squad for the FA Cup third round clash last week, but did not make the bench.

Schofield’s Town contract runs until 2020, having signed a new deal in October 2018. On the gloveman signing for Notts County, Town

There is nothing significant to say. I don’t like to comment on individual names