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There may knock-on effects at the King Power Stadium, if the Foxes win their chase with Queens Park Rangers for a talented free agent

Leicester City and Queens Park Rangers are going toe-to-toe for a talented young Oxford United midfielder, and a Leicester victory could have knock-on effects at the King Power Stadium this summer.

Leicester City may have been relegated from the Championship at the end of the 2025-26 season, but their ambitions are such that they are in the market for players who will get them back to that level as quickly as possible.

The club's financial woes have been well-documented, but the club still have a not-insignificant advantage over their League One rivals on account of their Premier League parachute payments, which they will continue to receive next season despite a second successive relegation.

The upshot of this is that, as per a Football League World exclusive, the Foxes are locked in a battle with Queens Park Rangers for a talented young free agent released from another club who've just been relegated from the division, but if they're successful in this pursuit, it could have a significant knock-on effect for another young player who may have been hoping for the opportunity to prove himself in the Leicester team next season.

Leicester City are in a transfer battle with Queens Park Rangers for the services of Myles Peart-Harris

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As reported in a Football League World exclusive this week, Leicester City are locked in a battle with QPR over the former Oxford United attacking midfielder and winger Myles Peart-Harris.

Peart-Harris is available on a free transfer after leaving Oxford following their Championship relegation at the end of the 2025-26 season, and the appeal of this young star to other clubs is very clear indeed.

He has Premier League experience, having played four times in the top-flight for Brentford before his move to Oxford in the January transfer window, and has also been capped six times by England at under-16 level while also being an unused substitute for the under-17s in qualifying for the 2019 Under-17 European Championships.

Since he's not played a competitive match for the full England team, Peart-Harris is also entitled to switch his international allegiance, and was called up to the Jamaica under-23 team's training squad while on loan at Portsmouth during the 2023-24 season. There is, then, clearly a lot of talent in this young player, and it's understandable that clubs will be interested in his signature.

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Myles Peart-Harris's arrival at the King Power Stadium could spell trouble for Will Alves

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The arrival of Myles Peart-Harris at The King Power Stadium could cause problems for another young Leicester City player who has been biding his time for an opportunity to break into their first team.

There's no doubting that Will Alves is also a talented young player. Speaking in October 2023, the then-Leicester City manager Enzo Maresca described the then-18-year-old Alves as "something special." At that time, Alves had just started training with the Leicester first-team squad, having long been tipped among the hottest prospects in this corner of the East Midlands.

But Alves' opportunities in the Leicester first-team since then have been extremely limited. He's made just six appearances in their first team in total, five of which have come in the EFL Cup, while he spent much of the last two seasons on loan elsewhere, first at Cardiff City and then at Huddersfield Town.

The gifted winger displayed signs of real promise on loan with the Bluebirds as they suffered relegation out of the Championship, posting a goal and three assists in the second-half of the 2024/25 second-tier campaign after arriving on loan in January. His time at Huddersfield proved much more difficult and was severely disrupted by injuries, and Alves would struggle to make his mark in West Yorkshire with limited opportunities when fully fit, but that hasn't extinguished excitement and optimism that the playmaker could still live up to the billing with Leicester.

The big issue for Alves is that Peart-Harris plays on the wing or in an attacking midfield position, the exact positions that he plays. Alves may have been thinking that the one silver lining that might come from Leicester's relegation could be that he'd be given the opportunity to break into the first team in League One, but the arrival of this player dramatically hinders that likelihood.

Alves only signed a long-term contract with Leicester City in July 2025, tying him to the club until 2028, and at 21 years of age he has plenty of time to prove himself.