Sunday People

£12m Gray’s up for grabs

- By Neil Moxley

LEICESTER could lose Demarai Gray this summer for as little as £12million.

That is the buyout figure written into his Foxes contract.

And it has alerted Liverpool, Everton and Tottenham.

Gray, 20, has made 33 appearance­s for Leicester all told this season, but 21 of those have been as a substitute.

He is understood to be f rustrated by t he perceived lack of opportunit­ies to show what he can do from the start. from Birmingham for £3.5m in January 2016.

And after helping Leicester avoid the drop, he scooped the Premier League title in his first full season with the club.

Many of his outings last season were off the bench and it has been more of the same this term.

Since August, there has been frustratio­n all round at the King Power Stadium.

But following Craig Shakespear­e’s appointmen­t as boss, prospects for next term are bright.

Whether Gray will still be there then depend on the opportunit­ies he will get under Shakespear­e, or the club’s next fulltime boss, and any other club deciding to meet the clause in his contract.

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